Keen to buy an iPhone 6 for the least amount of money? You could scour eBay for one of the #bendgate victims. Or someone annoyed at #hairgate. Alternatively, you can check out our round-up of the cheapest options for getting your hand on Apple's latest and arguably greatest smartphone.
Vodafone
The cheapest contract from Vodafone is £43.50 a month with an upfront cost of £99. For this you get unlimited UK minutes and standard UK texts plus 4GB of data. So that's £1,143 overall for a 16GB iPhone 6. Expect to pay £129 upfront and £48.50 over 24 months for the 64GB model if you want more storage.
Buy iPhone 6 from Vodafone
Three
Three offers a 16GB iPhone 6 with 1GB of data, unlimited texts and minutes for £38 per month over two years. An upfront cost of £99 for the device brings the total to £1,011. Double-up on data and the overall cost increases to £1,083. Three's 1GB plan at £42-a-month and an upfront cost of £19 actually works out more expensive, at £1,107.
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O2
O2's cheapest iPhone 6 16GB contract deal gets you 4G access, unlimited texts and minutes plus 2GB of data over a 24-month total. Total cost: £1,041.99. The £629.99 and £18-a-month alternative actually works out £20 more so it's not worth it unless you prefer a lower monthly outgoing.
Buy iPhone 6 from O2
EE
Expect 2GB of data, unlimited minutes and unlimited texts on top of 4G access with EE if you are happy paying £40.99 for two years and £99.99 upfront for the device itself. That's a total of £1,083.75.
The £35.99-a-month and £139.99 upfront cost reduces the overall total to £1,003.75, but you drop down to 1,000 minutes and 1GB of data so you're more likely to go over your limit and bump up your bill. You can go even cheaper but 500MB is too little for a smartphone, as is 500 minutes.
GiffGaff
GiffGaff and its 'goodybags' work out cheap. Buy the iPhone 6 16GB at £549 and spend £10 a month for as long as you want. That gets you 500 minutes, 1GB of data and unlimited texts. Overall that's £798, making it the cheapest we could find.
Even if you opt for the £18 goodybag, which gets you 2,000 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data, your total bill over two years would be £971. Factor in the £18 charge for cancelling or changing your goodybag and you still end up paying less over 24 months ─ ignoring the fact you could, in theory, upgrade early to something else at any time.
SIM-free
Buy from Apple and the 16GB iPhone costs £539. £619 gets you 64GB and £699 gets you the top-spec 128GB. We would recommend 64GB is the happy medium because you can burn through 16GB quite easily once you take out the space eaten up by the operating system.
Then you can go for one of the various pay and go options out there, including GiffGaff's £12 goodybag, which gets you 500 UK minutes, unlimited texts and 3GB of internet.
The sheer upfront cost of going for a SIM-free iPhone 6 will be a turn-off for most people, assuming you can even afford it, but it's cheaper in the long run as you can leave at any time and you won't get hit by any strange charges for overrunning your data or whatnot.
