Wednesday, 12 August 2015

iPhone 6C - It Had Better Be Cheap

With the rumored iPhone announcements pencilled in for September the 9th, there are also leaks that the new "cheap" iPhone - the iPhone 6C - will be announced around this time.

Techradar has created a small "wish list" of features that they hope we will see on the "C" version of the iPhone this time around.

As readers will know, I'm not an iPhone fan - They are just too expensive, and not premium enough for the money.
So when the original iPhone 5C was announced I had hoped that we might see a version of an iPhone that you could comfortably buy for less than £200, or perhaps even cheaper.
After all, it was looking like "C" might stand for "cheap", and the plastic body was a clear case of mimicry of the Nokia Lumia colourful, plastic casings.

Unfortunately, Apple still thought that a cheap iPhone was a premium product, and whilst the iPhone 5 was in demand, the colourful 5C sat forlorn on the retailers' shelves.

When the iPhone 6C is announced, I hope that Apple have learned something and will apply a suitably cheap price tag to it - iPhones are popular, but that doesn't mean that a substandard version in a plastic case is worthy of a premium price tag.

If you want a plastic smartphone that "just works", then head towards the Microsoft Lumia range - especially if you are unwittingly tying yourself in to Windows 10.