11:14 AM PDT · September 9, 2025
Apple launched nan iPhone 17 Pro and nan iPhone 17 Pro Max coming pinch a caller creation and an upgraded camera system.
The devices are powered by nan caller A19 Pro chipset and person a larger battery, Apple said. Plus, it noted that eSIM-only models will person a somewhat larger artillery arsenic compared to Pro models pinch beingness SIMs.
The caller Pro phones person an aluminium unibody alternatively of nan titanium utilized successful nan erstwhile year’s iPhone.
The institution said it designed a caller vapor enclosure thermal strategy on pinch nan caller unibody.
The institution is upgrading nan telephoto camera from a 12-megapixel sensor to a 48-megapixel sensor. With nan sensor change, users will beryllium capable to get an 8x optical zoom. This is 1 of nan highest optical zoom capacities connected nan market, pinch nan Vivo X200 offering 8.7x optical zoom pinch its periscope kit.
Apple is offering 40x integer zoom. This is little than 100x offered by Google aliases Samsung, but it is not clear if Apple is doing integer regeneration utilizing AI for illustration those companies.
All of this is housed by a caller rectangular camera barroom covering nan full width of nan backmost of nan iPhone.
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The selfie camera is besides getting an upgrade from a 12-megapixel to an 18-megapixel sensor. Apple will now besides let for a video signaling from some nan beforehand and nan backmost camera simultaneously.
The iPhone 17 Pro starts astatine $1,099 and nan iPhone 17 Pro Max starts astatine $1199.
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