iPhone SE 3 price INCREASED! Shocking! Is it worth buying over iPhone 12?

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The iPhone SE 3 is now a shocking phone by all means! No, not because of its dated design, but it is down to its price tag. The iPhone SE has always been the most affordable iPhone one can buy, with certain compromises to attain the price. Those compromises usually come in the form of a small display, small battery, single camera, and limited colours, but you get the latest chipset. Hence, most buyers have it in their minds to buy an iPhone only if it costs just as much as a midrange Android phone. With the iPhone SE 3 though, things have changed.

Back in March 2022, Apple announced the iPhone SE 3rd Gen in India with a starting price of Rs. 43,999. It was expensive by all means, especially for an iPhone 8 with a iPhone 13 chip, and that too for its base 64GB storage variant. From there on, we only assumed that the price would drop, as was the norm with previous variants of the iPhone SE. Sadly, the opposite has happened – the iPhone SE 3 is more expensive than ever.

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Here are the prices of the iPhone SE 3 listed on the Apple Online Store.

64GB variant: Rs. 49,900

128GB variant: Rs. 54,900

256GB variant: Rs. 64,900

These prices are much higher than the ones that were here when the phone launched.

If you go over to Flipkart, you get slightly reduced prices in comparison.

64GB variant: Rs. 47,990

128GB variant: Rs. 52,990

256GB variant: Not available

No, not at all, especially since you can buy the new iPhone 12 for more or less the same price, if not lesser. Amazon is selling the 64GB variant of the iPhone 12 at a price of Rs. 47,990, and the 128GB variant at a price of Rs. 52,990.

Compared to the iPhone SE 3, the iPhone 12 is undoubtedly a superior phone in ways that matter to