Apple Debuts iPhone 17 With 6.3-Inch ProMotion Display and A19 Chip, Starting at $799
On September 9, 2025, Apple announced iPhone 17 at its headquarters in Cupertino, in Santa Clara County, California. The new phone has a 6.3-inch Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion for the first time on this model, entry storage doubled to 256GB, and a starting price of $799, with pre-orders beginning September 12 and availability on September 19.
The front camera is the biggest change: the new Center Stage front camera uses the first square front sensor on an iPhone, at up to 18MP, so users can take landscape selfies while holding the phone vertically, and group shots automatically widen the frame.
Both rear cameras are now 48MP: a Fusion Main camera with an optical-quality 2x Telephoto, and a new Fusion Ultra Wide camera capturing up to four times the resolution of the previous generation.
The display reaches 3,000 nits of peak outdoor brightness, the highest ever on an iPhone, and the Ceramic Shield 2 front cover offers three times better scratch resistance than the previous generation.
Inside is the A19 chip, built on third-generation 3-nanometer technology. Apple says video playback runs up to 30 hours, eight more than the previous generation, and the phone charges to 50 percent in 20 minutes with a high-wattage adapter. A new Apple-designed N1 chip enables Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6.
iPhone 17 comes in black, lavender, mist blue, sage and white, in 256GB and 512GB capacities. Kaiann Drance, Apple's vice president of Worldwide iPhone Product Marketing, called iPhone 17 a big upgrade that makes iPhone even more useful in day-to-day life.
(Source: Apple)
Source: Apple
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