The big sale season is about to start once again, and when it does, we’ll curate all of the best Black Friday phone deals. There’s no need to spend your Black Friday weekend trawling through countless online stores when you can just bookmark this page and find everything all together in one place.
The best gaming phones are already going to be a pricey purchase, so it makes sense to time your purchases to coincide with Black Friday. That’ll take a bit of the sting out of the cost. Beyond phones, we’ll also be looking at the best phone controllers and other accessories so that we can help you find the bargains you need for anything phone-related.
Best phone deals ahead of Black Friday
While Black Friday is still a little while away, here are the cell phone deals that are already available:
- Amazon (US): save over $100 on Amazon’s cell phone deals
- Amazon (UK): browse all of Amazon’s daily mobile deals
- Best Buy: save $450 on Motorola
- Mint Mobile: premium plans just $15/mo
- Samsung: up to $559 instant trade-in credit
- Verizon: $1,600 value rewards for Apple products
- Carphone Warehouse (UK): claim a Galaxy Watch FE with select purchases
Got any questions about Black Friday? Check out the FAQs below:
When is Black Friday 2024?
This year, Black Friday falls on November 29. Usually, it’s a little earlier, but since it always follows Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving itself is a little later this year, so too are the seasonal sales. This has a knock-on effect on Cyber Monday which doesn’t even fall in November this year, but on December 2. The majority of the sales events will continuously between these two dates.
How do I find the best Black Friday deals?
With so much going on over the Black Friday weekend, it can be hard to keep on top of everything. One way to get a kind of bird’s eye view of the sales is to check out our curated highlights on both this page, and all our other Black Friday hubs:
- Black Friday Apple deals
- Black Friday headphone and earbud deals
- Black Friday micro SD deals
- Black Friday controller deals
- Black Friday Switch deals
Aside from that, here are a few pointers to keep in mind:
- During this period, deals can have a very short lifespan. If you see a phone you want at a discount price, buy it ASAP so you don’t miss out on the reduction. Some of them last as little as two hours.
- While it is sale season, it’s also scam season. But very cautious of deals that seem too good to be true. If you’re on a webpage, look closely at the URL to make sure it is genuinely the site it’s supposed to be. If it’s in an email, make sure the address that sent it to you is legit.
- Read the small print. Some websites will tell you that the latest iPhone is hundreds of dollars off or something like that, when the reality may be that the deal is only available to those trading in the previous model. A critical eye can help to save you some disappointment.
- On a similar note, some retailers (especially Amazon) will inflate a product’s “original price” to make the reduction look more significant than it is. To avoid falling for this, we recommend taking a look at the original price on a manufacturer’s website, as these are usually pretty reliable. What is claimed to be a 70% discount, could actually be a 30% discount.
Other than that, based on the Black Fridays of previous years, you can expect Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung to have some pretty good deals on phones. Sadly, it is unlikely that Apple will have its own Black Friday sale, but there may still be reduced Apple products on other sites.
If you want some guidance on which phones are worth buying, read our lists of the best gaming iPhone and the best Android phones. Whatever it is you’re looking for, we’ll be able to point you in the right direction.
