Apple has bumped the iPhone 5S price up by £20 compared to its predecessor, the iPhone 5. This is an all to familiar move by Apple, who bumped the price up for the iPhone 5 by £45 compared to the iPhone 4S.
The company may keep prices the same in the US on contract, because the only other option would be to make it $299 on a two year contract and this has not been warmly accepted by Nokia Lumia 1020 fans.
UK prices come at £549 for the 16GB option, £629 for the 32GB option and £709 for the 64GB option. Apple did not announce a 128GB option, the first time the company has not added a large storage option with a new S model.
Apple’s iPhone 5C on the other hand will come for a little more than the iPhone 4S was priced a few days ago. In China, Apple has weirdly bumped the price up to about $700 USD, making in almost as expensive as the original iPhone.
The iPhone 5S does have a few new features to add, including the fingerprint sensor to unlock the smartphone and pay on iTunes and the Apps Store, the new 15% larger sensor with f/2.2 aperture and the new A7 processor with double speeds on CPU and GPU.
Apple has three different colours for the iPhone 5S, granite, silver and gold. The three colours are very mellow and the gold is more of a champagne tint. It seems black was taken from the list, possibly due to the new iOS7 design.
