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Think The iPhone 6s Is Expensive? What do you think in India?

The iPhone 6s does not come cheap, but for a certain country, the price tag is the highest that customers need to pay to acquire Apple's latest smartphone.

The iPhone 6s will be launched on Oct. 16 in India, which is three weeks after the device was released to most of the western world. In addition to the delayed launch, customers will have to pay the most for the iPhone 6s compared to all other countries.

In India, the price tag for the 16GB model of the iPhone 6s is 62,000 rupees, which is equivalent to $955. The 128GB model of the iPhone 6s Plus, on the other end of the spectrum, will come with a price tag of 92,000 rupees, which is equivalent to $1,415.

Using the bottom and top models of the iPhone 6s as the reference points, CNET pointed out that Indian customers will be paying $306 more for the 16GB iPhone 6s and $466 more for the 128GB iPhone 6s Plus.

What is ironic with the high selling prices for the iPhone 6s in India is that it could prove to be a costly decision for Apple, as analysts are saying that with prices too high, almost all of the prospective customers for the device will not be able to afford the smartphone.

Rival Samsung has a presence in India, with the Galaxy S6 coming with a price tag of 40,000 rupees, which is about $615. However, the best-selling smartphones are the budget devices that come with price tags below the equivalent of $200, such as the RedMi line of Chinese mobile phone manufacturer Xiaomi and the devices released by local company Micromax.

"Anything above 60,000 rupees is way out of reach for even an average rich urban consumer," said Counterpoint Research director Neil Shah.

Apple had good sales in India for its last fiscal year of October 2014 to September 2015 with 1.7 million units sold, representing an increase of 55 percent compared to the previous fiscal year. However, only half of the iPhones sold during the period were from the iPhone 6s series, which according to Shah, reflects the price affordability of the iPhone customers in India.

The iPhone 6, upon its launch last year in India, had a price of 56,000 rupees for the 16GB model, equivalent to $865.

From Techtimes.com

Apple Awarded Patent For Curved And Flexible Display like Samsung: How Is It Different From The Galaxy S6 Edge's Screen?

Smartphone lovers could soon see an iPhone with a curved and flexible display as Apple has been awarded a patent for the same. Everybody loves iPhone even the price is high than the cheaper Samsung with same capability. Brand can sway people to buy.

The concept of the display may not sound novel as the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge currently boasts a curved screen. However, what sets the Apple Patent apart is that not only does it cover a curved screen, but also the capacity to make the display a flexible one.

The patent for the "flexible wraparound display" was filed by Apple in 2013 and spotted by Patently Apple.

"Apple's newly granted patent covers their invention relating to a consumer electronic product such as an iPhone that includes at least a transparent housing and a flexible display assembly enclosed within the transparent housing. In the described embodiment, the flexible display assembly is configured to present visual content at any portion of the transparent housing," per the publication.

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Potentially, not only can Apple's next-gen iPhone 7 can use both the sides as a display, but also mold the screen into any shape the company pleases. So basically, if Apple implements the wraparound display patent technology for the iPhone 7, it would be able to make the smartphone sport a spherical, cylindrical or any shape it chooses.

Moreover, the Cupertino-based company would have the green signal to create a smartphone that pretty much is made up of a 100 percent display! Apple can stick to the 4.7-inch screen size and still show more content than rival smartphone offerings which are bigger. The company can devise a method whereby the screen folds in such a manner that it would seem that an image or video is in an incessant loop.

Apple could take things several leagues ahead and create an iPhone which is made completely out of glass. Its latest 3D Touch technology could completely negate the need for physical volume, home and lock buttons.

The flexible screen would offer Apple the opportunity to experiment with inserting a second display behind the first one so as to create 3D images with some ingenious programming. The two screens would create an illusion of depth and recreate a 3D experience.

Taken from Techtimes.com