Apple iPhone 16: Major New Deal Offers iPhone For Free, With Or Without Trade-In

The iPhone 16 is Apple’s latest phone series. It costs from $799, but you can pay much less. In fact, with deals such as the latest ones from Verizon, you can pay nothing at all. Here are the details.
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The Trade-In Deal
This is what Verizon calls its Red Hot Deal Days event, (link here)and it means that if you trade in a qualifying phone and sign up to a three-year installment plan with the Unlimited Ultimate tariff, Verizon will pay for the phone. The company offers this with the words, “Get a phone, tablet & watch, all on us,” so it’s not just limited to the iPhone.
To take advantage of this deal there is small print. Notably, “Trade-in must be from Apple, Google, Motorola or Samsung; trade-in terms apply,” it says.
With a suitable phone for trade-in, what happens is that you must trade it in within 30 days of purchase. For upgrades, the phone must have been active for 60 days before the trade-in.
As it says on the site, if you trade in, you can save up to $830, which is the full price of the iPhone 16 with 128GB storage.
This means that the $23.05 monthly cost is reduced to $0 because, guess what, 36 x $23.05 is $829.80 or, in other words, the full cost of the phone.