Apple Debuts the $599 iPhone 17E With MagSafe – and It Comes in Pink

An iPhone 17E is the followup to last year's $599 iPhone 16E.

Apple on Monday unveiled its newest budget phone, the iPhone 17E. Like last year, it starts at $599 (£599, AU$999), but it comes with 256GB of base storage -- double last year's entry-level iPhone 16E. Perhaps the biggest upgrade: the iPhone 17E supports MagSafe, so you can charge wirelessly faster and attach accessories like stands, wallets and cases.

Apple's latest-generation A19 chip powers the iPhone 17E, which is the same one found in the baseline iPhone 17. But there's a small caveat: the iPhone 17E has a quad-core GPU, versus five cores on the regular iPhone 17. Apple's C1X cellular modem is also on board, which the company says is twice as fast as the C1 ...