Technical / How much will Apple's new iPhone 12 series cost in India?

Technology Desk: Apple has finally made its iPhone 12 line-up of smartphones official at its Hi, Speed event. Launched at the company's second big product event in the span for a few weeks, the iPhone 12 line-up brings with it four new phones, each with a lot to like about them.

With the new Apple Watch and iPad Air already announced during the "Time Flies" event in September, the iPhone 12 line-up was announced today at the event amid much virtual fanfare straight from the company's HQ in Apple Park.

Apple iPhone 12: Price and availability

Apple has launched the iPhone 12 series of phones in four different sizes with the iPhone 12 mini the most affordable one on the list. The iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini will be available in 64GB, 128GB, and 256GB models in blue, green, black, white, and red, starting at Rs 79,900 and Rs 69,900, respectively from apple.com and through Apple Authorised Resellers.

As for the iPhone 12 Pro, it will be a more expensive proposition that will start retail for Rs 1,19,900 in India. for the device will begin on October 23 in India. It will be available in Graphite, Silver, Gold, and Pacific Blue colours.

The iPhone 12 Pro Max will start at Rs 1,29,900 in India and will be up for pre-orders starting November 6. This phone will also be available in the same Graphite, Silver, Gold, and Pacific Blue colour options.

iPhone 12 line-up: Specifications

These two represent the entry-level devices for the iPhone 12 line-up for the year. The two devices bring with themselves a 5.4-inch and 6.1-inch display respectively. Both panels are Super Retina XDR OLED displays that do not support super-fast 120Hz refresh rates.

The iPhone 12 Pro also comes with a 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR OLED panel that again runs at the same refresh rate as the more affordable iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12. The iPhone 12 Pro Max features the biggest panel on an iPhone this year with a 6.7-inch OLED display.

Under the hood, all four iPhones are powered by the company's new A14 Bionic chipset which promises improved overall performance and faster machine learning with its next-generation Neural Engine. As Apple has explained in the past, this chipset is the most advanced that Apple has created to date, which makes the new iPhone 12 series phones the more power-efficient and faster than previous iPhones.

Apple claims the A14 Bionic brings in serious gains to the iPhone 12 series. As such, when compared to the iPhone 11 series, the chipset helps ensure that the new iPhone offers better performance per core for single as well as multi-threaded applications, even as it consumes less energy per core while doing so.

Moving on to the cameras, there are a few similarities and a few differences between the hardware on the four phones. This is because the iPhone 12 mini gets a dual camera set-up with a 12-megapixel wide-angle camera and a 12-megapixel ultrawide-angle lens sat next to each other. The iPhone 12 also gets the same dual-camera set-up which is found on the iPhone 12 mini.

The iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max get a better triple camera set-up with 12-megapixel F1.6 primary camera, a 12-megapixel telephoto camera, and a 12-megapixel ultrawide camera along with a LiDAR sensor. Last, but not least, the iPhone 12 Pro Max also gets some extra features to improve photography performance on the device.