There is a price disparity between countries, but that can be slightly misleading-the US prices on the Apple website don’t include taxes, so most Americans will end up paying more than the $699 list price. The cheapest iPhone outside the US is in Japan, where the iPhone 8 starts at the Japanese yen equivalent of $707.94, 4,606.47 yuan, and £519.28. So, the most expensive place to buy an iPhone 8 is Hungary, where the basic model costs the forint equivalent of $1,020.61, 6,689.31 yuan, and £754.57. 20, iPhone 8 retail prices were not available on Apple’s website in Bahrain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Greenland, Guernsey, Iceland, Jersey, Kuwait, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Malta, Monaco, Qatar, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, or Slovenia. (The pound is also near its highest level against the dollar in 15 months on interest-rate hopes, so there is that, too.)Īs of Sept. Despite that, there are still many places where the iPhone is more expensive in sterling terms than back home-including the US, where it is a whopping £181 cheaper. In the aftermath of Brexit, the pound lost almost a fifth of its value and settled into a slump against the dollar, meaning most things became a lot more expensive for Brits.
Since 2010, Apple has been selling the iPhone in China directly and this year, China is among the first markets to get the latest phone.īut it is still far cheaper, for example, for Chinese people to cross over into Hong Kong and buy it there. For years, many of the earliest buyers of the iPhone in stores in the US (paywall) and elsewhere have been Chinese people looking to resell the phones in China for a steep markup.
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