We’re at the start of another one of those weeks where Apple announces one or two of its smallest products every day. The first pair to break the cover is and with more due to drop as the calendar rolls forward. The iPhone 17e is the most interesting gadget, especially since the price remains the same as for the iPhone 16e. Apple charges $599 for the 17e, though the base model’s storage doubles to a welcome 256GB.

The 17e also gets a lot of features that were held back from last year’s equivalent budget handset. The most notable is probably the addition of MagSafe to Qi2 speeds, which enables users to wirelessly charge their device at 15W. Nerds will also find Apple’s spec-list C1X proprietary wireless chip, which offers the same speed as the Qualcomm models it will eventually replace, but with better power efficiency.

The iPad Air, by comparison, is the very model of a modern major iterative spec revision to keep it up to date. The M3 has been upgraded to an M4, and it gets the same home grown wireless chips (), it is blessed with Wi-Fi 7 compatibility. Apple also added some more RAM to the iPad Air, increasing it from 8GB to 12GB, but without adding any price figures.

As someone who is still holding an iPhone 14, the generous storage and low cost of the iPhone 17e is impressive. And it’s a much more attractive package than anything Apple has tried to offer .

— Dan Cooper

Other big stories this morning

Modularity! For! The others! Reason!

Lenovo rocked MWC to showcase a allowing users to push their keyboard and display preferences. The company says you can set up your desk’s hardware to suit your needs at any time. So, if you need a standard laptop, you can do that, or you can put a second display where your keyboard goes and use your keyboard wirelessly. Unfortunately, it’s a concept, so while you can purr at Lenovo’s engineering prowess you won’t shell out any money to own this thing.

Sources described the unit as ‘adorable.’

Honor did the usual full-court press at MWC, but the star of its own performance was due to launch later this year. It is a smartphone with its own articulating camera gimbal that can move around in response to its user’s commands. The Morning After’s own Mat Smith says it can shake and nod its, uh, “head,” and can even dance along to music. And that’s before you get into its actual function, you know, taking pictures and stuff.

The combined ParaSkyWarDisco will serve 200 million subscribers.

Paramount Sky CEO David Ellison outlined his vision for his latest toy, Warner Brothers Discovery. He told investors that both companies would which gives it a global audience of close to 200 million subscribers. Ellison also promised to give HBO operational independence, hopefully not staffed entirely by patronage appointees.

Too many things for one newsletter.

MWC is such a huge show that it’s impossible to cover everything we report on in one newsletter. But thanks, especially for all the big phones you won’t find on US store shelves.