It’s barely been two months since the iPhone 14 was introduced, but as we told you, Rumors and leaks about the iPhone 15 have been on the table for quite some time. And what is interesting, most of them are not about the most affordable models of this future family, no. They focus on their top of the range, the great object of desire, generation after generation and also a bestseller, as we have seen in previous years.

On the one hand, it has been leaked that the Pro Ultra 15, the new top of the range, will introduce a new design that will differentiate it even more (as if its exclusive functions and features weren’t enough) from the rest. scope. And as for the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, it was already expected at the beginning of this year (there was not a year and a half for its launch) that they could have Face ID under the screen, a technological and design solution that Apple has been testing for some time.

And we recently learned that the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Ultra 15 will do away with physical buttons altogether, replacing them with haptic controls. So it seems that we are headed for a new generation of Pro, which aims to rethink a big evolutionary leap from its predecessors, the current 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, which in turn also managed to mark distances with the base model.

That’s, as I say, the little we “know” with about 10 months to go until the new generation arrives (barring surprises), so we can be sure there will be more news and improvements. yes, the whole range, but especially the Pro models, because Apple can already confirm from 2019 that users consider the price difference between basic and professional to be more than justified and that as a result choose models with higher performance.

However, this comes at a price (and never better said), as these extra features usually don’t come cheap. So, and as we can read in Forbes, The iPhone 15 Pro Ultra will come to the market with a price increase compared to the 14 Pro MaxThe reason for this price increase, according to the source, would be a substantial increase in costs in the manufacturing process, some additional costs that Apple would add to affect the final price of the top line.

No specific numbers are given, but it is said that, unlike what happened with the iPhone 14, which remained the same price compared to the previous generation in China and the United States (with increases in the rest of the geographies), 2023 with the iPhone 15 will be global. Which of course makes us wonder about the hypothetical starting price of the future 15 Pro Ultra.

And we must remember that the present generation, iPhone 14 Pro Max, which is part of 1,469 euros for the 128 gigabyte model, which goes up to 2,119 euros for the one terabyte model. No matter how “slight” this increase is, we can expect it to be above 1,500 euros. And to give some context, let’s recall that Samsung’s absolute flagship, the Galaxy S22 Ultra with a terabyte and 12 gigabytes of RAM, has an official price of 1,658.99 euros, it can currently be purchased for 1,304.00. The step is getting higher and I wonder how far it can go and what effects it can have.