Cheaper Apple is all about getting you Apple products like the iPhone and iPod for cheaper than you would otherwise know about.

We have a number of options available to US and UK customers where you can get all variations of the iPod (Classic, Touch, Nano and Shuffle, in all sizes) completely free.  These offers are fully explained on the Free iPods page, but the following is a brief description of the process.

1. Sign up to the incentive site
2. Complete your choice of offer (a number of which are free)
3. Get the required number of referrals

Free iPod Referral rates:

• Free iPod Shuffle 2GB:  2 referrals
• Free iPod Nano 8GB/16GB:  5/8 referrals
• Free iPod Classic 80GB/160GB:  7/9 referrals
• Free iPod Touch 8GB/16GB/32GB:  8/12/16 referrals

CLICK HERE TO GET YOUR FREE IPOD

These offers are obviously not as quick as buying the iPod outright, but the fact remains that you can get any iPod of your choice absolutely free.  If you can’t wait a week or two, then view the Cheap iPods articles by clicking the relevant category on the left-hand menu.  You will then be able to find some of the best prices for iPods available on the internet. 

The amazing looking new iPods have arrived, with iPod Nano getting the major overhaul.  They have now gone back to taller look, with an improved screen yet again.  Read below for the best new cheap iPod deals along with a free iPods option (one per household).

The new iPod Nano prices start at £109 direct from Apple for the 8GB version, but they are slightly cheaper when bought from Amazon.  There is the option for a completely free iPod Nano, either visit the free iPods page to find out more or click the link below to go straight to the free iPod site.

Free iPod Nano

New iPod Nano Features:

• New curved edge design
• Accelerometer - shake the iPod to shuffle your music, rotate it sideways to view the coverflow and play games using your movements
• ‘Genius’ DJ - creates playlists by finding the songs in your library that go together
• All aluminium and glass design
• 9 colours
• 2 inch widescreen display

Come back soon for more information on the revamped iPod Touch.

For those looking to get into the Apple Mac market for the first time and on a budget, the cheapest option to go for would be a Mac Mini.

There are two ways to find a cheap Mac Mini, each depending on how quickly you need to get the product. If you can afford to wait two weeks or more, you can go for the option where you get a completely free Mac Mini. To get one this way, click the link below to go straight to the site or visit the free Mac page. This offer is available to US and UK customers only, and limited to one free Mac per household.

Free Apple Mac Mini

Buyers that cannot wait for that amount of time to buy their Apple Mac Mini can find the cheapest option at Amazon. UK customers can find the best choice for a cheap Mac Mini 1.83GHz 80GB at Amazon.co.uk by clicking the image on the right. US visitors should visit Amazon.com

The Mac Mini measures just 6.5 inches square, and is 2 inches tall. Despite the tiny dimensions, Apple has managed to squeeze in 2 MB L2 Cache, an Intel Core 2 Duo 1.83 GHz, 1 GB (installed) / 2 GB (max), 80 GB storage, CD-RW / DVD-ROM combo, wireless internet, bluetooth and much more.

Apple has announced that the iPhone 3G is set to be released on a pay as you go basis.

The new option is surely not going to be very popular, with the £349.99 price tag making it the least cheap iPhone so far.  On top of the huge initial outlay, the pay as you go iPhone users will have to commit to topping up by at least £10 every single month.

O2 will continue to be the only sellers of the pay as you go iPhone 3G, which becomes available to the public on September 16th in Carphone Warehouse and Apple stores.

The cheapest iPhone 3G pay as you go is the 8GB version at £349.99, whilst the 16GB iPhone 3G pay as you go costs £399.99.

These deal include a year of unlimited internet access, using O2’s mobile internet or local wi-fi.  After a year, users will have to pay £10 a month extra to continue using the unlimited internet access.

Whilst the pay as you go iPhone 3G does not look like such a good deal, a contract user of the ‘free’ iPhone will be playing £810 over the course of 18 months, whilst a pay as you go user could end up spending £589.99.

Click the free iPhone or cheap iPhone links to find options where you can get a pay as you go iPhone 3G 8GB and 16GB completely free from an incentive site.  Please note these offers are limited to one per household.

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RIM has announced the BlackBerry Bold, the electronics manufacturer’s first 3G device.

The BlackBerry Bold has already been released in Austria and Germany, with releases in the India, Canada and America in the near future.

RIM has dominated the business user market for a long time with models like the BlackBerry Curve and others, whilst Apple’s iPhone began to threaten this domination with the first model.  Now that a cheap iPhone 3G has been introduced to the market with all the business capabilities of the BlackBerry alternatives, RIM has had to take steps to try and cement its position in the market.

The new BlackBerry Bold offers all the features you would expect from a top-end business phone, plus a 2MP camera with video recording facilities unlike the iPhone 3G, an mp3 player and the essential GPS and Wi-Fi.

One major difference between the two competitors’ models is the choice of keyboard.  The cheaper iPhone 3G has the less-favoured touch-screen keyboard, which many have acknowledged is more of a drag to use when writing any lengthy passages.  The new BlackBerry Bold however, has opted for a Chiclet-style Qwerty keyboard which will always be popular with the hardcore users.

RIM’s deal with Microsoft to incorporate MSN Messenger and Hotmail into the phone will also see it become more popular with the non-business users who are becoming ever more well connected.

Despite the clear cross overs in the markets, 451 Group’s analyst Tony Rizzo forecasted that RIM is likely to have more sucess in the general market than Apple’s iPhone will have in the business market.

“RIM is no longer a mobile office e-mail player. It has evolved into a deeply embedded enterprise vendor, and we continue to push this as the key differentiator.  So, while Apple, Nokia, Motorola and now HTC Corp. continue to compete on enterprise hardware designs, they cannot stack up to RIM in terms of the enterprise ecosystems RIM has in place.

“This remains a crucial difference that will make competition here almost meaningless.

“The battle for higher-end consumers has escalated significantly. The next iPhone will boast 3G and may get out the door before the Bold, but it will be quite interesting to see how the Bold does as a prosumer device.  Our view remains that RIM and Apple are ‘market-complementary’ and that each will continue to find its own set of users.”

Now that Apple’s smaller capacity iPods are storing as much as 8GB if music, they are becoming increasingly popular with those who don’t want to store their whole music collections, those who have smaller collections and can fit it all in 8GB, and those who are on more of a budget.

The Apple iPod Nano 4GB and 8GB have come on a long way since the time of the iPod Mini 2GB, which originally cost $199/£99. The current generation of iPod Nanos cost $145.95/£89 and $197.88/£115 for the cheapest versions of the 4GB and 8GB versions respectively.

Cheaper Apple has also sourced an option for a free Apple iPod Nano, requiring four referrals for a free iPod Nano 4GB, and six referrals for a free iPod Nano 8GB. Click the banner below to claim yours (one per US/UK household). You can find out more information about how the free iPod Nano offer works by visiting the Free iPods page.

Click on one of the options below to go straight to the cheapest iPod Nano deal most relevent to you.

The new iPhone 3G was released on July 11th to huge acclaim. Buyers queued through the night to be the first to get their hands on the new version, with online stockists selling out before the release date due to so many back orders.

Cheaper Apple already has a great free iPhone 3G offer available for US and UK customers – visit the free iPhone page for more information. Cheap iPhone 3G retail offers will be added soon.

iPhone 3G Features:

- 3G Network
- GPS
- White and Black colors, plastic molding
- More Countries: 22 on July 11, 70 total in the coming year
- Exchange Server support
- Flush headphone jack
- Improved Audio
- Thinner edges
- 2.0 Firmware including App Store and more features
- Longer battery life
- Syncs with new service MobileMe (replaces .mac)

The Apple iPhone 3G is available in 8GB and 16GB versions.