iPhone 8 Plus deals and prices: what we know and what to expect?

We feel a bit sorry for the iPhone 8 Plus. Usually Apple's big screen iterative update would be set to be the new daddy of the iPhone family. But this year sees the iPhone X take that mantle and steal its thunder.

But the successor to the iPhone 7 Plus will still have a very valuable function to fulfill in the iPhone menagerie. If you want a 2017 large screened Apple sony parts , but the price of the iPhone X make you feel dizzy, then the iPhone 8 Plus is the one for you.

But how much will iPhone 8 Plus handset and deals cost? It's a good question, and TechRadar's experience and expertise make us the ideal people to predict the price. Keep reading to see how much you should expect to part with to get hold of the 8 Plus on a contract plan and what Apple has already announced for upfront purchases.

iPhone 8 Plus price: how much will it cost?

A mighty £799. That's how much the 64GB iPhone 8 Plus will cost you in the UK on launch - that's almost one hundred pounds more than the 7 Plus cost last year.

Need more memory - then your only other option is spending an extra £150 and grabbing a £949 256GB iPhone 8 Plus. Thank heavens then that Black Friday is just a few months away...

When can I buy the iPhone 8 Plus?

You haven't got long to wait before you can get your hands (note the plural - it's a huuuuge phone) on the iPhone 8 Plus. At Apple's big launch event, it confirmed that pre-order deals will be available this Friday 15 and we'll see handsets on the shelves from the following Friday - so you could be holding your shiny new iPhone 8 Plus in less than a fortnight.

If you sign up for notifications from Carphone Warehouse, it will email you as soon as pre-order deals become available on its website. Then you can choose the tariff that best suits you and know you'll be among the first to own an iPhone 8 Plus.

TechRadar predicts the best iPhone 8 Plus deal

We've searched through the records to refresh our memory of the kind of tariffs you could get the iPhone 7 Plus on at launch to get an idea of what the 8 Plus will cost on a contract plan. Unless you have a spare £800-odd burning a hole in your pocket, we're guessing this is how you're going to fund your new s7 edge lcd ...

iPhone 8 Plus | £149.99 upfront | 2GB data | Unlimited minutes and texts | £48 per month

We're afraid you are reading that correctly - £48pm was about the lowest you could get on the 7 Plus. Unless you can survive with a tiny amount of data, we don't think you'll be able to quite get away with paying less than £1300 over the course of your two year contract for the iPhone 8 Plus. Total cost over 24 months is £1301.99

Oh, we know it's high. But we can't see how iPhone 8 Plus deals can realistically get any cheaper than this. And that's just for starters - if you need more data, you'll be looking at even higher tariffs. 10GB data plans on the iPhone 7 Plus were around the £55 per month.

One way to potentially save a packet would be to combine an unlocked 8 Plus handset with a SIM only deal. Monthly plans start at a mere £3.99 a month, and you can get healthy data allowances for no more than a tenner a month. Now we know that would involve having to pay that £800-odd upfront, but if that's something you can do, then this isn't a wholly ridiculous idea.