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In Ukraine, pre-orders have started for the long-awaited Apple smartphone lineup – iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. And although the novelties traditionally impress with their specifications, titanium body, and revolutionary cameras, Ukrainians were most shocked by the price tags.
How much the new gadgets cost at official retailers and what useful or funny things you can buy for that money in Ukraine, will be told by 24 Channel.
How much does the latest model cost?
This year, prices for the Pro line of Apple’s official partner in Ukraine, Citrus, start at a substantial amount:
The base iPhone 18 Pro with 256GB will cost 77 999 hryvnias.
For the top version of the iPhone 18 Pro Max with a storage capacity of 2 terabytes, you will have to shell out cosmic 164 999 hryvnias.
For most Ukrainians, such figures are a budget for mid-term planning. So we decided to translate the cost of the new gadgets into more practical things for life.
A car fleet instead of a base iPhone 18 Pro.
If instead of buying a smartphone you go to car sale ad services, then for 78 thousand hryvnias you can become a proud car owner.
For this money in Ukraine, the following are offered:
The legendary Daewoo Lanos or VAZ-2109 "nine" at full speed. Often even with gas (GBO), fresh insurance, and a set of winter tires.
A used “Euro car” from the late 90-s or early 2000-s (in the style of Volkswagen Golf or Opel Astra), which will surely take you from point A to point B.
Own mini-farm instead of iPhone 18 Pro Max.
If you have long dreamed of leaving a cozy office and investing in agriculture, then the cost of the top iPhone will be enough for a solid start to a rural business:
Fuel.
Average prices at the Amic Energy gas station chain as of
Cows or horses: for 165 thousand hryvnias you can buy 3 adult dairy cows (on average about 25 000 hryvnias per head) and two good horses for the homestead.
Sheep farm: this money is enough to buy a small herd of 30 – 40 pedigree sheep.
Food safety or strategic reserve.
For those who are used to measuring capital by the grocery basket, the choice is obvious:
Tons of potatoes: at the price of a top smartphone you can buy more than 5 tons of select potatoes. This will be enough to feed not only your own family for the winter but also all neighbors in the entrance.
Credit diet: if you buy the phone on credit for 25 payments, then with the remaining money you will have to buy about 3 300 packs of noodles – just to sustain life during the payments.
Property in Polissya.
Strangely enough, but for the price of one small gadget in Ukraine you can still buy real estate. For 165 thousand hryvnias it is quite realistic to buy a small house in a village or a dacha somewhere in Chernihiv or Sums’ka oblast – with a stove, a well, and several hundred square meters of garden.
Or buy a garage in the sleeping district of your city.
Of course, everyone chooses for themselves: to enjoy the incredible 5-times zoom and shoot video in cinematographic quality, or proudly drive around their property in a own Lanos.
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