Somewhere between all the announcements, under the radar, one iPhone model has just become one of the best packages you can get and probably the best deal in the iPhone 17 series.
Apple’s „Awe Dropping“ event is now behind us, and boy oh boy did we get a lot of changes this time around. The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max now look radically different, and even though this „Extended Plateau“ design might not be everyone’s cup of tea, it’s indeed the biggest redesign in years.
Then we have a completely new model in the form of the iPhone Air. Some say it kind of replaced the iPhone Plus that hasn’t been selling all that well in the past couple of years. The Air also comes with a distinct design, and it’s very thin; that’s its thing.
But somewhere between those announcements, under the radar, one iPhone model has just become one of the best packages you can get and probably the best deal in the iPhone 17 series. Some of you might’ve already guessed it right—it’s the regular, or as we used to say, „vanilla“ iPhone 17.
The same price, lots of upgrades
This doesn’t happen all that often. The iPhone 17 retains its $799 starting price, despite all the rumors about a potential hike, due to Trump’s tariffs, economic headwinds, inflation, and whatnot.
Apple might’ve just shot itself in the leg with this, as the regular iPhone 17 now sits so close to the smaller Pro in terms of specs that many people might not see the need to dish out $300 more for the now more expensive upper model.
Let’s get to all the things you’re getting for your hard-earned $799.
More base storage
The obvious one is that the iPhone 17 now starts at 256GB base storage. And while Apple kind of used that argument to justify the price hike of the Pro, the company somehow managed to avoid increasing the price on the vanilla model.
Getting a 256GB flagship at $799 is pretty awesome, as both Samsung and Google ask the same for their respective 128GB models, the Pixel 10 and the Galaxy S25.
