NEW DELHI: Just a day after Apple’s announcement of iPhone 6’s launch in India, the official prices of the forthcoming Smartphones are out. Prices for the iPhone 6 start at 53,500, while the prices for the iPhone 6 Plus start at Rs 62,500. The 128GB version of the phone will sell for 71,500.

Preorders for the new iPhones have already kick started.

Apple iPhone 6 and 6 Plus will be sold by the company's distribution partners, namely Ingram Micro, Redington, Rashi Peripherals and Reliance. It is seen that even before the official announcement on sale, vendors have starting offering the premium Smartphones through e-commerce at prices starting from around 56,000.

The iPhone 6 16GB variant is priced at 53,500, which is the same price tag at which the iPhone 5S was launched last year. The 64GB variant is priced at 62,500, and the 128GB variant is priced at 71,500.

The new iPhones are differentiated by their display size — 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch — and are powered by next-generation 64-bit A8 processor paired with an M8 coprocessor and 1GB of RAM. The Smartphones also feature an 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.2-megapixel Facetime camera at the front, NFC and three storage options — 16GB, 64GB and 128GB. On the software front, the two new iPhones run on iOS 8.

Powered by the new A8 processor, iPhone 6 is up to 50 percent more energy efficient, so you can have higher sustained performance, claimed Apple. The 64-bit CPU architecture-based A8 processor is 20percent  faster in application processing and 50 percent  faster in rendering graphics compared to its predecessor. It is able to sustain performance-intensive tasks like playing a game at higher frame rates.

The two iPhone 6 models sport an 8MP iSight camera that features phase detection. Despite no increase in camera resolution, iPhone 6 takes 43MP panorama photos.