{"id":1020479,"date":"2026-07-13T10:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020479"},"modified":"2026-07-13T10:59:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T05:29:05","slug":"pricier-iphones-are-coming-what-and-when-should-you-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/13\/pricier-iphones-are-coming-what-and-when-should-you-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pricier iPhones are coming. What\u2014and when\u2014should you buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is usually the worst time to buy an iPhone. This year, because of the global memory-chip shortage, it\u2019s more complicated. In fact, some iPhones are safe bets right now.<\/p>\n<p>Apple unveils new phones and other hardware each fall. Usually, by holding off upgrades until then, you get a new device with a longer shelf life or, at the very least, the price drops on last year\u2019s models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is usually the worst time to buy an iPhone. This year, because of the global memory-chip shortage, it\u2019s more complicated. In fact, some iPhones are safe bets right now. Apple unveils new phones and other hardware each fall. Usually, by holding off upgrades until then, you get a new device with a longer shelf life or, at the very least, the price drops on last year\u2019s models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1020479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020480,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020479\/revisions\/1020480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}