Apple iPhone 17e
Apple iPhone 17e
MagSafe and the A19 chip are both fine upgrades over the 16e, but most should pay £200 more for the iPhone 17
PRICE 256GB,
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Let’s start with the two biggest reasons to like the Apple iPhone 17e. First, Apple has not only stuck to the same £599 starting price as the 16e (see issue 368, p62) but has doubled the base storage to 256GB. Doubling that to 512GB costs a staggering £799, moving it into iPhone 17 territory (see issue 375, p70), so either way you’re saving £200 versus the big seller.
Both the 17 and 17e feature Apple’s excellent A19 chipset, and that means spectacular performance. The only difference between the two is a four-core GPU in the iPhone 17e versus five cores for its sibling. You can see how bright the 17e shines in the graphs in our Samsung S26 review (see p76). It’s particularly triumphant in games, as shown by the leap from the 16e’s 11,904 in 3DMark Wild Life Original Unlimited to 18,553 here. On loading up Diablo Immortal, I loved how it handled all the complex lighting whenever I cast spells or unleashed huge attacks.