Mashable reviews Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max: ‘The mighty workhorse we needed’

Apple’s flagship iPhone 17 Pro Max
Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro Max offers a striking new design that delivers a dramatic leap in performance. It features the A19 Pro, the most powerful and efficient chip for iPhone yet, enabling the advanced camera systems, next-level mobile gaming, and Apple Intelligence.
Built with an Apple-designed vapor chamber that is laser-welded into a strong, light, and thermally conductive aluminum unibody, iPhone 17 Pro Max delivers Apple’s best-ever performance and an enormous leap in battery life. Three 48MP Fusion cameras — Main, Ultra Wide, and an all-new Telephoto — offer the equivalent of eight lenses, including the longest optical-quality zoom ever on iPhone at 8x, and the innovative 18MP Center Stage front camera takes selfies to the next level. With new industry-first video features built for pro filmmakers and content creators, including ProRes RAW, Apple Log 2, and genlock, iPhone integrates even more seamlessly into the largest and smallest of productions. iPhone 17 Pro Max features the Ceramic Shield 2 front cover with 3x better scratch resistance, and for the first time, Ceramic Shield protects the back of iPhone.
iPhone 17 Pro Max is available in three beautiful new finishes — deep blue, cosmic orange, and silver.
Stan Schroeder
 for Mashable:
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I’ve spent about a week with the new iPhone 17 Pro Max (Apple also sent me the iPhone 17 Pro, but I’m still fully testing that one), and I was thrilled with the phone’s long battery life, excellent cameras, and, simply, the fact that this is the iPhone that has it all. It’s the right phone for me, the tech nerd…
You can spec the Pro with up to 2TB of storage, which I think makes sense exclusively for video creators. I’ve tested the variant with 1TB, but I could easily make do with half as much…
The 17 Pro Max is the best iPhone, period. It has a large, beautiful display, excellent cameras, and long battery life. If you can afford it, buy it. The only potential drawbacks worth considering are the size and the weight… The iPhone 17 Pro has almost exactly the same specs, but it’s smaller and lighter, making it a better fit for some people.

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MacDailyNews Take: The iPhone 17 Pro Max is the flagship iPhone for a reason – all other iPhones and, of course, iPhone knockoffs, cower in its prodigious shadow!

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