UK beats Europe on iPhone 5s prices

Jamie Feltham

November 22, 2013

Currency conversion usually leaves the UK a little shortchanged. If you work our the American and European pricing of some products stacked up next to ours, we don’t usually fair so well. Not so with Apple’s iPhone 5s, though. Apparently the UK beats Europe on prices of the new smartphone.

A report from MobileUnlocked ranks the price of the phone across the globe. The £549 price tag on a 5s places us around the middle of the rankings. The cheapest country, unsurprisingly, is the US, but the UK beats 25 other countries. Switzerland and Czech Republic are the only countries in the continent that are ahead.

But take off tax and the iPhone costs £457.50 in the UK. It would place us in the top 10, but alas.

So we may be paying out a bit more than we should in the UK, but we don’t get it as bad as others.

Source: MobileUnlocked

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Jamie Feltham

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