Apple Just Announced a New ‘Affordable’ iPhone

If you’re in the market for a new iPhone, good news: Apple just announced one. Despite the company’s big event planned for Wednesday, it decided to drop some product news early, including its newest “affordable” phone, the iPhone 17e. While affordable certainly doesn’t mean “cheap,” the “e-series” offers most of what you’d expect in an iPhone with a price tag lot lower than $1,000.

At first glance, the new iPhone 17e looks remarkably like the iPhone 16e. That’s because the phones are functionally the same in design. You’ll still get the same 6.1-inch display with 800 nits of brightness (1200 nits for HDR); the same overall dimensions, minus an extra .08 ounces; the same IP68 water and dust resistance; a single camera on the back that supports 4K Dolby Vision video; and the same battery life (Apple says 26 hours of video playback). But though there are many similarities, that

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