{"id":1034835,"date":"2026-09-12T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T04:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034835"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:47:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:17:23","slug":"iphone-duo-faces-india-sticker-shock-at-rs-2-99-lakh-stoking-debate-over-us-price-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/iphone-duo-faces-india-sticker-shock-at-rs-2-99-lakh-stoking-debate-over-us-price-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Duo faces India sticker shock at Rs 2.99 lakh, stoking debate over US price gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Calcutta-Bangkok round trip with a four-night stay will cost under a lakh if you book flight tickets for October 23, the day the iPhone Duo becomes available. The company\u2019s first foldable is priced upwards of \u20b92,99,900 for 256GB, while the top 2TB variant comes in at \u20b94,49,900. <\/p>\n<p>The pricing is making potential buyers compare it with the US starting price of $1,999 (approximately 1,91,000). iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max too begin at a higher price than the earlier generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Calcutta-Bangkok round trip with a four-night stay will cost under a lakh if you book flight tickets for October 23, the day the iPhone Duo becomes available. The company\u2019s first foldable is priced upwards of \u20b92,99,900 for 256GB, while the top 2TB variant comes in at \u20b94,49,900. The pricing is making potential buyers compare it with the US starting price of $1,999 (approximately 1,91,000). iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max too begin at a higher price than the earlier generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034835","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034883,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034835\/revisions\/1034883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}