For months you have been able to get some massive savings on iPhone 12 deals. At first it was just Amazon offering a big price cut but now, all of the biggest retailers are joining in.
Wind back the clocks all the way to March 25 when Amazon first launched its big iPhone 12 discount, knocking the price down to just £725. That's a £74 price cut and at the time, a huge discount compared to any other retailer on the market.
What was especially strange about this was that Apple is pretty adverse to discounts. Whether it be on its tablets, laptops, smartphones or any piece of tech, discounts are few and far between.
Despite this, Amazon then cut the price even further, hitting an £100 saving at £699 and staying that way for over a month. Since then we've seen the device fall as low as £649 with Amazon and now, it has settled at £679.
Setting the future standard for the iPhone 12:
As we said above, Apple isn't one for offering discounted devices and yet, it's not just Amazon dealing out this £120 saving right now. Very, Currys, Carphone Warehouse and other retailers have all come down to match.
This has now led to a bit of a metaphorical game of chicken. Amazon has driven the price down so low that unless retailers match its price, they'll be considered too expensive by comparison and therefore, they can't really bring their prices back up now.
On top of that, with the iPhone 13 likely to be launching in September, the iPhone 12 will in theory see its price fall soon anyway. This is Apple's favoured technique where once a new handset comes out, the old ones see a substantial drop in their price.
With all of this in mind and the fact that Amazon started offering this £679 price months ago, it would be a big shock to see the device return to its full cost of £799 again...well, ever.
Of course, we could be proven wrong here and retailers could decide tomorrow that they've had enough of discounting Apple's iPhone 12...but then you could simply wait for the soon-to-be-released iPhone 13 and snag up a likely identical saving then!
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But what about the other iPhone 12 devices?
While the iPhone 12 has spent months being discounted, it is the only handset of the four which has stayed this consistent. However, the iPhone 12 mini isn't exactly far behind.
Like the iPhone 12, it was heavily discounted by Amazon and then, once again, other retails joined in, copying the pricing. We've seen it sit pretty comfortably at £579 - another £120 discount.
While this could easily fall into the same fate as the iPhone 12, adopting this pricing right up until the launch of the iPhone 13, it doesn't feel quite as likely, purely down to the iPhone 12 mini's position as the least popular of the four devices.
As for the iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max, they've held out well against any real discounts. Both devices have seen the occasional drop but there's never been anything consistent.
In fact, other than an £100 discount during Amazon Prime Day, nothing has been all that substantial on these two larger handsets. So you should just hold out for the iPhone 13, right? Well, there's an issue there.
Yes, Apple does discount the older device when a new one comes out...but that only really applies to the cheaper options. The iPhone XS and XS Max never got discounted and never did the iPhone 11 Pro or Pro Max. Instead, as the more powerful devices they continue roaming around at full price.
What's the iPhone 12 like?
The iPhone 12 is a stunning handset, though we wouldn't expect anything less from Apple. Whilst it does hark back to the flat edges of the iPhone 5, it's a welcome revival with the iPhone 12 securing the same punchy display as its superior counterparts. Yes, the iPhone 12 is embedded with the 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR display that you'll also find on the iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max.
Available in black, blue, green, white and PRODUCT(red), the iPhone 12 offers a glossy back and matte edges. On the rear you'll also find the same dual camera set-up as on the iPhone 11, with a 12MP main sensor an 12MP ultra-wide sensor. There sees slight improvements to low light shooting with a f/1.6 aperture. Of course, powered by the A14 Bionic chip, too, it's likely to better process images and deliver crisp, high quality images we know well from previous iPhone models.
