Apple raises UK prices on iPhone 7 and other products after Brexit woes

The new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are going to cost more than their predecessors in the UK because of currency fluctuations caused by the Brexit vote. While the cheapest iPhone 6s was priced at £539 last year, the cheapest iPhone 7 will set customers back £599 instead. The price bump for the cheapest Plus model is even larger — from £619 for the iPhone 6s Plus to £719 for the iPhone 7 Plus. That's a difference of £100 or $133.

Of course, these new models all have double the storage of last year's iPhones, but in the US, Apple isn't charging any extra for this increased capacity. The iPhone 6s with 16GB of storage cost $649 when it was announced last year, and the iPhone 7 with 32GB of storage costs the same this year. That means the UK price...

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