The big hardware upgrade is the new telephoto camera, which features a 4x / 100mm (equiv.) F2.8 lens. This is a notable change from the 5x / 120mm (equiv.) F2.8 lens on the iPhone 16 Pro.

The iPhone 17 models have much longer battery life than the iPhone 16 models, with the exception of the iPhone Air because there's no

Both Samsung and Apple are making strong plays for your pocket. We pit the new iPhone 17 against the tested Galaxy S25 to see which one comes out on top.

That's not the only thing, though. The iPhone 17 comes with a newer chip that should provide stronger performance, as well as a minimum of 256GB of internal storage, twice that of the iPhone 15's cheapest variant. There are, needless to say, camera improvements too, but we'll get to those in a bit.

Apple debuted its latest baseline phone with some changes across the battery, display and cameras. Is it worth the upgrade?