iPhone 5 rumoured to cost $800 for the cheapest model

[nnodley]

Soleron said:

nnodley said:

Soleron said:

nnodley said:
On topic: No way will apple release an 800 dollar iphone with a contract.

They already do in Europe.

iPhone 4S 16GB from T-mobile is £36/month plus £49 upfront for 24 month contract, that's $1388. Not even unlimited.

Well when you look at it with the monthly payments it is pretty expensive, but just buying the phone itself, in the US, it's $200.  Then if I were to add on the monthly payments, especially with my families, which is 200 a month with 6 people, my mom pays a lot for our iphones.  This is at AT&T.

If you want just the wholesale phone cost, it's £500 = $775 to replace a 4S on that contract if it breaks. It's also about that on amazon.co.uk unolcked.

I bet that's a 12 month contract though. More of that cost is the phone cost, compare over 24 instead. 

It seems like the US always has cheaper prices. I don't really know why.  Probably mostly comes down to the strength of each currency.