iPhone 5 price is $ 800

The costliest iPhone at the moment is the iPhone 4S 64GB Unlocked which sells for $849.00. Nobody bothers about that, though.

GameNGuide picked the listing and posted about it hinting strongly that this could be the type of rip-offs you can easily spot.

And that point was made clear when some random website – from Hong Kong – posted a listing of the rumored iPhone 5 and put the price as something between $800 and $1500. That was not the problem.



That wasn’t the problem, either.

Problem began when people started tweeting about it.

In the space of a couple of hours, #800DollarsforAniPhone became a trending hash-tag on Twitter and thousands – if not millions – began talking about it.

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This is the kind of a rumor spread that people should usually avoid but the frenzy is often accompanied with lack of sensibility. There were a lot of humorous tweets though.


Apple will never sell the iPhone 5 for $800 on contract. The very reason there’s contract is to make sure the iPhones are sold at a subsidized rates.


Someone tweeted that for $800, one should be able to touch faces through FaceTime. Someone else said the iPhone 5 better be bulletproof, fireproof and more for the $800 price tag.



But if you’re thinking of an unlocked iPhone, that would surely cost more.

In fact, that’s how it has been going on for long now.

The iPhone 5 price, by all market stats, would be similar to what the iPhone 4S costs. Analysts expect that the iPhone 5 price would be in the range of $199 – $399, same as the iPhone 4S. That would be on the contract model.

May be, the $800 was for iPhone 5 price without contract.



However, the unlocked price of the device is something that no one wants to speculate on. For starters, there are a lot of changes that could possibly raise the price – certainly crossing the $800 mark for the highest-end version of the iPhone 5. Remember, the iPhone 4S 64GB costs $849 already.

It has been widely rumored – and more reports come floating in as I type this – that iPhone 5 release date could be set for September 21st, with an announcement being made on September 12th, 2012. Sharp recently announced that it had started the shipments of IGZO displays – a prominent player in the Apple’s next-gen iPhone. Many watchers have actually and intentionally taken this as an indication that iPhone 5 production has begun for an early September launch.