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Tom Pritchard

The new iPhone 17e could wind up fixing the iPhone 16e's biggest mistake

IPhone 16e on table with iPhone 16 and iPhone SE3.

The iPhone 16e was unlike any of the cheap iPhones we've seen before, mainly because it wasn't actually that cheap, thanks to Apple adding a lot of high-end hardware to the device. This enabled the 16e to run Apple Intelligence AI, for better or for worse.

Still, Apple needed to make some trade-offs versus its flagship phone, including one very important feature that Apple shouldn't have sacrificed: MagSafe wireless charging. Thankfully, rumors suggest that the iPhone 17e won't be falling into the same trap. Not only is the iPhone 17e expected to feature MagSafe, it's supposedly coming with the faster 25W MagSafe charging that debuted on iPhone 16 as well. That's exactly the kind of high-end feature cheap phones should be offering.

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