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I Tested the iPhone 17 Pro Max. It's Part Midlife Crisis and Part Battery-Life King

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9.2 / 10

Score

iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max

Pros

  • The 17 Pro Max's incredible battery life
  • The brighter screen looks fantastic
  • Center Stage camera with the ability to take landscape selfies vertically is sweet

Cons

  • Wished Dual Capture had a 50/50 split
  • Live Translation's Siri voice can overlap with speakers'
  • iPhone 17 Pro battery life is on par with the iPhone 16 Pro

Editor's note: The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max come with a major redesign. Gone is the titanium-and-glass sandwich approach of previous Apple Pro phones. In its place is an aluminum unibody that wraps around and covers most of the back. The phones come with a new high-resolution telephoto camera, a killer new selfie camera and a battery that earned the highest marks of any phone we tested for battery life. The iPhone 17 Pro won a CNET Lab Awardas...

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