Marques

Yeah.

and then doubling the base storage to 256 gigs.

Also didn't have to do that, but kept the price the same.

So now it's a better deal at 256 gigs than Pixel's base, than S25's base, than a lot of other phones.

And it's just become the easiest phone to recommend.

I had a couple people ask me like this year, oh, I'm due for an upgrade, like which phone should I recommend?

and you'd look at the lineup and you'd go, oh, you're staying with the iPhone?

Okay, I think, yeah, you could probably go with like an old 15 Pro or 16 Pro, or maybe you should get like a, I don't wanna recommend the base though.

You'll have a 60 Hertz phone for five more years.

Now it's just like, oh yeah, get the 17.

That's the one.

Super easy.

So yeah, iPhone 17 won it.

And my runner up was the Xiaomi 17 Pro.

I've talked a lot about it in this podcast already in the review.

I loved it.

The screen on the back is awesome.

It's a super complete phone.

It's never going to be on sale here in the U.S., but the fact that I got to test it, it impressed me a lot and it was definitely deserving.

And I always mention the phones that have spent the most time in my pocket in between reviews.