Apple iPhone 18 Pro vs. iPhone 17 Pro: To Upgrade or Not?
- Apple's iPhone 18 Pro launched with a $1,199 starting price, featuring a variable-aperture main camera and new A20 Pro chip as a largely iterative update over the iPhone 17 Pro.
- Powered by the new A20 Pro chip built on a 2nm process, the device delivers 40% faster graphics than the iPhone 17 Pro's A19 Pro while retaining the aluminum unibody and Ceramic Shield 2 design.
- Photographers can adjust the main camera's aperture manually between f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4.0, with Apple saying the f/1.48 setting provides 50 per cent better low-light performance.
- Testing shows the iPhone 18 Pro scoring 12,545 in multi-core Geekbench 7 benchmarks, achieving 34 hours of video playback, and reaching 50% charge in 15 minutes with a 60W adapter.
- Users on an iPhone 16 Pro or older will find the upgrade worthwhile, but those with an iPhone 17 Pro should likely skip it, as most improvements remain iterative rather than transformative.
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The evolutionary changes remained in the shadow of the Duo folding model.
The US computer company Apple has started selling its new iPhone-18 generation in Austria: iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max kick off, the iPhone Duo follows at the end of October. Visually, the new Pro-iPhones hardly differ from the previous year's models, but at the price already: If the iPhone 17 Pro Max was due 1450 euros, it is the successor in the basic version 1600 euros. What do you get for this sum? Krone+ tested the iPhone 18 Pro Max.
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Apple iPhone 18 Pro vs. iPhone 17 Pro: To Upgrade or Not?
With a $100 price bump for the iPhone 18 Pro, it's harder than ever to decide whether to trade in your 17 Pro for this year's model. Here's how they each stack up on specs, design, features, and, of course, value.
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