Is it just me buying the 8 then?

[Strelok]

I'll probably end up going for the 8 Plus, don't really want to deal with the X supply issues and I don't want to be the first to test out FaceID. I'll most likely end up getting the OLED version next year though. I wish they put OLED in the iPads 🙁

 

[eyedoc2020]

The iPhone 7 starts at $649, the iPhone X is rumored to cost around $1000 so it's probably at least $350. That's taking it past the point where it makes any sense to me. At the end of the day it's only a bloody smartphone. 😉

I agree entirely.

And if I really need OLED and a bezelless display I can get an unlocked S8 for $575

 

[Vanilla35]

Even though being in the OLED iPhone camp for 95% of the time, I may end up going with the 7S model. No pro motion is a very big deal breaker to me. Not appreciative of Face ID/lack of Touch ID, and OLED is not an end all be all for me, as I actually really like the LCD screen.

12MP shooter on the iPhone 8 is the same as the 7S. Basically, you get a higher resolution screen, 3GB ram, and then added software features. Not that big of a deal tbh.

Now next year the OLED phone will get a 16MP shooter, and most likely pro motion. If that's the case, I'll upgrade after 1 year to that phone.

 

[MrGimper]

I hope the 8 and the 8 plus are a redesign to some extent too. If not, then for 4 of its 10 years of existence, the iPhone will have looked the same (6, 6s, 7, 8)

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

£1.36 per day. And that's not taking into account the cash you'll get when you sell it after two years.

Doesn't sound too bad to me considering how much I use my smartphone.

People spend many thousands on a car which spends the majority of its time sitting on a driveway/in a car park, so £1,000 for a top-of-the-range smartphone seems pretty cheap to me. Personally, I think Apple should charge £2,500+ for the iPhone X to make the iPhone 'exclusive' again as it once was. It should be the Range Rover of smartphones.

Let the masses enjoy the iPhone 8.

Your opinion seems a bit counterproductive to me and would completely stifle Apples impact in regards to the outreach of their latest tech. I don't see why a company who apparently pride themselves on delivering to the masses would market their best iPhone with such elitist nonsense. I certainly don't understand why a consumer would wish for something to nearly quadruple in price either? The iPhone X is already rumoured to be priced too high and I'm sure it will be the second best seller in their current range. Apple will work with that going forward no doubt.

 

[The-Real-Deal82]

Whe original iPhone was.

In the UK at least, you had to sign with O2 (which wasn't a very good network) for 2yrs, pay for the iPhone which I think was around £800 and, from memory, the cheapest monthly payment was £60 and it was for a pathetic amount of calls/data.

I remember deciding, whatever the cost, I'd buy an iPhone - and didn't It was silly money for something that wasn't really much more useful than a Nokia for £130.

I didn't see an iPhone for several weeks after launch.

I remember the original iPhone and the O2 exclusivity here in the UK. I'm sure the people that owned them at the time felt that they were among the elite because they'd paid through the nose, but the reality was very different. It was overpriced and underperformed in comparison to some of the budget handsets out at the time. It changed the smartphone and was a stepping stone to what we have today, but the original iPhone was way too expensive for what it could do, much like the original iPad. Both were products delivered to the market far too early IMO.

We don't want to go back to days like that thanks.