{"id":10262,"date":"2025-10-03T19:01:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10262"},"modified":"2025-10-03T19:01:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T18:01:52","slug":"pro17-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/2025\/10\/03\/pro17-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro17 &#8211; Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-content\/F727B872-B5F5-49FA-8413-70DBC4344876-1-300x288.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10333\" \/>My old phone started showing some issues after five years. The battery was getting worse by the day. The charging cable no longer fit properly, and I had to patiently insert it the right way or otherwise, I\u2019d end up with a dead phone. The memory was full, and I could only install new updates after clearing out all my photos. I definitely wasn\u2019t having an optimal user experience, so it was time for an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>After some thought I decided to go for the top of the line, and I got myself a crisp new iPhone 17 Pro! I have been using my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leiden365.nl\/blog\/?p=10234&#038;lang=en\">new phone<\/a> for about a week, and I am quite happy with it. Here are the key highlights.<\/p>\n<p>The positive points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One hand<\/strong>: I can still operate it with one hand. Some corners are a bit hard to reach, but I can do it. The missing button, compared to my previous phone, is not really a problem.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Speed and battery life<\/strong>: The phone is really fast, and it works a long long time with its battery<\/li>\n<li><strong>Design<\/strong>: It looks pretty good, I&#8217;m happy with the phone\u2019s aesthetics, and inside its cover it doesn&#8217;t tip over when it is lying on my desk and I click the screen.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Screen<\/strong>: A bit bigger so that is good, although I really did not mind the smaller screen and the button that I used to have.<\/li>\n<li><strong>At night<\/strong>: Pictures really capture a nighttime image as it looks to me, with all the light sources and details. The phone knows when you are making a shot at night, and it tells you to hold the phone still a couple of seconds. My old phone simply shot a black image, where you would see nothing, which was always quite disappointing.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Favorite new thing<\/strong>: I love the dual mode video option, where you get a video with the both the front and back camera. Great for small youtube clips.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What I did not like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Overly flashy<\/strong>: The interface might look good, but for me it did not work. I turned off most animations and turned off the always-on option, which I was looking forward to, but eventually just ended up frustrating me because it seemed like the phone would not turn off.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hiccups<\/strong>: Sometimes things are not working right away (or I am doing it wrong). They were not intuitive enough, and that is exactly what iOS should be. I had problems turning on the flashlight and turning on the camera, both buttons available on the very first screen, and this should be simple, but frustatingly I did not get it to work every time I wanted to.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Redoing old stuff<\/strong>: I had to re-add all my bank cards to my wallet, and re-authorize all my bank apps. Probably to make sure it was still really me, but it was a bit troublesome because I needed passwords I had not used in five years. Another pain was that all my time based authenticators stopped working and had to be recreated.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Imperfect fit<\/strong>: I normally carry my phone in my pant pocket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overall I&#8217;m happy. I feel like for the next couple of years I will have a good phone. It&#8217;s really very fast, but I doubt I really need this speed. My old phone was clearly slower, but it was enough for me. The best point is the new battery, I went for charging my phone three times a day to a phone that just keeps working for two days, and a quick charge is enough to keep it working for a day more. I did have to turn off all the fancy graphical effects, and turn on low-power mode, but that gave me exactly what I wanted. A phone I can use when I need it.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old phone started showing some issues after five years. The battery was getting worse by the day. The charging cable no longer fit properly, and I had to patiently insert it the right way or otherwise, I\u2019d end up with a dead phone. The memory was full, and I could only install new updates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leiden365.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}