iPhone 17 Pro Max 6 Months Later

the iPhone 17 Pro. Oh jeez, what a way to start a video. Well, I have had almost six months with this phone, and for the last six months, it has remained caseless. No screen protector, just a bare slab of soft aluminum and breakable glass. In that time, this phone has survived multiple drops. It has been subject to many surfaces much harder than its shell. It was with me when I crawled under a giant tent on the beaches of Miami. It has been set down on concrete from the docks of the Javit Center in New York City all the way to the docks at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. It has fallen into the hot tub more than twice and onto my tile floor more than that. And also once again, if you want to hear the other me talking during this video, and I promise I won't keep doing this in every video forever, you can go down to the settings gear icon on YouTube and change the audio track to Cllingon. I bought this phone 160 days ago, but according to my battery health meter, I've only had to charge it 118 times, but charging it isn't exactly what that number means. I don't charge this overnight. I carry around one of these big batteries with me most of the time. This is an unreleased one from Ankor. I can't even talk about it yet. Isn't that fun? But just like throughout the day, I will charge my phone at the desk a little in my truck a little on the couch with the battery here and there. I have it set in the settings to only charge up to 80%. And I never really see it go down below 20%. But this counter is measuring basically how many watt hours have gone in and out of this port. So I have charged and discharged this phone fully the equivalent of 118 times. Which also means that the battery in this is good enough that if I did charge it to full overnight, I would still be in the 30% range when I went to bed. Whether that's a testament to Apple's new battery or my own personal screen time discipline, we may never know. God, I got hooked on this brain deadad Gear Defenders game. It is so stupid. I just waste time. I throw it away. and time is the most valuable resource any of us have. I want to stay on the battery for just a second because for me, one of the biggest quality of life upgrades going to this phone, and I don't even think it's an exaggeration to say this is the best upgrade of any iPhone entirely is the fact that this phone can charge at literally double the wattage of any previous iPhone. You can pump 40 watts into this phone for the first 50% of the charging process. And I know the OnePlus and the suspiciously named Xiaomi 17 Pro Max can charge even faster. And that's great. That's actually good. Competition is good. And it is objectively good that all these phones can charge really fast. This phone can charge very fast compared to all other iPhones. So if Sarah comes in here and surprises me and she's like, "Oh, hey, we're going to Disney in 10 minutes." And I look down and I only have 20% on the phone. I can just plug it into any reasonably highowered USBC charger. And a shout out to this very fun and attractive little anchor wall wart. This thing's got a screen. It shows you the wattage and the percentage. And it even somehow knows what phone it's plugged into. So clearly it's communicating with the phone. But anyway, in 10 minutes time, my phone went from 20% all the way up to 42% which is plenty to get me through the rest of the day. And if you want it to go even faster and get even more charge in a shorter period of time, you can get a little crafty. And with one of these little magnetic thermal electric coolers, it sticks right onto the back of the phone. So, heat is the reason your phone charging will slow down. So, if you charge your phone in a hot car, it's going to charge slower than if you charge it in an airconditioned room. If I can keep the battery cooler, notice how now when I'm charging the battery from 20 to 40%, the first time it started out by giving the phone almost 40 watts and then it dropped all the way down into the 20s. But with one of these things on, it'll just stay at 38 watts all the time. It'll charge this thing all the way up to, I think, 80% maybe at 38 watts. And the new OS will even give you a little time to charge to 80%. So, the phone controls how much electricity it lets in. And when it heats up, it turns that knob down. So, if we can keep the phone super cool, and I ran the phone all the way back down to 20%, so I could do this test again with the thermal electric cooler on. In those same 10 minutes, I can crank this battery from 20% all the way up to 46%. Which really isn't as much more as I thought it would be more. I might have started at 19 instead of 20. Whatever. Cooler phone charges faster, but the 17 charges faster than everything else anyway. Anyway, aluminum. And I don't know if the responses I saw were just the loudest people overreacting because I'm on Reddit a lot, or if people just really hate the mere thought of an aluminum body compared to the previous titanium edges on an aluminum frame they used for the 15 and 16. But let's take a really close-up look at mine. Because yes, aluminum is a soft metal. You can actually cut aluminum with a regular wood saw without wrecking the blade. But it's a high performance metal. For one, its softness dampens impact. Titanium's super hard, so when you hit something, that entire impact gets transferred straight to the glass. You're way more likely to break the glass. Aluminum deforms a little bit if you drop it, which saves it from breaking the glass. Aluminum's ability to transfer heat from the inside to the outside of the phone is between 10 and 30 times better than titanium. That's up to 3,000% better, if that number is easier to digest, depending on the secret alloys they use for each. People seem to want to argue that the fancy vapor chamber they put inside the 17 Pro and Max are the only reason that it's better at heat rejection. And to those people, I must ask, have you ever worn a jacket? Cuz my body is liquid cooled. My blood is moving heat around all over the place in here. It's really good at it. Similar to a vapor chamber and aluminum chassis. But if you wrap that chassis in glass and titanium, the human equivalent of putting on a hoodie, glass and titanium are both essentially insulators, at least when compared to aluminum. So, the fact that this phone has moved to using aluminum and not just for the sides, this entire back top part is aluminum. This is specifically what makes that vapor chamber work. Thanks to those brave souls who tore this thing apart so I don't have to. We know that the entire computer assembly is up within this camera plateau. So, the heat is primarily generated in the most aluminum section of the whole getup. Whatever performance gains this thing has over the 16 Pro are literally due to aluminum and the new processor. But the new processor would have got too hot. Like how the 16 was way too often way too hot to reach its full potential. That last processor was really good, too. Anyway, I went a little long on my aluminum fanboying. Yes, it's soft. My phone has some wear on it. Didn't change colors, though. Here is a disgustingly close-up look at my iPhone 17 Pro Max after 5 months of never being in a case at all. The edges of this plateau have become shiny, and I got dangerously close to cracking the sapphire crystal on that camera lens there. When you look closely at the edges, you can see where it survived the drops. But generally, ship shape. I dare say that even just from across the desk here from your vantage point, you would never look at this phone and be like, "Oh, that thing is beat up." Further, I'd like to take a closer look at some of my other daily professional tools and and scrutinize the condition of their edges. This is my Sony A7S3. It's still running cuz it's my B camera, and I didn't want to cut the footage up because it'd be harder to line up with the other footage later. This is a $3,500 camera. And can you believe they made this thing's body out of a magnesium alloy? The Nerve. You'll never guess what magnesium alloy is good at and at what cost. That's right, great heat dissipation with a fairly soft metal. Professional equipment, professional performance in a package you can easily dent and scratch, or easier than steel and titanium at least. My bag has had so much damage that I've sent this back to Filson twice cuz they do like free repairs for life. And I feel like they were making some sort of statement the last time they sent it back with this amount of stitching around all of the edges. This wasn't there when you bought the bag. It's not what it's supposed to look like. And like where the handles attach, they just went hog wild. But my point here is that Pro Gear is for using, not for keeping shiny and new. It's not a piece of jewelry. Your camera's not a piece of jewelry. Your phone's not a piece of jewelry. Or if you want a phone that is a piece of jewelry, get that new iPhone 17 Air. That's what it's for. It's pretty. This is not an ad break. For real. I'm testing this unreleased kind of expensive but super specked out product from Ug. It's a NAS. It's a home server. And one of the tests I'm running is a Minecraft server. I didn't realize that screen shut off, but it's actually been running or it should have been running in the background this whole time. I mentioned it briefly in the description of my last couple of videos. That's my Minecraft world running right now. A whole universe right inside this little box. Please, if you have Minecraft Java or you want to download it, come join us. build a little house in my downtown area or mindlessly dig in the ground for diamonds, whatever. The server address will be in the description of this video. I just want to stress this thing out. I want to get a bunch of people in here. So, when I release this video and for the next couple hours and then why don't we just say also at Saturday at noon, this upcoming Saturday, I'll be in there messing around. Come see me in Minecraft and not unplug anything while I set this. So, after 6 months with this phone, I have a few things. Now that we have 48 megapixels available on all three lenses, if you actually use your phone for taking pictures, you've got less limitations. That's a good thing. The cameras have been very good on iPhones for a long time. They're even a little better now. That's great. I've only really made actual use of the 8x lens a couple of times, but it's pretty handy to have. Most recently, I was in the car with Joe and the car in front of us had this little logo in the back of their bumper. And we're old and our old eyes couldn't make out what it said. So, I whipped out the old 8x lens and blammo. This is strangely clear and zoomed in for something I literally couldn't see with my eyes and shot while driving a car. So, my hands were definitely a little shaky. Don't get me wrong, it's not a good picture. It is chalk full of machine learning upscaling. But the point was I couldn't read what that said. And with this, I can zoom all the way into it. And that said, I would never put a little emblem like this on my car. That dealer would have to really have left an impression on me for me to advertise for them. Take your dealer license plate frames off, everybody. They look dumb. I don't really notice the faster processor, but I guess I don't really use my phone like a computer, and I only really ever play those really terrible, primitive, time sucking games that probably only use about 10% of this thing's capabilities. I think phone CPU and GPU has peaked. It's not true. They'll keep making them faster, but there is no reason to have this fast of a processor. This thing is faster than I think the M3 Air processor. >> I think CPU and GPU for phones has peaked. >> I really don't think we need to be able to play Witcher 4 on our phone at full resolution. Who plays real crazy big video games on a phone? That's absurd. Get a PlayStation. >> Goodbye. >> Goodbye. But I suppose the newest processor is also the most efficient one, which goes in favor for less heat. And oh man, does this phone heat up less than its predecessors. And you might be fooled right when you first get it. Like if you just got this phone and you're watching this video, it might feel like it's a little hot. And that's because when you first set up your phone, it's going to reindex everything. It's going to do its little AI scraping on your thousands of photos and contacts. So, just ignore what it feels like for the first entire 24 hours of owning this phone. It doesn't really take 24 hours unless you don't give it power or Wi-Fi. But after that, in general use, this phone runs much cooler. My old phone would always dim when I had it like on a car mount and the sun would hit it occasionally. This one doesn't do that. It charges much cooler. Actually, to be more precise, this phone is way better at rejecting heat. It actually probably makes more heat, but it's able to get rid of the heat it produces much, much faster than its predecessors, which is a really good thing for battery life. and performance and future proofing. It is legitimately less breakable. I'm clumsy and I don't use a case. I broke the screen on my iPhone 16 Pro like three times. The battery being bigger plus it charging faster are such big leaps that for me that's a reason all by itself to switch to this phone. If this phone was exactly like the 16 but made out of aluminum with a bigger battery that charges faster, that would be just plenty of reason for me to upgrade. I do not think that people should upgrade to every phone model when it comes out. you should upgrade when they release something that actually changes your own experience in a noticeable way. And that battery for me is that way. I also noticed this pairs with my truck's CarPlay a lot easier, but that could easily be very specific to the Ford Maverick and not true across the board. Oh, and using it as a hot spot. This phone will always immediately connect with my laptop. My last phone, it seemed like every third time I tried to use the hotspot, I would end up restarting the phone, restarting the computer, turning Wi-Fi off and on, and one of those things would eventually make it work, which was annoying. But this has been super consistent. The iPhone 17 Pro is a really good upgrade. Get this one, skip the next few, or get the next few. I am not in any position to give financial advice. Sarah and I spend most of our money. It is insane. Mark all I got. It's a good phone.

To hear what the background me is saying, go to settings (the gear icon) and change the audio track to Klingon. If you hear the background track initially, that means you came from my last video, THANK YOU! But switch it back to English to hear the main video. I have had the iPhone 17 Pro Max for 6 months now. Here is what I think about it. Aluminum is soft, pliable and super duper good at moving heat around. The latter outweighs the former, and actually it being less hard is good for not breaking glass, too! To Join The Minecraft server hosted in my studio: 108.254.26.72:25565 That little anker charger: https://amzn.to/4uiM4Un UGREEN has one too, more power, less data: https://amzn.to/3OFv7TF My Overpriced Subscriber Counter: https://amzn.to/403Rqot iPhone 17 Pro Max: https://amzn.to/4rAkDDw The Thermal Electric Cooler: https://amzn.to/3MX4uZH Join this channel to REALLY help me super charge this thing: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_lGMZMTN7Oh9DRKV2eaMtg/join