It's a appealing safe bet that the iPhone 17 is going to
break cover at some point in September 2025, but how much is it going to charge?
Well, more than the iPhone 16, if current comments from an industry predictor
are to be believed.
Remarking at a guest lecture (via @Jukanlosreve), Samsung
Securities Research Center senior scientist Jong Wook Lee has gone on record as
saying "iPhone prices are predictable to upsurge next year" – after
no price rise in 2024.
iPhone 16 valuing currently starts at $799 / £799 /
AU$1,399, which matches the promotion pricing of the iPhone 15 (though that
phone is now available for less) – in fact, the 2024 model was AU$100 inexpensive
than the 2023 model was in Australia.
According to Lee, that means Apple is set to ramble prices
this time around, though we don't know how much they might go up. In fact, we
haven't got much in the way of iPhone 17 price outflows at all, up to this point.
Though we don't know how much the iPhone 17 will price, we
can look at current pricing. We've already said the iPhone 16, and the iPhone
16 Plus starts at $899 / £899 / AU$1,599 for the lowermost amount of storage.
The iPhone 16 Pro will set you back $999 / £999 / AU$1,799
and up, while the iPhone 16 Pro Max starts at a substantial $1,199 / £1,199 /
AU$2,149. We'll have to wait and see whether value hikes hit some or all of the
iPhone 17 models.
And there's whispered to be a new model arriving in place of
the iPhone 16 Plus: the iPhone 17 Air. That phone is seemingly going to set you
back $1,299 (around £1,030 / AU$2,045), which would be a substantial jump over
the handset it's replacing.
With sales of the iPhone 16 Plus allegedly not what they
could be, perhaps a change in design can help – and of course a advanced price
will often mean more money per device for Apple. We can expect a few more price
leaks to look between now in September.