He's talking about Eastern Europe.

Thanks for the correction. However, the initial statement still seems off. According to http://www.ceepharma.com/data/2/average-monthly-gross-wage-i..., the average wage (I couldn't find stats on minimum wage) in Eastern Europe ranges from ~250 USD in Ukraine to ~1050 USD in Czech Republic, so the cost of a ~650 USD iPhone is between 2.5 weeks and 2.5 months of wages.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/..., here are the minimum wages in Europe.

In Romania, the cheapest iPhone 6 is 736 euro, which is 4.5 times more than the minimum salary after tax or 2 times more than the average salary. But the average salary is skewed because we have a big income disparity. There are a few fields, like IT, that earn way more than the other fields.

Now, depending on his location, he'll have a different definition of Eastern Europe. If you're west of Romania, you'll probably say you're in Central Europe, that's usually the geographic definition. From what I can understand, for many people outside Europe, Eastern Europe means countries that were in the URSS' sphere of influence.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe, "The United Nations Statistics Division developed a selection of geographical regions and groupings of countries and areas, which are or may be used in compilation of statistics. In this collection, the following ten countries were classified as Eastern Europe: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, and Ukraine."

Yes, but that is not the definition people actually use.