KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 -- This review is nearly a month late but I've got two good reasons why.

The first is I got very sick (again) with a two-week long respiratory infection and as soon as I recovered, I was travelling up north to see a friend I missed very, very much.

So I took the iPhone 17e with me, to Kota Kinabalu on a plane, then to George Town, on a train.

I needed to answer the question; would the iPhone 17e be enough for many people or would the unbearable FOMO make people regret it once September came around?

Practical, but less of a compromise

The future looks scarily bleak right now but I will tell you from decades of experience that you might regret just settling on the cheapest, most easily available phone.

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