“Demand for new products turned out to be almost five times higher than in the first week of iPhone 15 pre-orders last year,” said Andrey Gubanov, general director of the MTS retail network.
For example, you can buy an iPhone 16 with 128 GB for 114,990 rubles, an iPhone 16 Plus with 256 GB for 149,990 rubles, an iPhone 16 Pro with 512 GB for 199,990 rubles, and an iPhone 16 Pro Max with 1 TB for 254,990 rubles.
It also became known that the iPhone 16 was brought to Russia by M.Video-Eldorado. BigGeek and Yandex.Market are launching sales of new Apple products.
The presentation of the new iPhone 16 and other new Apple products took place on September 9. The day before, it was announced that in the first few days the new products would be sold at prices of up to 500 thousand rubles. But the expectations of resellers were not met.
All four iPhone 16 models have a touch-sensitive shutter button and camera controls, while the iPhone 16 Pro finally gets the 5x tetraprism lens that was previously exclusive to the iPhone 15 Pro Max. Users can also use the camera control button as a tool to access Visual Intelligence, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature. It will appear in iOS 18 and will be able to speak to the objects the cameras are pointed at. The feature is similar to Google Lens. However, it is currently unknown whether it will work in Russia. In December 2024, Apple Intelligence will be available in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and South Africa, and next year Apple AI will be available in China, France, Japan, and Spain. Accordingly, in these countries, Apple Intelligence will work in Chinese, French, Japanese, and Spanish.
