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Apple to sell unlocked iPhone 4

Pre-order pricing announced

Apple UK will sell the iPhone 4 Sim-free.

Pre-order pricing, posted today, puts the 16GB version of the iOS 4 handset at a whopping £499 and the 32GB version at £100 more.

Apple iPhone 4 pre-order

Only black iPhone 4s are available to order now.

A Sim-free iPhone 3GS can be ordered for £419. It has 8GB of storage.

Apple iPhone 4 pre-order

Alas, while Apple has posted iPhone pricing, it hasn't yet put up the pre-order page.

Apple already sells factory-unlocked iPhones in other territories, such as Australia. This is the first time it has done so in the UK.

All three handsets - 3GS, 4 16GB and 4 32GB - will ship on 24 June. ®

An even more obvious question...

Why bother trolling in the first place?

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Why "whopping"?

£499 looks to be about the right price for a new smart phone with 16Gb to me, the HTC Desire has an RRP of £480 for example.

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Twat

Please grow the fuck up. Boo fucking hoo, I cannot run anything but officially overpriced game son my PS3 and Xbox 360 but I have an IQ greater than 3 so I know that before I bought it and don't go crying about it.

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Theres only one way to find out:

fight!

Or fanboi/troll flamewar, which is a bit like a fight, sort of.

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Really?

You can get a SIM free HTC Desire brand new for £250? Where?

I won't go into the whole "twice the phone rubbish"....

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