so just saw the apple website and an unlocked iphone 5c will cost 549 dollars 89761.5 naira and the 32gb version for 649 dollars or 106111.5 now bearing in mind a new iphone 5 64gb could be bought for 715 dollars. apple claimed the iphone 5c would be cheap. its not its just an iphone in a plastic body i must say i am very disappointed in apple they should stop wasting peoples time unless of course this is a ploy to bump up the price of iphone 5s

.

If Apple is really targeting developing countries with this "low-cost" smartphone, then it has not done its homework properly. And that $549 is a subsidized price for US, it'll cost $733(about 117k) in China where operators don't subsidize phone prices & it's the same system here in Nigeria. This means iPhone 5S 'll be considerably more expensive. It only gets more ridiculous when you realise that 'low-budget' iPhone 5C will cost more than high end Samsung Galaxy S4.

actually the 549 is the unsubsidized price if you are buying on a 2 year plan its 99 and 199 dollars repectively so for the us consumer it might be worth it but then the question is how many people use their smartphones for 2 years before changing and considering the 5s is coming at 649 for the 16gb version with a new processor, camera and the finger reader it wouldnt make much sense to buy 5c at least to me it wouldnt i think it is just a ploy by apple to bump the prices of the mainstream iphones or at the very least reduce depreciation, much in the same way designer labels destroy unsold clothing to create a false scarcity