Each annual iPhone announcement is usually one of the most-hyped events of the year, even though there’s very little that’s actually revolutionary or even surprising about smartphones anymore. The iPhone 12 is one of four models announced by Apple this year, and is in many ways the least remarkable. It doesn’t have top-end flagship cameras or a brand-new LiDAR sensor like the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max, and it doesn’t introduce a new size category that defies industry trends, which is where the iPhone 12 mini comes in.
The plain, middle-of-the-road iPhone 12 is however set to be Apple’s bread-and-butter model for the next year, and could be extremely popular.
Before we dive in, let’s get the pricing out of the way. In India, the iPhone 12 Pro starts at Rs. 1,19,900 for the 128GB variant and goes all the way up to Rs. 1,49,900 for 512GB. We noticed that the iPhone 12 Pro is priced considerably higher in India than the iPhone 12, in relation to the US pricing of both models. If you look at the base versions of both models on Apple’s websites for India and the US, the iPhone 12 costs roughly Rs. 14,000 more than a simple Dollar conversion, which is expected. However, the iPhone 12 Pro has a nearly Rs. 40,000 price difference. iPhones always have had inflated prices in India but this discrepancy in the pricing between models is a bit puzzling.
