The next iPhone
The iPhone 8 was announced last week with little fanfare, however there has been an unimaginable rush for the new iPhone. The iPhone 8 prices are relatively cheap compared to previous versions with many carriers offering the phone for free on medium priced plans.
The queus outside the Apple stores around Australia have started to form. Australia is seen as valuable in the eyes of Apple as it has been bumped up to a tier one country meaning it is one of the first countries to be able to get the iPhone. The other countries classified as tier one are obviously the USA, United Kingdom, Japan, France and Germany.
The new iPhones normally go on sale in Australia from 8am on the 14th of October. It has been a fierce battle between the carriers to win over the huge customer base that the iPhone attracts and many carriers have been offering the best iPhone plans that are extremely competitive. With a Telstra discount code it improves the great deals available.
A spokesperson for the company Telstra has said that there has been so much demand for models like the iPhone X that they will not be allowing staff to purchase the new iPhone for at least two weeks to ensure that as many customers as possible will receive the phone.
Another carrier, Optus, switched on their pre-ordering website on Monday and had so much traffic that they had to bring it down temporarily.
Vodafone has gone in all guns blazing with the lowest priced plans of the four major carriers. This is partly due to the bad year that they have had with their network issues and poor publicity which has seen them shed a huge amount of their customer base.