Samsung Galaxy Note 9 News, Updates: Handset Potentially Most Expensive Mass-Market Phone to Date

Samsung Galaxy smartphones are not exactly known to be cheap, but they didn’t have the same reputation for excessive costs as Apple. This might soon change with the Samsung Galaxy Note 9, however, especially with new leaks about its price. If the unconfirmed details are to be believed, this will apparently be the most expensive mass consumer smartphone to hit the market.

This new development comes courtesy of Roland Quandt of WinFuture, who is known to be reliable when it comes to these matters. In a pair of tweets, he reveals that the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 could cost as much as 1,099 pounds ($1,420) for the 512GB version. The 128GB base model will apparently be a bit cheaper, but it will still supposedly be at 899 pounds ($1,165).

Those prices are no small potatoes. If this information is accurate, the costs of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 models handily overshadow the iPhone X based on the entry-level rates. As Forbes also notes, looking at the U.K. prices of gadgets has proven to be a reliable means of predicting U.S. prices in the past.

As to what could justify such prices, it could be because Samsung is betting that customers would be willing to pay top dollar for the features of the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. It does come with the biggest screen size yet and has beefier specs than before. Its internal storage memory is nothing to scoff at either, with the top model sporting 512GB. This is a lot more than what most smartphones offer.

The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 will even come with the biggest battery that the lineup has ever featured, at 4,000mAh. This is impressive any way you dissect it, but will it improve enticing enough for customers to shell out more than $1,000? Official reviews of the smartphone should provide more details on that front.