Apple has just announced their long flop iPhone model iPhone 5c in India. Eventhough, Apple has never accepted the failure of iPhone 5c, the sales numbers have been speaking on their behalf. In an attempt to further push the device into market, they have now luanched 8GB version of the iPhone 5c. It has been on sale in some foreign countries and today they have launched it in India as well. India has always been Apple’s dumping ground for iPhones. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t see the strong iPhone fans here who always buys the best iPhone models on day one.
The question is why we dont want you to buy this phone ? We would’ve nodded a bit if the iPhone 5c had the same hardware as iPhone 5s despite being in a plastic shell. iPhone 5c unfortunately has the same internals as in iPhone 5 which was released last year. Does that make its price any less ? Nope. iPhone 5c 8GB is priced at Rs 37,500/-. That’s right, an iPhone with last year’s hardware and storage as low as 8GB. Not to forget, an iPhone with 8GB only gives you close to 6GB of memory for your use. Sometimes even less.
Apart from this, iOS 8 will be soon announced on June 2nd at WWDC followed by new iPhone announcement in September. That will make your phone the one with a 2 year old hardware. Besides, we can easily bet that iOS 8 will further slow down the performance as it will bring more features. iOS is known for their fantastic apps. And that’s true in every aspect. But they’re also heavy. Apps themselves are huge in size and they tend to occupy more space as you use them everyday. Plus, the photos you take, the songs you sync/purchase, the videos and all other media will show no mercy to your phone’s storage capacity leaving you to struggle to balance them all.
