Re: Apple event roundup - prices!
I've noted the price difference of the iphone 5 between USA and Australia and others on the Apple stores iphone 5 lightning adaptor USA $199= $175 AU $29 US = $25 AU OZ $799 = $799 AU $35 AU = $35 AU S $948 (singapore?) = $603 AU $42 SGD = $32 AU HK $5588= 630 $AU $238 HKD= $26 AU Anyone got any thoughts an why there is such a price difference for the phone when the accessories are fairly evenly/similarly priced? Aren't these things made in Singapore or Taiwan or somewhere around SE Asia. chow Gary Dorn On 13/09/2012, at 2:41 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Lots of interesting specs on iDevices and sales,... New iPhone 5 7.6mm thin (18% thinner). Made entirely of glass and aluminium. 326ppi Retina Display, 4 1136x640 resolution. Same width, but taller. Still designed to be used with one hand,… Ultrafast Wireless - Telstra, Optus and Virgin mentioned for faster network access,… A6 processor (2x faster CPU and 2x graphics compared to A5). 22% smaller and more energy efficient ;o) Battery life better then the iPhone 4s. Similar camera as 4s but smaller. (And a few more features,…Sapphire crystal lens cover.). Panorama photos. 1080p HD video, takes photos while recording. Three microphones- front, bottom and back. (better voice recognition and noise cancelation). New Dock connector - called Lightning. (changed from the over 9 year previous adapter!). Plugs in either way, all digital, 80% smaller. Can get an adapter for older devices until they get updated from third party wholesalers. (And lol to their Thunder and Lightning comment,..lol) Pricing is (about) the same - AUD I think is $799,$899 and $999 (16GB, 32GB and 64GB). Black and white colour choices again. Pre order on the 21st here in Australia (i.e. next Friday) More demo's of iOS6. Maps, full screen Safari (iCloud tabs), enhancements to Mail, Passbook, Shared Photo stream, Updated Siri September 19th for iOS6 (for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, 3GS, new iPad, iPad2 and iPod touch. Changes to iTunes,… coming with iOS6 on Sept 19th. New look iTunes interface (similar to iOS one), and more Facebook and Twitter integration and likes. New mini player, with search and managing playlists. iCloud integration. new iTunes late October. iPod. New iPod nano. larger display, thinner, lighter, Lightning charger. 2.5 touch display. 7 colours. FM tuner. Look at photos and videos too. Bluetooth. iPod Touch - thinner, lighter.4 display, A5 processor. (faster), New camera also. 1080p video and 720p FaceTime HD Camera on front. Bluetooth, Wireless, Airplay mirroring. Siri supported. 5 colours (can attach a strap to it as well now - colour matched also,..lol) Available in October. New earbuds - called EarPods. (3 years in design). - a directed speaker port that points forward into your ear canal. port in the back for mid-tones, port in the stem and the pain port. interesting,…. Shipping from today. (Will be included with the iPod touch, iPod nano and iPhone 5). Pricing will be up soon I'm sure,….. I'm sure more will be up on apple.com/au soon. Enjoy! Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug gdorn gd...@mac.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/3d60aa53/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug
Re: Apple event roundup - prices!
Hi Gary, My guess is that you are comparing the price of a phone with a contract in the US to the price of buying the phone outright in Australia. Regards, Carlo --- Carlo Margio Real World Computing mob: +61 404 296 965 i...@realworldcomputing.com.au www.realworldcomputing.com.au On 14/09/2012, at 6:23 PM, gdorn gd...@me.com wrote: I've noted the price difference of the iphone 5 between USA and Australia and others on the Apple stores iphone 5 lightning adaptor USA $199 = $175 AU $29 US = $25 AU OZ $799 = $799 AU $35 AU = $35 AU S $948 (singapore?) = $603 AU$42 SGD = $32 AU HK $5588 = 630 $AU $238 HKD= $26 AU Anyone got any thoughts an why there is such a price difference for the phone when the accessories are fairly evenly/similarly priced? Aren't these things made in Singapore or Taiwan or somewhere around SE Asia. chow Gary Dorn On 13/09/2012, at 2:41 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Lots of interesting specs on iDevices and sales,... New iPhone 5 7.6mm thin (18% thinner). Made entirely of glass and aluminium. 326ppi Retina Display, 4 1136x640 resolution. Same width, but taller. Still designed to be used with one hand,… Ultrafast Wireless - Telstra, Optus and Virgin mentioned for faster network access,… A6 processor (2x faster CPU and 2x graphics compared to A5). 22% smaller and more energy efficient ;o) Battery life better then the iPhone 4s. Similar camera as 4s but smaller. (And a few more features,…Sapphire crystal lens cover.). Panorama photos. 1080p HD video, takes photos while recording. Three microphones- front, bottom and back. (better voice recognition and noise cancelation). New Dock connector - called Lightning. (changed from the over 9 year previous adapter!). Plugs in either way, all digital, 80% smaller. Can get an adapter for older devices until they get updated from third party wholesalers. (And lol to their Thunder and Lightning comment,..lol) Pricing is (about) the same - AUD I think is $799,$899 and $999 (16GB, 32GB and 64GB). Black and white colour choices again. Pre order on the 21st here in Australia (i.e. next Friday) More demo's of iOS6. Maps, full screen Safari (iCloud tabs), enhancements to Mail, Passbook, Shared Photo stream, Updated Siri September 19th for iOS6 (for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, 3GS, new iPad, iPad2 and iPod touch. Changes to iTunes,… coming with iOS6 on Sept 19th. New look iTunes interface (similar to iOS one), and more Facebook and Twitter integration and likes. New mini player, with search and managing playlists. iCloud integration. new iTunes late October. iPod. New iPod nano. larger display, thinner, lighter, Lightning charger. 2.5 touch display. 7 colours. FM tuner. Look at photos and videos too. Bluetooth. iPod Touch - thinner, lighter.4 display, A5 processor. (faster), New camera also. 1080p video and 720p FaceTime HD Camera on front. Bluetooth, Wireless, Airplay mirroring. Siri supported. 5 colours (can attach a strap to it as well now - colour matched also,..lol) Available in October. New earbuds - called EarPods. (3 years in design). - a directed speaker port that points forward into your ear canal. port in the back for mid-tones, port in the stem and the pain port. interesting,…. Shipping from today. (Will be included with the iPod touch, iPod nano and iPhone 5). Pricing will be up soon I'm sure,….. I'm sure more will be up on apple.com/au soon. Enjoy! Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug gdorn gd...@mac.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/3d60aa53/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/e2f94978/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -
Re: Apple event roundup - prices!
the cheap us phones are on contract. i'm not sure they can buy them outright, though lately they seem to have prepaid options. --- Susan Hastings Mobile: 0409 688 004 susanhasti...@mac.com On 14/09/2012, at 6:23 PM, gdorn gd...@me.com wrote: I've noted the price difference of the iphone 5 between USA and Australia and others on the Apple stores iphone 5 lightning adaptor USA $199 = $175 AU $29 US = $25 AU OZ $799 = $799 AU $35 AU = $35 AU S $948 (singapore?) = $603 AU$42 SGD = $32 AU HK $5588 = 630 $AU $238 HKD= $26 AU Anyone got any thoughts an why there is such a price difference for the phone when the accessories are fairly evenly/similarly priced? Aren't these things made in Singapore or Taiwan or somewhere around SE Asia. chow Gary Dorn On 13/09/2012, at 2:41 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Lots of interesting specs on iDevices and sales,... New iPhone 5 7.6mm thin (18% thinner). Made entirely of glass and aluminium. 326ppi Retina Display, 4 1136x640 resolution. Same width, but taller. Still designed to be used with one hand,… Ultrafast Wireless - Telstra, Optus and Virgin mentioned for faster network access,… A6 processor (2x faster CPU and 2x graphics compared to A5). 22% smaller and more energy efficient ;o) Battery life better then the iPhone 4s. Similar camera as 4s but smaller. (And a few more features,…Sapphire crystal lens cover.). Panorama photos. 1080p HD video, takes photos while recording. Three microphones- front, bottom and back. (better voice recognition and noise cancelation). New Dock connector - called Lightning. (changed from the over 9 year previous adapter!). Plugs in either way, all digital, 80% smaller. Can get an adapter for older devices until they get updated from third party wholesalers. (And lol to their Thunder and Lightning comment,..lol) Pricing is (about) the same - AUD I think is $799,$899 and $999 (16GB, 32GB and 64GB). Black and white colour choices again. Pre order on the 21st here in Australia (i.e. next Friday) More demo's of iOS6. Maps, full screen Safari (iCloud tabs), enhancements to Mail, Passbook, Shared Photo stream, Updated Siri September 19th for iOS6 (for iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, 3GS, new iPad, iPad2 and iPod touch. Changes to iTunes,… coming with iOS6 on Sept 19th. New look iTunes interface (similar to iOS one), and more Facebook and Twitter integration and likes. New mini player, with search and managing playlists. iCloud integration. new iTunes late October. iPod. New iPod nano. larger display, thinner, lighter, Lightning charger. 2.5 touch display. 7 colours. FM tuner. Look at photos and videos too. Bluetooth. iPod Touch - thinner, lighter.4 display, A5 processor. (faster), New camera also. 1080p video and 720p FaceTime HD Camera on front. Bluetooth, Wireless, Airplay mirroring. Siri supported. 5 colours (can attach a strap to it as well now - colour matched also,..lol) Available in October. New earbuds - called EarPods. (3 years in design). - a directed speaker port that points forward into your ear canal. port in the back for mid-tones, port in the stem and the pain port. interesting,…. Shipping from today. (Will be included with the iPod touch, iPod nano and iPhone 5). Pricing will be up soon I'm sure,….. I'm sure more will be up on apple.com/au soon. Enjoy! Kind regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel AT macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Apple** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug gdorn gd...@mac.com -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/3d60aa53/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Settings Unsubscribe - http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.wamug.org.au/pipermail/wamug.org.au-wamug/attachments/20120914/4d6dbc40/attachment.htm -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -
