iPhone 17e hands-on: nothing more, nothing less

The iPhone 17e in black.

Apple announced the $599 iPhone 17e earlier this week, and we just got a chance to play with one for a few minutes at the company’s “experience” for media in New York City.

The 17e is more or less exactly what you’d expect – a cheaper, simpler riff on the iPhone 17 that replaces the similarly stripped down iPhone 16e in Apple’s lineup. It comes in black, white, and pink, and the main compromise is really the display: it’s a very basic 6.1-inch display 60Hz screen that doesn’t have the Dynamic Island or ProMotion or anything. The only real upgrade to the screen is that is now has Apple’s Ceramic Shield 2 coating for improved scratch resistan …

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