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The new Apple iPhone 7 Plus, Bought direct from olixar leather-style iphone xr wallet stand case - rose gold Apple, the iPhone 7 starts at £599, unlocked and SIM-free, It's also included in an upgrade programme in which you can pay for the phone in monthly instalments then swap it for the next model in a year's time, Carphone Warehouse is also selling the new iPhone, and will give you a trade-in deal of £200 on your iPhone 6, As usual, all the networks offer the iPhone with a contract, including EE, O2, Three and Vodafone, Three deals come with Feel At Home, which gives you free roaming in a wide range of countries..
O2 includes the iPhone in its Yearly Upgrade Programme, which means you'll be able to trade it in for a brand spanking new iPhone 8 (or 7S, or whatever it's called) in a year's time. Selected deals also allow you to stream music from SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes or Deezer without eating into your data allowance. Deals from EE include the option of six months' subscription to the Apple Music streaming service, as well as a BT Sport subscription to watch, you guessed it, sport. At the time of writing, EE's website was down, placing visitors in a queue.
Meanwhile Vodafone customers on selected plans can olixar leather-style iphone xr wallet stand case - rose gold choose to subscribe to Spotify Premium, Sky Sports Mobile TV or Now TV, The Apple Watch Series 2 also goes on sale on 16 September, Here are the prices of the two new phones in a handy-dandy table, Sweeteners from UK retailers and networks include trade-in deals on your old phone and free subscriptions to services such as BT Sport, Apple Music and Now TV, The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are available to preorder today, Place your order today and Apple's latest smartphone will arrive in your hot sweaty hands on 16 September..
Apple's CEO Tim Cook meeting with China's Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli last month. And make no mistake -- China has been a big focus of Apple's this year. The company invested $1 billion in Uber rival Didi Chuxing in May, likely to help win favour with the local government, and last month CEO Tim Cook announced Apple would be opening a research centre in the country. Back in June, at the company's WWDC keynote, there were a few not-too-subtle hints that Apple wanted a bigger piece of China. Despite the effort, numbers aren't improving. Counterpoint Research shows that Oppo's R9 outsold the iPhone 6S in China back in June, with sales dropping 33 percent year-on-year. This isn't a problem particular to the People's Republic though, as Apple in April reported its first ever drop in phone sales and continued that trend the following quarter.
