Have you seen Apple’s new iPhone 17 Pro design? Don’t you love it? After all, it’s the first thing you see when you open the phone’s product page to learn more about its latest flagship. There it is, in all its heat-forged aluminum glory — sorry, titanium, but your time has passed. Apple touts this new design as being its most powerful yet, so there must be some magic to this aluminum shell.

And honestly, I think it looks pretty good. I like the bold colors, the seamlessness of the unibody shell, and I’ll admit the camera plateau is growing on me. There’s just one problem: Scratchgate. The new iPhone 17 series is picking up scratches like no other, forcing me to consider a break from my no-case lifestyle to keep my phone presentable.

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