Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup doesn’t deviate from the established family of sub-models that it’s maintained for the past few years. But every year, the differences between them change just a bit as the new generations of iPhone evolve.

Not sure which one is for you? I break down the major differences between them below.

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iPhone 17 vanilla

This is the base on which all other iPhone 17s are compared. Apple’s vanilla ice cream. But I’ve always argued that vanilla ice cream gets a bad rap. It’s not plain. If I have a hill to die on, it’s that you can always judge an ice cream shop by its vanilla ice cream.

Apple’s vanilla iPhone offers a lot of bang for the buck in its latest generation. Its Apple-designed A19 chip has a six-core CPU and five-core GPU. The 6.3

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