1 You’ll Own Your iPhone
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If you buy your iPhone used, or simply pay the full price for it up front, there’s another upside for you: you’ll own your device outright. It’ll be yours, period. That, of course, means you’ll automatically get some of the other benefits from this list. But it also means that you’re free to do with it as you please. And if you happen to break it, your carrier can’t hold you liable for damages.
You could sell it at any time for extra cash (perhaps toward a new iPhone), give it away to a family member if you have your eyes on a different device, or just keep it and have multiple smartphones to play around with.