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Apple's top-tier large-screen smartphone released in 2025, serving as the preceding flagship generation to the iPhone 18 Pro Max.
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PCMag's week with the $1,299 phone found no outward change beyond new colours and an unchanged 6.43 by 3.07 by 0.34 inch body. The weight went up by half an ounce, and US models take eSIM only.
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Apple doubled the Neural Engine in the A20 Pro. In the one head-to-head Mashable ran, the new Pro Max and last year's model produced the same image in exactly the same time. That leaves battery and cooling as the upgrade case.
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Apple's three-device plan costs $20 a month while a single iPhone 17 Pro Max plan runs $14, so the switch pays for anyone holding two expensive phones. The eligibility rules stop at one Apple account in five countries.
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Samsung's mechanical R&D chief tells WIRED that weight is the entire game in foldables, and his phone is now lighter than the company's own slab flagship. The grams came out of the camera and the dust seal.
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IDC's own inputs put the foldable iPhone at roughly 1% of units and 4.4% of industry revenue, while the demand it wrote off in one forecast revision exceeds the entire foldable category.
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MacRumors reports the standard iPhone 18 slips to spring 2027, leaving September 2026 with three of Apple's most expensive phones and no volume model to sell.
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MacRumors reports the fifth iOS 27 beta changes the look of some app icons and adjusts Liquid Glass. Design work many teams treated as settled is still in motion.
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