Every year, I trial implicit 30 smartphones to spot which ones are worthy your hard-earned dollars. Guess what? The pursuing Black Friday telephone deals see galore of my top-rated recommendations—now astatine a much tenable price. If your existent instrumentality is connected its past legs, this is the champion clip of the twelvemonth to upgrade. (I don't expect prices to driblet overmuch much connected Cyber Monday, but don't punctuation me.) Whether you request a caller Samsung phone, Google Pixel, oregon adjacent an iPhone, this database has each the apical discounts, adjacent deals connected cases and accessories. All these smartphone deals are for unlocked devices (except for the iPhones).
WIRED Featured Deals
- Our fave smartphone: Google Pixel 8A for $399 ($100 off)
- The Pixel upgrade: Google Pixel 9 Pro for $799 ($200 off)
- The cheapest folding flip phone: Motorola Razr (2023) for $350 ($50 off)
- A flagship Samsung Galaxy: Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra for $950 ($100 off)
- The lone authoritative woody from Apple: Get up to a $200 acquisition card
WIRED's Gear squad tests products year-round and handpicked these Black Friday deals. I've covered merchantability events similar Prime Day and Black Friday for astir a decade, arsenic person galore of my colleagues. We'll update this usher regularly passim Black Friday and Cyber Monday by adding caller deals, correcting prices, and removing dormant deals.
Flagship Phone Deals
The full Pixel 9 series is seeing its archetypal large discount, and these Pixel deals are beauteous fantastic, particularly connected the Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL (9/10, WIRED Recommends). The quality betwixt these 2 is purely size and battery—the Pixel 9 Pro XL's surface is 6.8 inches versus the Pixel 9 Pro's 6.3 inches, and its artillery tin comfortably past a small much than a afloat day. Everything other is the same. However, there's a bigger spread betwixt the Pixel 9 and the Pro phones. The cheapest successful the lineup, the Pixel 9 lacks the 5X zoom camera and the vapor enclosure cooling system, meaning it volition get warmer faster. I accidental spell Pro, but if your fund doesn't agelong arsenic high, see the Pixel 8A (see below). Read our Best Pixel 9 Cases guide to support it safe!
Samsung's Galaxy S24 bid is its flagship telephone scope of 2024, comprised of the Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, and the Galaxy S24 Ultra (8/10, WIRED Recommends). Keep successful caput that Samsung is expected to debut a successor successful conscionable astir a period and a half—the Galaxy S25 series. If you don't request the latest and greatest, past these are coagulated Galaxy deals. I'm partial to the Galaxy S24 Ultra due to the fact that it has a 5X optical zoom camera and the S Pen stylus baked wrong (which you tin usage arsenic a distant shutter for the camera. It besides looks a small much interesting.
OnePlus, similar Samsung, is besides rumored to beryllium releasing a successor to its OnePlus 12 flagship successful January 2025. But that telephone volition astir apt outgo person to $1,000, and it volition beryllium galore much months earlier it's astatine a terms similar the OnePlus 12. This 2024 Android flagship is simply a heck of a telephone (8/10, WIRED Recommends). It's ace smooth, supports wireless charging, and I was adjacent capable to deed 2 days of artillery beingness connected a azygous charge. Oh, and the OnePlus 12 tin adjacent recharge to afloat successful conscionable 30 minutes. How brainsick is that?
Phone Deals Under $500
This is my top smartphone pick for astir people. It's well-rounded—you tin telephone it the Renaissance Phone due to the fact that it does a spot of everything well. The Pixel 8A (8/10, WIRED Recommends) has a sharp, colorful, and agleam AMOLED display, h2o resistance, wireless charging, 7 years of bundle support, and fantabulous performance. It was already fantastic worth astatine its MSRP, but this woody makes it a steal. I didn't adjacent interaction connected the galore large bundle features that volition marque you support coming backmost to Pixel phones. For more, work my Google Pixel buying guide.
The brand-new Galaxy S24 FE—which stands for “Fan Edition”—is a spot of a pugnacious merchantability astatine its MSRP due to the fact that it's not acold successful terms from the flagship Galaxy S24, but it's an implicit beast of a telephone astatine this merchantability price. Seriously, a triple-camera strategy with a 3X optical zoom for nether $500? That's rare. It's benignant of similar the Galaxy S24+ but with lesser specs each around, though you won't consciousness the quality each that much. The surface is inactive a 120-Hz AMOLED panel, and the Exynos processor is rather chipper.
If you're a dense gamer, past I deliberation the OnePlus 12R is simply a amended acceptable for anyone connected a budget. It packs past year's Snapdragon 8 Gen 2, which tin grip astir demanding games without excessively overmuch issue. The AMOLED surface is ample astatine 6.78 inches (and sports a 120-Hz surface refresh rate), and the 5,500-mAh artillery lasted maine astir 2 days. The camera is decent, but the charging velocity is much impressive—like the OnePlus 12, it goes from zero to 100 successful astir 30 minutes. Just cognize that its h2o absorption is lackluster (IP64), there's nary wireless charging, and bundle enactment isn't arsenic agelong arsenic the Pixel 8A.
The Moto G Power 5G (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is hands-down the champion worth successful a smartphone close now. Not lone is this the best Moto G smartphone Motorola has ever made, but astatine this discounted price, you're getting a fantastic instrumentality each around. Performance with the MediaTek Dimensity 7020 is bully capable that I ne'er got frustrated oregon annoyed, the 120-Hz 6.7-inch LCD surface gets agleam capable successful the sun, and there's adjacent wireless charging (NFC too, finally). The biggest downside is erstwhile Motorola updates it to Android 15, that's each the bundle updates you'll get, but for 2 much years of information updates. But hey, it's $200.
The Motorola Edge is simply a overmuch more tenable buy astatine $350, though I'd archetypal steer you to the Pixel oregon OnePlus above. It volition lone get 2 Android OS upgrades and 3 years of information updates, but astatine slightest you get each the perks you'd privation successful a phone, from wireless charging, IP68 h2o resistance, NFC for contactless payments, and an AMOLED 6.6-ich surface with a 144-Hz refresh rate. Performance is beauteous large acknowledgment to the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 chip. My main gripes are that the cameras aren't great, and I'm not a instrumentality of waterfall displays that curve the solid astatine the edges. But that's virtually the constituent of this phone. Edge. Get it?
The Moto G Stylus 5G has the aforesaid large responsibility arsenic the Moto G Power 5G above—it volition lone get 1 Android bundle update to Android 15 (though 3 years of information updates). If you're chill with that, show is simply a smidge amended and mostly lag-free, and there's a bully faux leather backmost that's fun. The surface gets an upgrade to OLED (120 Hz), but the 1 instrumentality that makes this 1 unsocial is successful the name. Yep, similar the Galaxy S24 Ultra, there's a stylus built into the bottommost of this telephone for eventual doodling. Did I notation there's a headphone jack? Remember those?
A $100 smartphone that won't marque you privation to rip retired your hair? Yep, it exists. The Moto G Play lone supports 4G LTE, which there's inactive plentifulness of, truthful it shouldn't springiness you connectivity problems. Performance, each things considered, is amazingly solid. Apps motorboat dilatory and it mightiness consciousness laborious moving from 1 app to another, but it's not frustrating. Just don't fuss with the camera.
Folding Phone Deals
Flip phones! Like the bully ol' days! Except this one's a smartphone too. The Razr+ (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is Motorola's latest folding flip telephone and, yes, it comes successful hot pink. The exterior surface is bully and large, capable to adjacent usage immoderate apps successful a speedy pinch. Open it up and the 6.9-inch OLED surface feels similar a mean phone. Performance is large and the cameras are amended than before, though artillery beingness is inactive a spot lackluster. Still, it's excessively stylish and amusive to usage for that to beryllium a deal-breaker. You tin prevention adjacent much if you spell with the modular Razr, connected merchantability for $425 ($275 off), but the show isn't arsenic creaseless and the outer surface is smaller and little useful.
I truly privation the Pixel 9 Pro Fold (6/10, WIRED Recommends) had the aforesaid camera strategy arsenic the modular Pixel 9 Pro (it's precise similar, but the results aren't arsenic crisp), but it's different my favorite folding phone that's shaped similar a book. The beforehand surface is astir identical to the Pixel 9 Pro's 6.3-inch display, meaning it feels similar a mean device, and it helps that the full happening is truthful thin. Open it up and you get a immense 8-inch OLED sheet for streaming shows, multitasking, and gaming. I'd ne'er bargain a telephone that costs astir $2,000, but astatine this price? Maaaaybe.
I deliberation Samsung mightiness person made a mistake. You tin presently get the company's latest, priciest folding smartphone—the Galaxy Z Fold6 (7/10, WIRED Recommends)—directly from Samsung.com for a small much than $1,000. Wha? Seriously, this is simply a monolithic driblet connected the book-like folding phone, which has an improved and larger beforehand surface and slimmer design. I similar the Pixel 9 Pro Fold more, but this terms is acold excessively tempting. Samsung besides has been making folding phones acold longer than astir brands, truthful it's easier to repair if thing goes wrong.
I similar Motorola's Razr+ but Samsung's Galaxy Z Flip6 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) bests it successful a fewer ways: longer bundle support, amended physique quality, amended cameras, and faster performance. But I inactive deliberation the Razr+ has much charm and has the much utile and larger outer screen screen. Still, this is simply a large terms connected a comparatively caller flagship folding phone.
Deals connected Last Year's Phones
- Google Pixel 8 for $448: Snag a flagship Pixel for fractional the cost. (7/10, WIRED Recommends)
- Google Pixel 8 Pro for $593: Arguably an adjacent amended woody considering the size bump and 5X camera. (7/10, WIRED Recommends)
- OnePlus Open for $1,200: Rumors suggest determination whitethorn not beryllium a succesor, which could marque this a novelty point successful 10 years. Or a paperweight. Either way, this is inactive 1 of my favourite folding phones. (7/10, WIRED Recommends)
- Motorola Razr (2023) for $350: This is the cheapest folding telephone you tin buy. Pretty unthinkable for $350. It's the somewhat lesser spec mentation of the Razr+ from 2023.
Black Friday iPhone Deals
I ever urge buying an unlocked smartphone. However, Apple ne'er discounts the iPhone, and Americans overwhelmingly bargain smartphones from carriers directly. So, contiguous I'm going to break my 1 rule. Below are a fewer of the champion offers the large US carriers person connected the iPhone. Make definite you look astatine the good print; determination are hoops to leap done to get the savings.
T-Mobile: If you power to T-Mobile, you tin get 4 iPhone 16 models for escaped erstwhile you activate 4 lines for $25 per line. The caveat? The savings travel arsenic measure credits implicit 24 months, and if you cancel your relationship earlier it's over, the credits halt flowing and you'll request to wage a balance. You besides person to commercialized successful 4 eligible devices to get the deal.
Verizon: Buy an iPhone 16 Pro oregon iPhone 16 Pro Max with a caller enactment connected the Unlimited Ultimate program (you tin upgrade your telephone program too), and you tin get a escaped 10th-gen iPad and Apple Watch Series 10. You request a telephone to commercialized successful first, and you'll request a program for the iPad and Apple Watch for cellular connectivity excessively (that's however they get you). These “savings” get arsenic measure credits implicit 36 months, truthful you're locked to that contract. Be wary of activation fees. Honestly, my caput wounded speechmaking the good print.
AT&T: You tin get an iPhone 16 for escaped if you trade-in an eligible instrumentality and upgrade oregon take a prime unlimited plan. The savings are successful the signifier of measure credits, applied implicit 36 months. (This besides applies to the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max.)
If You Don't Mind Used iPhones (Unlocked)
It is imaginable to find Black Friday iPhone deals connected unlocked devices—no bearer to woody with—but the catch? These devices are each Amazon Renewed, truthful their prime tin vary. Make definite to cheque the prime standing and effort to purpose for “Excellent.” Also, aft you person your device, if the telephone does not conscionable those expectations, instrumentality pictures and taxable a assertion for a return. There's a 90-day instrumentality window.