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iPhone 7 deals: pre-orders are live and we're picking the best deals

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These are links to where iphone 7 can be purchased

iPhone 7 deals: quick links

Dixons Carphone sites are usually a good place to look if you want to take the temperature of the mobile phone deals market. The combined might of Carphone Warehouse, Mobiles.co.uk, e2save and iD Mobile means the group buys in such volume it can use economies of scale to its advantage.
With that in mind, the first Carphone Warehouse iPhone 7 deals that were revealed to us under embargo last night are as follows:
Deals from all of the other sites are coming through to us right now. Sites to watch are usual suspect resellers Mobiles.co.uk, Buymobiles.net and Mobile Phones Direct as well as CPW's own network iD Mobile. The big networks are normally a bit more expensive to buy from direct but everyone will likely be a bit of awkward manoeuvring in the early stages. Expect prices to move about a bit until release next Friday and beyond.

Don't rely on those deals above being the cheapest because they're probably not - we're going to spend the next few hours looking through all of the iPhone 7 deals in the UK to pull out what we think are the very best offers. We'll be back in a bit to replace this article with a full 'iPhone 7 deals' page.

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It's not possible to say precisely what the iPhone 7 will cost you on contract just yet - we're waiting on networks like EE and resellers like Mobiles.co.uk and Buymobiles.net to release their prices. What we do know is that the iPhone 7 deals will be available for pre-order this coming Friday with an 'on sale' date of September 16th which is Friday next week.
In the meantime we can make some educated guesses about what the first iPhone 7 deals might be like.
Firstly, we do know that the iPhone 7 will cost £599 to buy outright in the UK. That comes in exactly as we predicted last week - slightly more expensive than last year probably due to a slightly weaker pound (thanks Brexit!).
From this we can attempt to derive the cost of a standard iPhone 7 deal at a site like Mobiles.co.ukbased on last year's iPhone 6S launch deals and the slight increase in cost this time around.


iPhone 7 retail deals: starting at £599

Available to buy instore and online on September 16th
We don't need to try and predict the price anymore - Apple has confirmed that the iPhone 7 will have a starting cost of £599 in the UK. That's if you want to buy it from the Apple Store itself and it'll probably cost the same amount for the first few weeks whether you get it from Amazon or Carphone Warehouse.
The £599 price tag is what you'll pay for the 32GB version of the iPhone 7. That is, of course, unless you want the new Jet Black iPhone 7 which is annoyingly unavailable in 32GB trim - presumably that's Apple predicting it'll be the most desirable new colour and charging a premium as a result. Or maybe the less cynical explanation is that shiny black costs more to produce... you decide.
Either way, if you want that version you'll have to go for a 128GB option which will cost you £699 (across all colours) while the bumper 256GB version will set you back another hundred quid at £799.

 

iPhone 7 contract deals: what to expect

Pre-orders available September 9th, delivery September 16th
If we're to predict what the early iPhone 7 deals will be on contract, we can look at the prices that EE, O2 and company were charging for the iPhone 6S in September last year.
Back then, the deals were hard to find with anything less than a £100 upfront cost. Even then, monthly fees of over £40 were the norm. The cheapest deal with 1GB data was on Three - that network was charging £99 upfront and £38 per month for 1GB and unlimited everything else. That's about what we'd expect to see this time around as well, though because the retail cost is slightly more this year we're expecting the iPhone 7 deals from resellers and networks to be a tad pricier as well.
The deals will start coming through Thursday night/Friday so we'll let you know as soon as we find out what they are. In the meantime, here's our prediction:

iPhone 7 predicted deals:


iPhone 7 32GB | £100 upfront | Unlimited calls and texts | 1GB data | £40 per month
Obviously don't count your chickens on this one - we'll be back when the pre-order deals are actually announced to help you find the absolute best value iPhone 7 deals. We'll also be working hard to negotiate some exclusive discounts just for TechRadar readers so that you'll be able to save some money.

iPhone 7 deals quick links: Mobiles.co.uk | Buymobiles.net | Mobile Phones Direct | e2save.com
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