Previous iPhones become cheaper, iPhone 4S 16GB at Rs 41,400

The Apple iPhone 5 has been launched in a host of countries and it is only a matter of time before it graces shores in India. As of now, there is no official word about the time of the arrival of Apple's new flagship handset in India, but the latest information shows that the launch date is looming close.

Is the price drop indicating a iPhone 5 launch?

This will be great news for those who are looking to procure an iPhone, and a decrease of Rs 9,600 in the price is a sizeable amount, especially because Apple has never wavered from a device's price while it was still a part of its device portfolio. However, if wishes were horses, we would hope that the price of Rs 28,300 was for the iPhone 4S and not the iPhone 4. The iPhone 4 would do pretty well in India, if it got a price tag of around the Rs 20,000 mark, similar to how the iPhone 3GS did when the iPhone 4S was announced.

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Another reason to covet the iPhone 4S over the iPhone 4 is that the former can reap all the benefits of the iOS 6.

India has very little to benefit from iOS 6, and though improvements in Siri and Maps are the major talking points of the latest software update, users in India can feel quite limited as the above mentioned features do not work all that well in India yet. However, the major plus point for the iPhone 4S could be FaceTime over cellular networks, something that the iPhone 4 cannot do.

With this all said, one thing is for certain. The iPhone 5 is coming to India and the launch date is close.