iPhone 13 Pro set for last hurrah in Vietnam

By Khuong Nha December 12, 2022 | 06:07 pm PT

Through its website, a distributor announces that the iPhone 13 Pro is out of stock. Photo by VnExpress/ Khuong Nha

With Apple discontinuing production of the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max smartphones, stocks available with Vietnamese retailers are very low and only enough for sales in December.

Now mostly phones with a large memory remain with Apple authorized resellers like FPT Shop, CellphoneS and Di Dong Viet.

Nguyen The Kha, a manager of an FPT Shop outlet, said the iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max remained among the bestselling phones in the first half of this year even after the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max were released in November.

But since Apple stopped production of the 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max in October, they would soon be out of stock, he said.

Phung Phuong, a manager at a Di Dong Viet store, said: "Besides, demand for iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max is no longer high with more and more people opting for iPhone 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max."

In the second-hand market, 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max are no longer favored mainly because more and more of them reportedly suffer from "the rainbow screen of death" or the screen becoming covered with colored lines.