Telcos release iPhone prices as fans put in place their orders.

Optus brought about the wave of telecommunication providers in releasing pricing for the Apple iPhone 5 late in Friday, a week ahead associated with its scheduled release.

The telco’s least expensive plan costs $48, $30 for the plan, and $18 for the actual 16GB handset including 200Mb associated with data. It priced the 64GB unit at $129 with 4GB info.

Vodafone will charge $6 for the 16GB handset on a $60 monthly plan and 1GB data, while Telstra’s cheapest plan is $67 and its most expensive $130 with 4GB associated with data.

Optus and Vodafone customers who wished to pre-order the handsets online yesterday must wait until after 5. 01pm (EST). Telstra customers could order and also pay for their units half an hour later, and Apple direct clients after 6pm.

A Telstra spokesperson told the Weekend Financial Review that it will ship pre-orders on Fri and metro customers should anticipate to receive their unit within two business days, and regional orders in several.

Customers who tried to order available didn’t have much luck either; a customer in a Questionnaire shop was told there was do not need pre-order the unit because there would be “plenty of stock” on Friday when the device is released.

Meanwhile, Telstra’s call centre sales workers ramped up their efforts to scale back prices on old handsets to customers who were nearly out of contract.

Pricing for the handset outright starts at $799 for the 16GB model, rising to $899 regarding 32GB and $999 for 64GB.

Australia is again inside the first wave of countries for the handset, joining the US, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, The japanese, Singapore and the UK.

Apple also announced price adjustments for the iPhone 4S, which now starts at $679 as well as the iPhone 4, which will be around from $499.

Among the iPhone 5’s features are a larger screen, an 80 percent smaller connector, an 8-hour battery life on LTE plus some updated apps to take advantage of the longer screen format. Older apps aren't going to be stretched or scaled to fit the bigger screen size.

The new apple iphone, which is available in black and white, comes in at 7. 6mm thick (18 per dollar thinner than the iPhone 4S) and is also 20 per cent lighter when compared with its predecessor.

Other features incorporate a new, faster A6 chip, Wi-Fi support at speeds as high as 150 Mbps and an 8 megapixel iSight camera and that is 25 per cent smaller than the camera on the iPhone 4S.

Among the new camera’s capabilities is an attribute that allows it to take a 28 megapixel panoramic shot.

The iPhone 5 will ship with Apple’s latest mobile main system, iOS6, which will also be around for download on September twenty.