{"id":1036608,"date":"2026-09-18T08:55:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1036608"},"modified":"2026-09-18T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T03:37:59","slug":"should-you-buy-iphone-17-now-or-wait-for-iphone-18-heres-what-insiders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/18\/should-you-buy-iphone-17-now-or-wait-for-iphone-18-heres-what-insiders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you buy iPhone 17 now or wait for iPhone 18? Here\u2019s what insiders say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rs 1 lakh question! Amidst the rising prices of mobile components, the average iPhone buyer is facing a lot of dilemmas. On one hand, there\u2019s the tried-and-tested iPhone 17 that carries on with a bloated price tag as Apple\u2019s \u201cstandard iPhone\u201d for everyone. It was a great option to buy last year, and for 2026, it remains a solid choice as a premium smartphone. While technically it runs on last year\u2019s components and specs, the iPhone 17 fits in as the smartphone that delivers the core iPhone experience without major compromises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rs 1 lakh question! Amidst the rising prices of mobile components, the average iPhone buyer is facing a lot of dilemmas. On one hand, there\u2019s the tried-and-tested iPhone 17 that carries on with a bloated price tag as Apple\u2019s \u201cstandard iPhone\u201d for everyone. It was a great option to buy last year, and for 2026, it remains a solid choice as a premium smartphone. While technically it runs on last year\u2019s components and specs, the iPhone 17 fits in as the smartphone that delivers the core iPhone experience without major compromises.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1036608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036608","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=1036608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1036622,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1036608\/revisions\/1036622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1036608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1036608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1036608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}