Iphone 17 drops to €878 on aliexpress and wipes the floor with the fresh 17e
Someone at Apple’s pricing desk just blinked. The 256 GB iPhone 17—still the Cupertino workhorse that pros actually want—has been slashed to €878 on AliExpress Spain with the voucher code ASE70, a figure that undercuts even last month’s refurb offers and makes the newly-launched iPhone 17e look like an overpriced cousin.
Why the 17 still beats the 17e where it hurts
The numbers are blunt. The 17e ships with a 60 Hz panel and last year’s A18 brain. The 17, meanwhile, keeps the 6.3-inch Super Retina XDR OLED ticking at 120 Hz, spikes outdoor brightness to 3,000 nits and marries it to a 3 nm A19 SoC whose 16-core Neural Engine chews through on-device AI models without breaking a sweat. Translation: smoother scrolling, faster night-mode renders, longer relevance.
Camera? Dual 48 MP Fusion sensors, both with hardware-level ray-tracing pipelines, leave the 17e’s single 48 MP unit hunting for light. Add 4K Dolby Vision on the 24 MP front lens and TikTok creators suddenly have a cinematic rig in their pocket—no cage rig required.
Battery life that laughs at transatlantic flights
Apple’s spec sheet claims 30 hours video playback; real-world drain tests by Spanish outlet Nota91 show 28.4 h at 200 nits, Wi-Fi off, 5G on. The 3,700 mAh cell reclaims 50 % in 20 minutes with a 30 W brick and still snaps magnetically to MagSafe pucks. Try that on the 17e’s 20 W ceiling.
Connectivity is future-proofed to the hilt: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, second-gen Ultra Wideband—chips that won’t be obsolete before your carrier sunsets 4G.
Stock evaporates in hours, not days
AliExpress has moved 1,400 units since the flash sale went live at 00:00 CET. Warehouse inventory visible to sellers dropped from 3,200 to 1,800 in the six hours it took Madrid commuters to finish their first coffee. When the counter hits zero the code dies; Apple authorised resellers are forbidden from price-matching Chinese imports.
Bottom line: if you want Apple’s current sweet spot without paying Pro Max ransom, pull the trigger now. Tomorrow the same SKU reverts to €1,129—and the 17e will still be yesterday’s compromise masquerading as news.