Best early Black Friday smartphone deals: Save hundreds on flagship devices - ZDNet

• Current Price: $899
• Original Price: $1199

In the moving for champion smartphone of the year, the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra, with its gorgeous 6.8-inch OLED display, up to 8K video recording, S Pen support, and a generous 5,000mAh battery, has proven to beryllium the Korean giant's astir implicit handset yet. This aboriginal Black Friday, Amazon and Best Buy person the flagship discounted by $300, putting the Galaxy close beside Google's just-released Pixel 7 Pro astatine $899. 

I situation you to find a much versatile smartphone for that price.

• Current price: $849
• Original price: $999

I reviewed the iPhone 14 Pro alongside ZDNET workfellow Jason Hiner backmost successful September, and portion Apple's latest handset dazzled with improved camera features and its astir ambitious show diagnostic yet: Dynamic Island, it didn't consciousness similar a revelation compared to the iPhone 13 Pro from the twelvemonth before. That said, if you were hoping to bargain an iPhone for little going into Black Friday, this $150 discount connected the fantabulous iPhone 13 Pro is surely worthy the look. 

For transparency, the telephone is certified "Renewed Premium" by Amazon, meaning it has been afloat inspected and volition look arsenic bully arsenic new. Barring that, you tin expect the aforesaid iOS 16 acquisition that 1 would get connected the more-expensive iPhone 14 Pro and a much accepted notched display.

• Current price: $649
• Original price: $799

The OnePlus 10 Pro is 1 of the amended smartphones that fell nether everyone's radar this year, chiefly due to the fact that it was announced backmost successful January astatine CES. As OnePlus's flagship smartphone, the handset carries the much-expected duet of ultra-smooth show show and adjacent faster charging. No, seriously, the telephone comes with a 65W charging ceramic that tin powerfulness it from 0% to 100% wrong fractional an hour.

All things considered, you technically prevention $250 dollars with this woody due to the fact that the OnePlus 10 Pro retailed astatine $899 erstwhile it was archetypal released earlier this year. 

• Current Price: $299
• Original Price: $449

Google's Pixel A bid of smartphones is notorious for offering the company's computational photography prowess successful a bundle that costs nary much than $500. Here's an adjacent sweeter deal: the latest Pixel 6a for conscionable $299. That's the lowest terms I've seen connected the Tensor-powered handset, and erstwhile you see the 5 to six years of bundle and information enactment that it's connected way to receive, determination truly is nary amended no-contract smartphone woody happening close present than this. 

The Pixel 6a is besides 1 of the astir compact handsets connected the marketplace contiguous astatine 6.1 inches. I volition accidental that the little outgo comes astatine the disbursal of a slower 60Hz refresh complaint display, but unless you're a gamer oregon walk each time swiping done a societal feed, it shouldn't impact your acquisition significantly. 

• Current price: $349
• Original price: $449

It's casual to messiness up a "cheap" 5G phone, but Samsung got astir everything close with the Galaxy A53 5G. So overmuch truthful that it presently sits astatine the apical of ZDNET's best inexpensive 5G phones rankings. The reasoning is really beauteous simple. The Galaxy A53 5G has a ample 6.5-inch Super AMOLED show that tin ramp up to 120Hz, which, that diagnostic alone, puts its closest competitors, Apple's iPhone SE (2nd Gen) and Google's Pixel 6a, to shame. Then there's a beefy 5,000mAh artillery powering the unit, and a quad-camera setup astatine the rear for flexibility erstwhile shooting photos and videos. 

The full shebang is presently connected merchantability for conscionable $349, $100 disconnected its emblematic price. 

When it comes to uncovering the champion deal, portion of the equation is looking for smartphones that users volition really bask using. By investigating astir of the handsets that deed the unfastened marketplace each twelvemonth long, ZDNET's squad of taxable experts tin connection the champion proposal connected what to bargain and what to avoid. 

The 2nd portion of the equation is determining whether oregon not a woody is existent oregon not. In immoderate cases, retailers volition people down a merchandise knowing afloat good that it has been discounted for weeks and months before. In different cases, similar the ones mentioned above, you're redeeming wealth connected the products similar ne'er before.