Unlocked/Verizon through Apple. It might be more expensive without carrier incentives but I won’t be locked into a plan.
The above comment is correct. Beware, though, be prepared for T-Mobile preordering nightmare. All T-Mobile customers have gone and will generally go through this nightmare every pre-order. Thankfully, I left them and am free for the upgrade headacheCarrier because I can't order with T-Mobile through the app it only offers full retail. No one still has responded why that is still.
I usually schedule them to call me at 11:59 pm (AZ time) and then I wait a min with the rep on the phone and preorder it, took less then 10 mins and had my phones first day ;-). But yeah T-Mobile isn't great with reservingThe above comment is correct. Beware, though, be prepared for T-Mobile preordering nightmare. All T-Mobile customers have gone and will generally go through this nightmare every pre-order. Thankfully, I left them and am free for the upgrade headache![]()