Ok, so yeah, more phones need this element
When the rumors of the iPhone 15 Pro having a titanium frame bubbled up last year, I was unconvinced. Not because I doubted the veracity of the near-constant spinning of the smartphone rumor mill, but because the use of titanium could be a marketing gimmick and a way to crank up the price of the next-gen iPhone and subsequent handsets that followed in its footsteps.
I was wrong.
There’s nothing like experiencing things firsthand, and once I got my hands on the iPhone 15 Pro Max my view of it and the use of titanium completely changed, to the extent that the iPhone 15 Pro Max stopped me from moving back to Android.
In simple terms, the use of titanium on the largest iPhone chassis not only made the phone notably lighter compared to the iPhone 14 Pro with its stainless steel frame, but also made what I considered to be a slightly-too-large iPhone into a device that’s far easier to wield. So suddenly, I’m a Max guy.
Having originally felt that I’d miss the heft of steel on the Pro iPhones, my view has flipped to the point that I now gently caress the somewhat soft-touch sides of the titanium-rocking iPhone 15 Pro Max. That, and the work Apple has put in to blend four color options into the metal, has made for an attractive phone that keeps what’s good about its predecessor’s design but refines it wonderfully.
