What Could You Buy For The Price Of An iPhone X?

On Tuesday, Apple Inc. launched its most comprehensive iPhone line-up ever. The tech giant launched an iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and the much awaited iPhone X. It turns out that the iPhone X is the flagship device the company has been working on for years to launch on the iPhone’s ten-year anniversary. The phone is packed with features like a Super Retina Display (or an OLED screen), TrueDepth Camera System, facial recognition and A11 Bionic Chip with Neural Engine.

What’s shocking is that the company has done away with the home button and changed the user experience altogether with swipes to unlock, access notifications and exit applications. But the phone now has a crisper, more immersive edge-to-edge display, thanks to the removal of the home button. Although it’s a giant step for Apple, its competitors like Samsung, LG and Xiaomi were some of the first companies to attack the bezels.

Indians have always been price-conscious and just 2.5 percent of the population has Apple phones. The rest seem happier with Android phones that cost a fraction of the price of the latest iPhone.

To make matters worse, the iPhone X won’t come cheap in India. In fact it’s the most expensive here.

In India, the IPhone X will set you back by Rs 89,000. That’s nearly 40 percent more expensive than in the U.S., where at retails for $999. But is it really worth the money?

We took to the streets of Mumbai to see what people thought of the price tag and find out what they’d buy for that princely sum instead.