Lots of feedback from the community so thats always good. Im an Apple fan and have been since forever.

There are great deals on iPhone 16 range now, and you dont have to work to get them. JB, Noels, PBTech - all have something like $180-200 off. Every little counts of course.

Going from 11 to anything new will be huge - 16 or 17 - so dont be distracted by the promise of that new. You can be confident the 17 will be full price when available in NZ.

My wife uses a 16 promax and its terrific for battery/pic quality/speed etc.

Personally I stopped getting newest release kit straight away some years ago - my experience having in that game in an earlier career is that early production runs have higher chance of quality failure, and its usually prudent to wait until its been in prod for some months. With Apple I had that experience with the 10.5" ipad pro which had 3 failures over its life, and various phones that just suffered early run annoyances i couldnt be bothered with.

16 will run for donkeys years.