For iPhone users who have been plugging away with an aging model, the smartphone to consider after Apple’s latest product-launch event might not be its new iPhone 14 series.

Instead, their upgrade could be the older iPhone 12 and 13, both fully compatible with U.S. 5G networks and with Apple’s iOS, and both of which Apple now sells for $100 less.

That brings the starting price of the 2020-vintage iPhone 12 down to $599, while last year’s iPhone 13 now starts at $599 in its mini version and $699 in the standard size. The new iPhone 14, meanwhile, will start at $799 when it goes on preorder on Friday.

The updated iPhone SE that Apple introduced in January remains unchanged at $429, but its 4.7-inch display may represent a deal breaker for people now accustomed to larger devices such as the 13 mini, with a 5.4-inch screen, or the 12, 13 and 14 with their 6.1-inch screens.

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The 12 and 13 lack the 14’s upgraded camera hardware and software as well as its Emergency SOS feature to summon help via satellite.

But those older models offer the same support for the most useful 5G: the fast, midband frequencies that T-Mobile sells as “Ultra Capacity,” AT&T markets as “5G+” and Verizon as “Ultra Wideband.”

AT&T customers, however, should note that in addition to those “C-band” frequencies, that carrier is also now lighting up a separate chunk of midband spectrum that it will support on the iPhone 14, but not the 13 or 12.

Either recent iPhone would provide a huge speedup compared to an older, 4G-only iPhone, assuming your carrier has midband 5G in your usual whereabouts.

Either would provide a huge speedup compared to an older, 4G-only iPhone–assuming your carrier has midband 5G in your usual whereabouts.

And yes, people still hanging on to a 5-year-old iPhone 8 do exist.