A brand new report from DigiTimes claims that Apple’s new iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max fashions, which is able to debut this September, will carry a $100 to $200 value hike over the Cupertino agency’s present iPhone 14 Professional lineup.
Pricing for the iPhone 14 Professional and iPhone 14 Professional Max begins at $999 and $1,099, respectively. Which means DigiTimes expects that iPhone 15 Professional pricing may begin within the $1,099 to $1,199 vary, whereas iPhone 15 Professional Max may even see a rise in value to someplace between $1,199 and $1,299.
This isn’t the primary time we’ve heard experiences that Apple may improve the value of a few of its iPhone 15 lineup. Earlier this 12 months, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman mentioned that Apple was “contemplating” a value improve for the iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max fashions.
Trade analyst Jeff Pu has additionally mentioned that he expects to see the iPhone 15 Professional and iPhone 15 Professional Max be priced greater than the present Professional iPhone lineup. Pu predicted that the iPhone 15 Professional may begin at $1,099, which is $100 costlier than the value of the iPhone 14 Professional.
Whereas Gurman hasn’t provided any particular the reason why Apple could also be contemplating a value improve, Pu has pointed to new options and dear {hardware} upgrades such because the rumored periscope lens system. That’s one in all a number of issues that might drive a doable value hike. Very like every part else in right this moment’s economic system, the value of iPhone parts can also be on the rise generally, and this 12 months’s iPhone 15 Professional fashions are additionally anticipated to pack in bigger batteries, elevated storage capacities, a haptic motion button, and thinner bezels with a brand new titanium body.
Any doable value improve may have an effect on gross sales of the iPhone 15 Professional and Professional Max this 12 months, with some analysts anticipating gross sales to fall to round 77 million handsets for the brand new fashions in 2023. Initially, observers anticipated shipments to return in at round 83 million items. A few of that drop in shipments will probably consequence from an anticipated greater than 5 p.c year-on-year decline in general smartphone shipments.
In associated information, 9to5Mac experiences that transport of the iPhone 15 Professional Max could also be delayed till someday in October on account of points in manufacturing points with manufacturing the high-end iPhone’s digicam picture sensor.
The report cites a supply with a serious fairness analyst be aware that claims digicam elements supplier Sony might be unable to provide the picture sensor used within the rear-facing digicam on the iPhone 15 Professional Max in time for it to be shipped alongside the opposite new iPhone 15 fashions.
Apple’s iPhone 15 Professional Max is broadly anticipated to boast an enormous digicam improve, because of a periscope lens system that may present an improved optical zoom over the present iPhone’s 3X telephoto lens. The iPhone 15 Professional will not be anticipated to obtain an analogous replace. In the meantime, the lower-cost iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus is not going to obtain a telephoto improve however will supply ultra-wide and huge cameras, probably with a 48-megapixel (48MP) sensor much like the one launched in final 12 months’s iPhone 14 Professional lineup.
The iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Professional, and iPhone 15 Professional Max are all anticipated to be unveiled alongside the Apple Watch Collection 9 and Apple Watch Extremely 2 throughout an Apple occasion on Tuesday, September 12. Apple is prone to start accepting pre-orders on Friday, September 15, with items hitting cabinets following on Friday, September 22. Nonetheless, the delay anticipated by the analyst be aware may imply that iPhone 15 Professional Max deliveries gained’t start till someplace round early to mid-October.
[The information provided in this article has NOT been confirmed by Apple and may be speculation. Provided details may not be factual. Take all rumors, tech or otherwise, with a grain of salt.]