Aug 12, 2026BF3-0349Partly right
How much does the iPhone 18 cost?
Edison Lee: iPhone 18 Fold priced $2,199 to $3,099
The iPhone 18 Fold could cost $2,199–$3,099 depending on storage capacity.
Apple's iPhone 17 Pro Max starts at $999. Analyst Edison Lee reported that rising memory chip costs could push the price of the foldable iPhone 18 Fold as high as $2,199 to $3,099, depending on storage.
How to read this record
- What was reportedThe iPhone 18 Fold could cost $2,199–$3,099 depending on storage capacity.
- Who said it, and whenEdison Lee reported it on Aug 12, 2026 in ETNews.
- What happened, and whenApple iPhone 18 was announced on Sep 9, 2026, 28 days after this report.
- The verdict, and whyPartly rightSome of this was right and some of it was not.Why: The upper span was close: Apple's 512GB tier is exactly $2,199 and the 2TB is $3,199 against $3,099 reported. The entry price was not — iPhone Duo starts at $1,999, two hundred dollars below the floor of the stated range. What the company published
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- Right
- It turned out the way this report said.
- Partly right
- Some of this was right and some of it was not.
- Wrong
- It did not turn out this way.
- Moving target
- This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.
- Never settled
- The company has announced the product and nobody ever confirmed or denied this.
- Not comparable
- This measured a different thing from the number the company published, so the two cannot be compared.
- No outcome yet
- Nothing has happened yet that would prove this right or wrong.
- Not checked yet
- The company has answered this. We have not finished checking this one.
- Checked
- Checked means the company has since given an answer and we compared it with what was reported. Details still waiting on an answer, details nothing can settle, details where the plan itself changed, and details we have not finished reviewing are all counted separately and are not part of that number.
- Moving target
- A moving target is a report that described the plan accurately at the time, on a product the company then changed. We count these on their own: it would flatter a reporter to call them right, and it would blame a reporter for a decision that was not theirs to call them wrong.
- Reported by
- Edison Lee
- We read it in
- ETNews
- Product
- Apple iPhone 18 · reported as “iPhone 18”