Price aside I’m not feeling this new look. If anything I’d go regular 17, assuming the rumors are true and it gets a higher refresh rate.
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iPhone 17 Pro to Start at $1,049 With Doubled Base Storage
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So $50 more for anyone who was buying the base, but $50 less for anyone who was buying 256 GB.
Whilst I don't support the price rises, most people that buy these devices will offset them on a 4-year monthly contract and not really notice the price increase. Marketers will also sell it as a $50 price cut for the 256gb model.
Hopefully Apple have some surprises up their sleeves like a telephoto lens and desktop-out.
Hopefully Apple have some surprises up their sleeves like a telephoto lens and desktop-out.
I agree. And at that price point there is less price sensitivity, $100 doesn't feel that much.
i.e. whereas $599 for the 16e feels a lot more than $500 (imho the ideal price for it, given the competition).
Not that I'm advocating for Apple to put up their prices more, but just agreeing with you - the 100 increments seem way way more Apple-y.
Unpopular opinion: Lumia 800 was my favourite phone design of all time. Not counting folding phones, no one since that has proven that it’s possible to design a nice looking phone that’s not just an iPhone ripoff.
Yep, I’ve been saying all along that the iPhones are about $50-$100 too expensive, not just the 16e* as people have been complaining about price-wise, but all of the iPhone line. Furthermore, 256 GB makes sense for the base Pros.
I’m not expecting the non-Pro lines to go down in price just yet*, but bringing down the Pro 256 GB models by US$50 would be a good start, even if the US$999 128 GB Pro tier is eliminated.
*The iPhone 16e temporarily dropped by CA$200 just weeks at Wal-Mart Canada after I bought it. Doh!
This essentially never happens here, so I guess 16e sales were tepid at full retail price. Decent phone though, and IMO a better value in several ways than the CA$100 more expensive 15 non-Pro.
Subconsciously hinting at one innit 🤣🤌🏻
Or at that useless wallet one can attach
I am so used to Foldable prices now (I am on my 3rd), anything below 1,5k still seems "okay" to me nowadays 🫣
I thought that too but made a mockup and it doesn't look odd without it. It's very different from their current design language, especially the fade is very 'trendy' and I feel it will look dated quite quickly.
This is useless if they don’t do a 2TB storage tier
I need to know if I am skipping this year or not
I need to know if I am skipping this year or not
Haha. Exactly. The fact that I didn't think "Oh, my Fold 7 cost me $2,000" says a lot. It just seems normal now since I've had quite a few foldables over the years.
An iPhone 16 Pro with 256 GB of storage is currently $1099. I'll take the bump in storage for $50 less than it would cost for the current model. And a far cry from the "more than $1400" this site said the Pro model could cost due to tariffs.
Interesting point that the phone has technically gotten cheaper. Adjusted for inflation, even more so, I suppose.
Only "technically" the Pro gets $50 "cheaper", because storage prices are meanwhile way, way cheaper than they were f. e. year(s) ago! [edit] ...and even then storage was way cheaper than Apple asked us for!
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Tim Apple just wants more money in his pocket. He just wants high profit margin. The prices will increase for rest of the world to cover the US tariff. 😂
Anyone remember when you could buy a decked-out iPhone for $700 fifteen years ago? The base iPhones were like $400. And even back then people thought this was crazy expensive.
They didn’t just convert the American price, they showed the cost in Germany and then added a conversion to give Americans an idea of the impact of that price increase in their native land.