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Roland Moore-Colyer

Aluminum and the iPhone 17 Air sounds like a poor recipe for clumsy people like me

IPhone 16 Pro Desert Titanium in hand.

At first, I wasn’t sold on the idea of titanium being used in phone chassis, dismissing it as a bit of a marketing gimmick rather than a truly useful feature. But then I spent time with the iPhone 15 Pro Max, Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, and then their successors, the iPhone 16 Pro Max and Galaxy S25 Ultra, made me a titanium convert

My 180-degree turn in opinion about titanium stems from my habit of not using cases for flagship phones, as part of my appreciation for slick industrial design. This doesn't mix with an inherent clumsiness and bad luck that often sees these expensive phones take a plunge towards hard floors and surfaces in one way or another.

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