I’ve upgraded to the 17 Pro!
I switched from my iPhone 13.
Price: Around ₹1.06 lakh
Exchange value: ₹24k
Card discount: None
And yes, I know exchange value doesn’t really lower the price, but hear me out.
My iPhone 13 was in pretty bad shape—it kept overheating, lagged, had some scratches, I had to replace the battery locally for ₹2k, the display wasn’t glued back properly after the replacement and it would die below 20% even though it showed 96% battery health.
I looked around at about 6–8 Croma/Reliance Digital stores earlier and the best offer I got was around ₹8k.
I tried one last Croma outlet, and their Cashify guy offered me ₹24k.
They only had one silver 17 Pro left because someone had cancelled their pre-booking—and silver was exactly what I wanted. (Yep, people were still pre-booking a year-old iPhone!)
The store was packed, people were still booking the 17 Pro and the whole billing + data transfer took almost 3 hours because the Wi-Fi was super slow.
I’ve been using it for about a week now, and strangely, it still feels very familiar. Since I transferred everything from my old phone, even the wallpaper and setup stayed the same—it basically feels like my iPhone 13, just much faster.
The 13 was aluminium, this is aluminium, and even though it’s 4 generations newer and a Pro, day-to-day it honestly doesn’t feel like some huge upgrade.
But yeah… I absolutely love the silver colour and the camera quality.
Miss the blue 13 tho
Anyone else upgraded from an older iPhone and felt the same?
If you don’t want telephoto and Lidar, I would suggest getting the basic 17 at the older price with good exchange value.