Our first look at the iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max
There were two surprises for me when I picked up the iPhone 17 Pro. For one, the colors are bold - a nice change of pace from last year's barely-there pales. But the bigger surprise is just how much has changed about the back of the phone.
By all accounts, this still feels like an iPhone, with its soft matte aluminum frame. But the polished camera bar - always an underemphasized design element - now stretches across the back. And a detail I missed during the keynote is how the polished glass portion reappears across the center of the back of the device. There's a glossy square cutout where Apple is using its Ceramic Shield. This is apparent ...