QOTW: What do you make of the 2018 iPhones?

[FRISH]

Also indifferent here due to the super high markup and that it doesn't really bring anything particularly exciting over last year.

[ilh]

For me the best bang for buck phone is the Nokia 7 Plus; decent enough specs, good quality big screen with the perfect sized bezel (don't get the obsession with no bezel) and has everything everybody is removing such as headphone socket and micro SD card slot and it has a great battery life. From CPW I could get 3 Nokia 7 Pluses with 3 free 3310s, which are priced at £45 each, for the price of an XS. Please could someone tell me how it is worth over 3 times more. The flagship phone prices these days are just daylight robbery.

[Spud1]

All very lazy designs, all very very over priced (even more than usual), all of them are missing a fingerprint reader, and all of them have a giant hole in the top of their screens.

Some of the worst tech that Apple have ever launched imo. A massive backwards step for them.

[GinoLatino]

I don't care about iPhones, never have never will!

[Gh0sty]

iphone, piephone. Never been impressed with apple phones and these haven't changed my mind in the slightest.

[big_hairy_rob]

I'm not sure I fully understand the jump in price, especially considering the really quite lacklustre performance/tech increase. These phones/prices seem more exploitative rather than innovative, functional or justifiable.

[edmundhonda]

They're priced like revolutionary, incredible, world changing devices but they just aren't that. Fractionally quicker than last year, slightly better across the board, prices scaling up to £1500?

The XR is the real disappointment for me. Compromised the display that much and it's still £750.

[LSG501]

I made the mistake of questioning why someone suggested £600 was midrange and pointed to established tiering of phones(midrange being at most £400/£450 in the current climate) with loads of evidence(must be about 12 sites at least).

As the saying goes... there's one born every minute, clearly there's been an influx in the last few generations...

I've been looking for a new phone now for nearly 2 years and I've nearly bought a nokia 6/6.1 a couple of times but for some reason keep backing out, it's not so much the money, it's just I don't see what it offers over my current mobile....I can easily afford it, hell it's like disposable income range but I just can't seem to justify buying it and it's only like £250...

I've considered an iPhone and settled on the fact that the only reason I would buy one, and it would be the cheapest option, is if it was specifically required for work (unlikely) or I needed it for specific communications (doubtful), there's no way I'd just buy one for personal use because I'm luckily not swayed by brand marketing or wanting to look 'cool'...

Also got to say that I got my mum a new phone because she decided she wanted to get a 'smartphone' for some reason. In the end I helped her pick out a nokia 3.1, because she didn't want to pay much, and you know what for 150 quid give or take, it's a cracking little phone for the money which should get most of the updates. In all honesty I'd be quite happy using it on a regular basis, it's well made, the display even though it's low res (still 720p 18:9) is pretty good and I can't complain over the pictures it takes either. The only reason I wouldn't pick it as my daily driver is that it doesn't feel like enough of an 'upgrade' over my current phone but for my Mum, it's pretty much spot on price to features etc.

[aidanjt]

Premium garbage, comes to mind.

[Korrorra]

Overpriced crap. You can get a good touchscreen for 100 dollars.

[Ferral]

I got the 8+ last year and like it, I did have the option of an iPhone X last year but decided against. I can honestly say that this years itteration aren't to clever, I have also read that this year they aren't including the the adapter for the 3.5mm head phones in the boxes, you would think for the money they charged for these devices an adapter that costs around £6 would be included. They are blatantly ripping people off and the fact that the dollar amount is the same as the GBP amount is way out of line.

I feel Apple really need to come up with something new and innovative

[LSG501]

that the dollar amount is the same as the GBP amount is way out of line.

US price doesn't normally includes taxes (yes it makes it even more expensive lol) as most states have their own taxes while the UK price will have VAT included. Then there's the 'markup' for negative exchange rate fluctuations which never seem to get removed when our rates improves....

[azrael-]

Just got a Sony XZ1 Compact a few months ago for what's about equal to GBP 200. At that point the model (small but high-end) was about 6 months old. Why would I ever want to buy a phone, that's not much better but a lot bigger, for 4-5x that price?

[darcotech]

Meh.Meh and Meh.

Actually very expensive meh.

Apple disappoints.

[peterb]

Premium garbage, comes to mind.

Overpriced crap. You can get a good touchscreen for 100 dollars.

Overpriced certainly - as for the other - probably not - they are very capable phones - but consumers do have a choice!

[Phage]

I quite fancy a 2nd hand 8 Plus myself...