Apple iPhone 7 India launch: E-commerce platforms line up exciting pre-booking offers

Apple iPhone 7 India launch: E-commerce platforms line up exciting pre-booking offers

Apple's latest and much-awaited iphone 7 and iphone 7 plus will go on sale in India on October 7 and many e-commerce platforms have already opened pre-orders fo the new smartphone, with exciting offers.

Flipkart recently entered into a partnership with Apple, through which it can now directly source the phones from Apple instead of getting them through third party retailers. Tata CLiQ, Tata Group's e-commerce platform also joined hands with Apple to offer the phone on its website. Amazon will, however, continue selling the Apple phones through third party retailers.

The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus start from Rs 60,000 and Rs 72,000 and go up to Rs 80,000 and Rs 92,000, respectively.

Tata CLiQ said that its customers can pre-order the iPhone and the iPhone plus on its platform starting from October 4 till October 7, 11 am. The iPhone will go on sale on Tata CLiQ on October 7 from 7 pm onwards. Tata Group's online platform will have both the new iPhones available in silver, gold, rose gold colours, in 32 GB, 128 GB, and 256 GB variants. The much-touted new jet black iPhones will be available in 128GB and 256GB variants.

Flipkart has the gold, rose gold, black and silver options available for pre-ordering. The iPhone 7 silver and black 32GB variant, the jet black 128 GB and 256 GB variants, and the iPhone 7 Plus 128 GB variant recently went out of stock.

The e-commerce giant has also promised to deliver the iPhones on October 7 by 7:00 pm, however, this is only in metro cities like Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru where it has express delivery service.

Amazon India has limited options and is currently only offering the 256 GB black variant of the iphone 7 and iPhone 7 plus.