Moscow’s GUM sees hundreds of willing to buy new iPhone 7

MOSCOW, Sep 23 (PRIME) -- Several hundreds of people have lined in front of Moscow’s high-street store GUM for Apple’s new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, whose official sales in Russia debuted on Friday.

The queue, which had started forming since early hours of Friday, consisted mainly of young people of 18–25 years.

According to Hi-Tech Mail.Ru, the number of pre-orders for the new iPhone flagship – opened by most resellers on September 16 – reached 20,000, and half of them were placed with mobile operators, also running retail chains.

A source on the telecom market said one of the country’s leading operator collected over 2,000 pre-orders across Russia.

The price of the iPhone 7 starts from 56,990 rubles and of the iPhone 7 Plus from 67,990 rubles.

(63.7942 rubles – U.S. $1)

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