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    I'd recommend holding out on an upgrade until September just so you can see what the new iPhone has to offer.

    Published: July 6, 2017 -- 04:00 GMT (21:00 PDT)

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Nine Apple products you shouldn't buy

As Apple more and more morphs into a smartphone company (albeit a wildly profitable smartphone company), a number of products in the Apple lineup are being allowed to wither and die. Other products are ready for an imminent update. Here's a list of Apple products that you shouldn't buy.

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iPhone 7

If 2017 is in line with previous years, Apple will unveil a new iPhone in September, which means that with only a few weeks until then, buying an iPhone 7 now doesn't make a huge amount of sense (unless you're existing iPhone is broken and you just have to have a new one).

I'd recommend holding out on an upgrade until September just so you can see what the new iPhone has to offer.

Published: July 6, 2017 -- 04:00 GMT (21:00 PDT)

Caption by: Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

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