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The Best Apple iPhone 13 Deals: Where To Get The Best Prices
Upgrade your handset with the best deals from around the networks
In case you'd somehow missed it, Apple has finally revealed its latest smartphones for 2021 and beyond with the iPhone 13 lineup, an upgrade to last year's iPhone 12, with improved displays, new photography features and increased battery life.
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If you're itching to get hold of one, all four handsets are available to buy in the UK, and we've been keeping our eye on the best deals from across all the top phone networks. Whether you're coming to the end of your contract and you're looking for an upgrade, or you just want to buy the latest iPhone outright, there are plenty of offers out there to help you get all the data, texts, and minutes you need.
But which one should you go for? Every network has its own perks and downfalls, and if it's been a while since you've entangled yourself in data tariffs it can be a complicated process to navigate. For starters, these are the top networks and retailers who are offering deals so far:
As the iPhone 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro, and 13 Pro Max all have set prices, you won't find too many offers to reduce that total cost, but there will be deals to bring down monthly bills or get you more data. There are even a few offers that give you a free gift like a pair of headphones or a subscription to Apple Music or Amazon Prime Video - because we all love free stuff, don't we?
It’s also worth keeping an eye on the last generation models, the high-spec iPhone 12, iPhone 12 mini and iPhone 12 Pro all got massive discounts after the announcement of the new lineup.
What You Need To Know About The iPhone 13
The overall design of the new iPhones hasn’t changed much since 2020, and all four new phones will look largely the same. The iPhone 13 and 13 mini get five colour choices of pink, blue, black, white, and Apple’s “Product Red”. The Pro and Pro Max editions can come in grey, gold, silver, blue.
The top notch that hides the front-facing lens and call speaker is a tad smaller and the cameras are a little different, but otherwise it's the same design, with the flat aluminium edges and the glass backs.
The iPhone Mini is the smallest of the four, with a 5.4-inch display, a two-lens camera system and a 17-hour battery. The standard iPhone 13 has the same camera system and processor, but with a bigger display and a longer battery, costing a little bit more to buy. You can also get up to 512GB storage on these two models, giving you more space to store apps, documents and all those festival snaps you grabbed over the summer.
Photographers should consider going for the Pro, which has a triple-lens set-up for taking better pictures, and it has an extended battery life up to 22 hours. It’s the same size as the standard phone, but now the display is 120Hz which makes any motion on your screen twice as fast as it used to be, so games, shows you stream, or even just scrolling through Twitter will look smooth.
The Pro and Pro Max are also the first phones to get 1TB storage options, which is truly massive. Seriously, you can house up to 250,000 images if you wanted to so all you trigger-happy snappers should be happy.
If you like the larger handsets from Apple, the iPhone Pro Max has all the good stuff you’ll find in the Pro, but in a larger 6.7-inch handset and with a huge 28-hour battery.
All four handsets now have an IP68 water and dust resistance, which is one of the higher ratings you can get in a smartphone. This should mean your phone will survive a dunk up to 6 metres in water for around 30 minutes – no more drying it out in a bowl of rice... did that ever even work?
iPhone 13 Specs
Display: 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR OLED
Storage options: 128, 256, 512GB
Processor: A15 Bionic
Rear camera: 12MP dual lens (wide and ultrawide)
Selfie camera: 12MP wide TrueDepth
Weight: 174g
Colour options: Red, starlight, midnight, blue, pink
Battery life: 19 hours
iPhone 13 Mini Specs
Display: 5.4-inch Super Retina XDR OLED
Storage options: 128, 256, 512GB
Processor: A15 Bionic
Rear camera: 12MP dual lens (wide and ultrawide)
Selfie camera: 12MP wide TrueDepth
Weight: 141g
Colour options: Red, starlight, midnight, blue, pink
Battery life: 17 hours
iPhone 13 Pro Specs
Display: 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR OLED 120Hz refresh rate
Storage options: 128, 256, 512, 1TB
Processor: A15 Bionic
Rear camera: 12MP triple lens (telephoto, wide and ultrawide)
Selfie camera: 12MP wide TrueDepth
Weight: 204g
Colour options: Graphite, gold, silver, sierra blue
Battery life: 22 hours
iPhone 13 Pro Max Specs
Display: 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR OLED 120Hz refresh rate
Storage options: 128, 256, 512, 1TB
Processor: A15 Bionic
Rear camera: 12MP triple lens (telephoto, wide and ultrawide)
Selfie camera: 12MP wide TrueDepth
Weight: 240g
Colour options: Graphite, gold, silver, sierra blue
Battery life: 28 hours
After the latest iPhone and you're already signed up with EE? One of the best deals we saw gets you 40GB of data on the iPhone 13 Pro for £50 up front and £65 a month.
You can head into EE's official store to change the amount of data you get or add swappable benefits that include a year's subscription to Apple Music or Amazon Prime Video. All phones come with free deliveries from EE, and you can pay a tenner extra to get a warranty and discounts on screen protectors and cases.
Head over to Three's website to see deals that can get you anywhere between 1GB and unlimited data packages over a two-year basis.
One of the best deals we saw on the basic 128GB iPhone 13 Mini with 128GB internal storage has unlimited data for an initial upfront cost of £29.
Then, for the first six months, you'll only pay £28 per month, jumping up to £56 per month from month seven of the two-year deal, saving you heaps at the front-end of your contract.
Meanwhile, the 128GB iPhone 13, with a 1GB data allowance, is available for an upfront cost of £29.
The first six months of the contract are priced at £25 per month, going up to £50 from month 7 until the end of your two-year agreement.
Sky Mobile is also offering contracts on the new iPhones, though you'll get to build the tariff you want rather than getting set deals. Prices for the iPhone 13 start at £27 a month, and you can add in more data, your minutes and calls or other perks to increase the monthly bill and the up-front price.
All four phones are available with this same system, so head over to each phone and build your own plan.
iPhone 13 mini - prices starting from £24
iPhone 13 Pro - prices starting from £30
iPhone 13 Pro Max - prices starting from £33
Mobile Phones Direct have divided its iPhone 13 family options into landing pages to take some of the stress out of buying – one for the iPhone 13 Mini, one for the iPhone 13 itself, one for the iPhone 13 Pro, and finally, one for the iPhone 13 Pro Max. On each page, you can filter by your preferred network (O2, Vodafone or Three), data allowance, monthly cost and upfront cost.
As an example deal, the iPhone 13 is available with 100GB data on a 2-year contract with Three for £49 a month and no up-front fee.
Got the cash to buy the phone outright? John Lewis has deals for all four new handsets where you can just buy the phone up front and then pop in your own SIM card to reduce your monthly bills.
Double the internal storage to 256GB for £799, or double it again to get the maximum storage of 512GB for £979.
Photographers among you will want to go for the iPhone 13 Pro, which has an enhanced camera set up (including three lenses) and a better display.
The basic package with 128GB will be £949. The 256GB edition will be £1049. Double that to the 512GB version of the iPhone 13 Pro for £1,249.
And for the first time ever, you'll be able to get the new iPhone 13 Pro with a huge 1TB internal storage for £1,449.
Just like the John Lewis offers above, you can buy the handset outright with Currys for one total fee and then you'll be able to put whatever SIM card you want in to reduce your monthly costs.
Apple iPhone 13 - £1,079
Apple iPhone 13 mini - £979
Apple iPhone 13 Pro - £1,449
Apple iPhone 13 Pro Max - £1,549
If you're with O2, you can the four new iPhone 13 handsets right now and customise your plan with the data you want.
For example, you can get the 128GB iPhone 13 with 50GB of data for £30 upfront and a monthly cost of £46.99. That's on a 3-year handset plan and a monthly rolling airtime plan.
Note that O2's airtime plans increase in April 2022, and that rise will also take into account the RPI rate of inflation. You can find out more here.
Vodafone is also running several deals on the newer iPhones, and we liked the look of the unlimited data packages you can get on the iPhone 13 Pro.
It has all the minutes, data, and texts you'll need for £47 a month and £49 up front. If you trade in an old phone you can reduce your up-front cost and drop it down to £32 a month.
This offer applies to all 4 handsets so take your pick and get unlimited data.
iPhone 13 mini - £40 a month and £29 up front (down to £25 a month with a trade-in)
iPhone 13 - £43 a month and £29 up front (down to £28 a month with a trade-in)
iPhone 13 Pro Max - £54 a month and £49 up front (down to £39 a month with a trade-in)
Owen Gough is an expert in all things tech, including top deals, phone upgrades, wearables, audio gear and gaming. You can get in touch with Owen on Twitter @OwenGough
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