Apple’s iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus smartphones, which were unveiled September 7 and have been open for preorders since September 9, are seeing healthy preorder numbers so far, according to reports from mobile carriers T-Mobile and Sprint.
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According to charismatic T-Mobile CEO John Legere, reports about a supposed lack of interest in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are way overblown.
“The first four days of the iPhone 7 launch are by far the biggest ever for T-Mobile”.
IPhone 7 and 7 Plus pre-orders are up from a year ago, but the tenth-anniversary iPhone that’s expected to be released in 2017 might be worth waiting for, The Verge’s executive editor Walt Mossberg said on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” on Tuesday afternoon. Though the company has not attempted a design change, the new models have no headphone jack.
Apple unveiled its latest flagship smartphone, the iPhone 7, last Wednesday.
For one, Samsung could block the iPhone-maker from licensing its proprietary jack – much like Apple has done with the Android community and other competitors.
One of the most prominent Apple retailer in India, iWorld has started taking pre-registrations for the device.
With the launch of the Apple Watch Series 2, Apple also introduced a new “Edition” model made from ceramic, which in the process also saw Apple discontinue its $10,000 Gold Edition model.
Ditching the home button would allow Apple to significantly shrink the overall size of the iPhone, while not giving up precious screen real estate. But the cheapest 32GB iPhone 7 will cost 599 pounds ($799) in the U.K. That’s equivalent to a price hike of 11% over the iPhone 6S, which was available for 539 pounds.
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Stifel analyst Aaron Rakers commented on the development, saying that these strong numbers suggest how strong Apple’s “significant iPhone installed base expansion” has become over the last couple of years.
