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One of the years iPhones is now available for free.

Electronista says Best Buy is now offering Apple's unapologetically plastic iPhone 5C

for free with a two-year contract. That's the 16 gigabyte version in any of its 5

colors with an eligible upgrade or new contract through AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon.

Before you start beating the gloom, boom, and doom drum for the 5C, the retailer has actually

lowered the price for all of the 5C's and 5s it has to offer.

According to the piece, the 32 gigabyte iPhone 5c is now available for $80 on contract.

The iPhone 5s meanwhile is also selling for less.

Best Buy is currently charging 125 for a 16 gigabyte model.

225 for a 32 gigabyte communicator and $325 for a 64 gigabyte phone, each with a new two-year

contract, of course. Best Buy has not indicated how long the discount

prices will be in effect. Things appear no less the Michael Bromwich, the antitrust compliance monitor installed at the company by

Judge Denise Coate, has filed documents with Judge Coate saying Apple is obstructing his

work. Apple would likely disagree. Papers filed with the court earlier by the

Cupertino company have it saying that there's actually nothing for Bromwich to

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