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So I have been living with the iPhone 17 Pro Max for about a full week now.

And look, you probably have already seen the early reviews from folks who got their

hands on this thing at launch.

But here's the thing

about iPhone reviews. You don't really know a phone until you've actually lived with it,

until you've taken it through your daily routine, you've charged it every night, or maybe

every other night with this one, and really pushed it to see what's new versus, well,

what's just marketing speak. And let me just say up front, this might be the

prettiest iPhone in years, but it's pretty enough. Well, let's talk about it. Okay, so Apple completely

redesigned this thing. And the first time you pick it up, you notice this new brushed aluminum

unibody with that camera plateau on the back, frankly, I think it's a

statement. The statement is basically, we're done with the camera bump conversation. Instead of a

bump, you now have this elegant plateau that actually creates more internal space for the battery.

I've got the deep blue color here, and in different lighting, it shifts from this kind of deep

navy to almost black. It's sophisticated in a way that I think recent iPhones haven't been.

That cosmic orange is apparently pretty wild, but the blue? Chef's Kiss.

Now, about that ceramic shield, too. Apple's claiming three times better scratch resistance on the front, and they've put ceramic

shield on the back for the first time.

After a week of tossing this in my pocket with keys, sliding it across tables, general

daily abuse, not a single micro-scratch, and that's actually pretty impressive given

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