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T-Mobile (TMUS) and Sprint (S) appear on Tuesday pre-orders for Apple's new buzz are up about four times from the antecedent two models, the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6S.
Pre-sales, which began Friday, were the better in T-Mobile's history, breaking annal for both single-day orders and pre-sales placed in the aboriginal four days.
"It's like four times bigger than the iPhone 6 for us at the pre-order stage," T-Mobile CEO John Legere said in a Periscope advertisement on Monday night.
Meanwhile, Sprint accent in a columnist absolution that pre-orders of the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus are up added than 375% in the aboriginal three pre-sale days, compared to the aforementioned aeon aftermost year.
Both carriers are alms promotions for barter to accept a new chargeless accessory aback you barter in a Samsung Galaxy 7, the iPhone 6, iPhone 6S or added acceptable phones.
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Apple has not yet responded to a appeal for comment. Aftermost week, the aggregation said it would not absolution its aboriginal weekend sales abstracts this year for the aboriginal time in its iPhone history.
"These antecedent sales will be absolute by supply, not demand, and we accept absitively that it is no best a adumbrative metric for our investors and customers," Apple said in a statement.
Overwhelming appeal for the two new atramentous colors -- matte atramentous and jet atramentous -- already prompted Apple to advance aback commitment dates of the archetypal to as backward as November.
"We're gonna be affective things out as fast as we can," Legere said in his Periscope alive stream.
He added that the matte atramentous blush has been the best pre-ordered color.
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The new iPhone 7 and beyond iPhone 7 Plus were apparent aftermost week, alongside a new waterproof Apple Watch, at a columnist accident in San Francisco.
Apple gave anniversary iPhone archetypal a addition in anamnesis -- it retired its 16GB offering; models now alpha with 32 GB -- a abundant bare upgrade. The iPhone 7 is now waterproof up to one beat of water. Both phones accept additionally ditched the headphone jack.
The new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus will be accessible in food on Friday, September 16, starting at $649.
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