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.
As we approach this exciting time of year, it's essential to plan your phone purchases wisely. The best gaming phones will often come with a hefty price tag, making Black Friday an opportune moment to snag them at a reduced cost. This will help cushion the financial impact. In addition to phones, we’ll also be exploring the best phone controllers and accessories to help you uncover all the bargains available.
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
Have 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 run 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 bird’s eye view of the sales is to check out our curated highlights on this page, as well as 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
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. Be 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, but 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.
- 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 checking 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.
Based on the Black Fridays of previous years, you can expect Amazon, Best Buy, and Samsung to have some fantastic 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, check out 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.
