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As alleged looks at the iPhone 8 like this one pop up, it's further buzzed that the phone will have a high price to go along with it. So: The $1,000 iPhone price point, give or take a dollar, appears to finally be here. (That translates to about £775 and AU$1,265, but because international costs aren't based on direct currency conversions, pricing in the UK and Australia will likely be higher.) However you slice it, it's a lot of money -- and it puts your phone on the same price plateau as, say, a nice laptop or a big-screen TV. Is it a financial bridge too far for overextended consumers? In a "peak smartphone" world awash with good-enough $250 handsets, will consumers throw up their arms and harrumph at Apple's hubris, likening the $1,000 iPhone to the now-extinct $10,000 Apple Watch Edition?.

I don't think so, I think the iPhone 8 -- or whatever it's called -- priced at $1,000 will sell briskly, and probably be hard to find for months, Far from hurting Apple and the iPhone brand, I think a new "luxury" iPhone will only enhance it, Here's why, $1,000 is a lot of money -- if you pay it all at once, "Wireless carriers help obscure the full cost of the device by offering a monthly financing plan," according to Wayne Lam, principal analyst at IHS Markit, Indeed, while two-year contracts have largely disappeared from iphone xr brilliance - rose gold the US wireless market, 24- and 30-month zero percent financing options are their successors, The carrier locks in a customer for the better part of two or three years, while that customer gets to spread out his or her payments, For a new 32GB iPhone 7 Plus with a retail price of $769, a 24-month plan is about $32.04 per month (above and beyond the wireless charges, of course), For a theoretical $999 iPhone 8, it would be $41.63, Hardly cheap, but the difference is less than $10 a month, Skip a few coffees -- or just two lattes -- and you've paid for your iPhone upgrade, Go on a 30-month plan at AT&T, and the monthly payment would be even less -- about $1.10 a day..

The 5.5-inch iPhone 7 Plus starts at $769 (a $20 bump from the 2015 model of the same size, by the way), and maxes out at $969 for the 256GB model. Following the long-established iPhone/iPad Apple pricing model, the step-up iPhone 8 model would cost $100 to $150 more at each storage capacity. So even if the new iPhone costs, say, $899 to $1099, it's actually right in line with the current pricing model, which is already within spitting distance of $1,000 anyway. Samsung is offering some nice discounts (for customers who suffered through the Note 7 fiasco) and freebie accessories (to goose preorders) with its new flagship Galaxy Note 8 phone. But the base price for the jumbo-screen, cutting-edge phone is $930 -- again, scraping its head right on the $1,000 ceiling. In the UK it's £869 and for Australia it's AU$1,499.

For the manufacturers, the attraction to higher prices is obvious: better margins, Samsung and Apple "make more absolute profit from each high-end model, So it's in their interest to push the market and test the price elasticity of the high end," says IHS' Lam, iphone xr brilliance - rose gold And they're not alone, The specialty Hydrogen phone from Red, the maker of high-end Hollywood digital cameras, will cost between $1,200 and $1,600 when it hits in 2018, To be fair, the company is promising a groundbreaking first-ever "holographic" display, But, like the presumed iPhone 8, these phones are the exotic sports cars in the market..

But if a grand is too rich for your blood, no problem! Apple is also expected to have two other new phones -- the iPhone 7S and 7S Plus that you'd expect in an odd-numbered year -- with more modest upgrades such as faster CPUs, better cameras and maybe wireless charging. Those would likely maintain the same basic design -- but also the same basic price points -- as current 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch models. And if Apple follows tradition, the previous year's models would stay in the line with a $100 price cut, with the entry-level iPhone SE bringing up the rear.