So you want the latest iPhone. You want a beautiful high resolution touch screen. You want a phone that takes pictures, lets you listen to music or watch movies and makes surfing the web easy. You want a high speed 3G iPhone but you would rather not pay for it. Well we would all like to get an iPhone for free but sadly in life there is always a catch.

The most obvious way to get a free iPhone is to sign up to a long term contract with a service provider. This means you will be committing to paying a monthly fee for your service. You will get the handset up front for a small charge or for completely free but you will have to pay monthly for a minimum of one year. Most deals will have a two year minimum contract and in return for your payments you will get a certain amount of talk time and a number of texts. The majority of providers will expect you to commit to quite a hefty contract in order to get the free handset.

If you use your mobile phone a lot then contract deals are definitely the best way to go. However, because the iPhone is a lot more expensive than most mobile phones, you will often still be expected to pay something for the handset. Even if you do get the phone for free you will be tied into a contract which will end up costing you a large sum of money and you will not be able to break out of the contract without paying a penalty.

Don’t despair the contract is not the only route to securing a free iPhone. Another way you can get the device for absolutely nothing is to complete an online offer. In order to avoid paying anything you will need to be careful about how you do this and check the terms and conditions very carefully. It is becoming increasingly common for people to take advantage of freebie offers and for this reason they can be cancelled at short notice.

There are various websites out there which guide you through the process and earn themselves referral fees at the same time. You don’t really need to use them. None of the websites can really get you an iPhone for nothing. If you try out a website like FreebieJeebies you will get access to a number of offers but you still have to sign up for a trial of a product and you will be expected to refer potential customers in order to earn your free iPhone.

The trials will all involve signing up for a service. Some of them such as the Coral bookmaker service will require you to deposit £5 and have a bet on the site. Once you have completed the sign up for yourself you will be required to introduce a number of new people. You will need to get a fixed number of other people to sign up for the same deal that you signed up to before you will get any rewards. There are other websites which offer the same kind of deals such as Gift Monkey.

This definitely works if you can get enough extra people to sign up but it will require you contacting family or friends. Some people will not appreciate being spammed with this type of offer and it does work on the same principle as a pyramid scheme. The only way each new member can get their free reward is to introduce more new members.

If you don’t want to sign up for a contract and the trial sign up websites are not for you then there is one final way to get an iPhone without paying. Enter competitions to win an iPhone. For example the website OneCompare.com is currently offering UK residents the chance to win an iPhone in a free prize draw.