Wednesday Apple has launched four new iPhone 14 models: iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max.
Aside from the iPhone 14 Plus, which this year is a new model and “replaces” last year’s iPhone 13 Mini, Apple has not touched the dollar prices of the other three models in the US, compared to those of their correspondents. iPhone 13 models cost the year before.
But in other markets, including Norway, prices have gone up.
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None under 10,000
Now you have to fork out NOK 10,990 for the cheapest of the new iPhone 14 models, namely the one simply called the iPhone 14 – with 128GB of storage. When the iPhone 13 was launched last year, it cost NOK 9,790. The price increase is therefore NOK 1,200, or 12.3%.
The 256GB version of the iPhone 14 also costs NOK 1,200 more, while the 512GB version costs NOK 1,600 more this time around – 14,990 versus last year’s 13,390.
Introductory price, iPhone 14 vs iPhone 13
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template |
13 |
14 |
Increase (NOK) |
Increase (%) |
| iPhone 128 GB | 9790 | 10990 | 1200 | 12.3% |
| iPhone 256 GB | 11090 | 12290 | 1200 | 10.8% |
| iPhone 512 GB | 13390 | 14990 | 1600 | 11.9% |
| iPhone Pro 128 GB | 12290 | 13990 | 1700 | 13.8% |
| iPhone Pro 256 GB | 13590 | 15290 | 1700 | 12.5% |
| iPhone Pro 512 GB | 15890 | 17990 | 2100 | 13.2% |
| iPhone Pro 1 TB | 18190 | 20690 | 2500 | 13.7% |
| iPhone Pro Max 128GB | 13490 | 15490 | 2000 | 14.8% |
| iPhone Pro Max 256GB | 14790 | 16790 | 2000 | 13.5% |
| iPhone Pro Max 512GB | 17090 | 19490 | 2400 | 14.0% |
| iPhone Pro Max 1 TB | 19390 | 22190 | 2800 | 14.4% |
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Even more about Pro
If you want an iPhone 14 Pro, you have to shell out NOK 13,990. Last year, the iPhone 13 Pro cost NOK 12,290, with a price increase of NOK 1,700, or 13.8%.
The 256GB version also costs NOK 1,700 more this year, while the 512GB and 1TB versions cost NOK 2,100 and NOK 2,500 more respectively.
The most expensive of all, the iPhone 14 Pro Max, also has the highest price increase, both in crowns and as a percentage. The 128GB version now costs NOK 15,490 – NOK 2,000 more than the iPhone 13 Pro Max, which therefore corresponds to a price increase of 14.8%.
You also have to pay NOK 2,000 more for the 256GB version, while you have to pay NOK 2,400 more for the 512GB version and NOK 2,800 more for the 1TB version.
The best variant, with 1 TB of storage, therefore costs NOK 22,190, up from NOK 19,390 last year.
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Maintains 13 prices
Apple still sells iPhone 13 and 13 Mini, but where the company previously lowered the price of last year’s models, they have the same price tags as last year’s launch, which is NOK 9,790 for the 128GB version of the iPhone. 13 as an example.
The iPhone SE, the most affordable Apple phone, also experienced a price increase: up to NOK 600, from NOK 5,290 to NOK 5,890, for the 64 GB variant. There is also a NOK 600 increase on the 128 and 256 GB versions of the iPhone SE.
Strong dollar
It is not only in Norway that prices have risen. CNBC reports a NOK 800 price increase on the iPhone 14 compared to the iPhone 13 in the UK, a NOK 340 increase in Australia, NOK 1,450 in Japan and a thousand in Germany.
But the strong dollar explains the price increases. As of September 1, 2022, the dollar exchange rate was NOK 10 according to Norges Bank, while on September 1, 2021, it was 8.69.
This therefore corresponds to a price increase of 15.1% and, in this respect, Norwegian prices indeed are reduced compared to last year, as none of the products are 15 percent more expensive.
Additionally, Statistics Norway reported this week that the consumer price index rose by 6.5% from August 2021 to August 2022.
In neighboring countries, iPhone 14 models also cost a few hundred Swedish kronor more. In Sweden, the price is 11,990 SEK for the iPhone 14, or 11,211 NOK at today’s exchange rate, while in Denmark it costs 8,299 NOK, or 11,113 NOK.
In the US country of origin, you have to shell out $ 799 for the iPhone 14. US prices are shown without VAT (varies from state to state), but if we add 25 percent like in Norway, we land at NOK 9,843 per rate. exchange rate today, that is a thousand marks minus the Norwegian price.
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