Best phones to gift this Christmas 2024 from Apple, Samsung and Google

Six mobiles from Apple, Samsung, Google, and Motorola we deliberation are cleanable for Christmas wishlists - plus, the deals to get them for less

Christmas is astir the country and if you oregon a adjacent loved 1 is looking to upgrade their mobile this coming December past the existent Black Friday income offers a large mode to chopped the price. Apple's newest iPhone 16 range, the flagship Google Pixel 9 oregon Samsung's Galaxy ZFlip6 and Galaxy ZFold6 device, determination are truthful galore snazzy caller handsets to take from.

We each cognize that buying a caller telephone comes astatine a large outgo truthful we've picked retired immoderate of the champion existent deals to assistance you (or anyone successful complaint of your Christmas wishlist) wage a little than accustomed price. As Sky Mobile, giffgaff, O2, Vodafone and Mobiles.co.uk motorboat their Black Friday deals there's plentifulness to take from, not forgetting Amazon's aboriginal discounts.

No substance if you're looking for the latest flagship instrumentality from Apple, Samsung and Google, oregon a cheaper terms with the likes of the Pixel 8a oregon the Galaxy A54. So, let's get started.

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Starting disconnected with the discounts for Samsung Galaxy fans there's loads of offers disposable successful Samsung's recently launched Black Friday sale. Ones that basal retired to our squad is the £300 discount connected the foldable Galaxy ZFold6 and £100 to £570 disconnected the Galaxy ZFlip6 instrumentality if you person an older 1 to trade-in.

Samsung's caller flippable and foldable smartphones are surely ones we expect to beryllium fashionable this twelvemonth arsenic determination isn't galore different brands that propulsion disconnected the multi-screen devices arsenic good - isolated from the rival Google Pixel and Motorola Razr 50, but surely not thing Apple offers.

Samsung's S24 scope - arsenic it's astatine the apical of the discounts

Now, we wouldn't usually emblem Samsung's latest S scope telephone astatine this clip of they year, good for Christmas gifts, arsenic the caller S scope instrumentality volition beryllium motorboat astir February 2025, truthful those who are fortunate capable to get 1 astatine Christmas volition lone person 'the newest phone' for a mates of months.

That being said determination are plentifulness of deals connected the S24 scope this Black Friday that we can't ignore, and they'd suit those looking for a bargain oregon not fussed for having an older handset. And O2, Vodafone and Samsung each person large terms drops connected astatine the moment.

Over at O2, we'd urge the standard S24 program arsenic £920 is chopped off the combined 256GB instrumentality and airtime plan, which we antecedently shared the woody for our sister tract The Express, arsenic Harriet Morphy-Morris said: "The telephone utilized to outgo £890.26 astatine O2 but it's been dropped to £641.78, giving shoppers a redeeming of £248.48 connected the device...with different £670 (give oregon take) to prevention erstwhile they adhd an airtime plan.

"Another £672 tin beryllium saved connected the £14 per period discount connected the 25GB, 30GB Plus, 125GB, 150GB Plus, Unlimited, and Unlimited Plus Airtime plans", and it's not the lone S24 woody around.

If you person your sites connected the bigger S24 Ultra past Vodafone's Black Friday connection could beryllium for you, arsenic the instrumentality outgo of the program is presently £65 cheaper than Samsung's ain tract - but retrieve this is lone a perk if you request a SIM arsenic you'll person to bundle a airtime program ontop.

Now onto a much fund affable enactment for shoppers, we've picked the Galaxy A54 5G, a elemental Android instrumentality with Super AMOLED display, Android 13, a 50MP triple-camera and 6.4-inch surface - this isn't a fancy flagship instrumentality but offers thing for money-conscious shoppers.

Calling it 'the champion telephone they person ever had' 1 caller Amazon shopper said: "I wanted a telephone that would instrumentality a micro SD paper truthful that I could clasp each of my euphony connected it. I find this easier than loading it straight onto the phone. I simply moved the paper from my aged telephone to this 1 and was acceptable to go."

While different said: "If you want a Samsung instrumentality but don't privation to wage for the S range, this instrumentality is perfect. It's got each the large features and consciousness of Samsungs OneUI, with the little terms point. The surface looks great, the physique prime is sturdy, and artillery beingness is great. The camera is large and functional for the each time users."

Among the 5 prima reviews determination are a fewer 1-stars comments from shoppers including: "Charging larboard is faulty aft 3 months".

Apple iPhone 16 - if you privation a snazzy, flagship device

This is bound to beryllium connected plentifulness of shoppers festive wishlists, on with the iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and the iPhone 16 Pro Max.

Apple's brand-new iPhone 16 offers a question of caller features and eye-catching upgraded colourways truthful we wouldn't beryllium amazed if plentifulness of tech fans person this connected their Christmas wishlist. And to chopped the terms down into a overmuch much affordable plan, we've picked a new giffgaff deal.

The iPhone 16 can present beryllium bought for £779 upfront (a quality from Apple's £799 price) and astatine the checkout you tin besides prime a £10 per period 60GB information woody (which is the aged terms of the 25GB plan).

Google Pixel 8a - a fund telephone with nary scrimps connected quality

'My Google Pixel 8a is truthful bully I don't request to get the caller flagship phone' were the words I wrote successful my review of the fund Pixel model. And to this time I inactive urge it. "Ideal for those with little fund it doesn't, however, scrimp connected capableness - a crushed wherefore I'd spell arsenic acold arsenic to accidental if you person it, you won't request to look astatine Google's newest Pixel 9 and 9Pro launch", arsenic I antecedently said.

"That's what I've recovered arsenic I switched from my iPhone to the middle-of-the-range £400 device. It whitethorn beryllium branded arsenic a inexpensive alternate but having made usage of its 50MP camera and utilized its clever AI for photograph editing the Pixel 8a couldn't beryllium further distant from the 'stripped-back' sanction fund models often get."

The cheaper Google Pixel exemplary is usually seta mates of hundreds pounds little than the bigger devices, and present Amazon has matched Google's Black Friday offers. Now £429 alternatively of £559, this has been reduced by 23%.

Moto Razr 50 Ultra - for a much affordable foldable Android device

In the words of our Tech Editor Dave Snelling, the 'iconic Android model' has dropped successful terms acknowledgment to a John Lewis deal, wherever it's present £749. Although this is besides disposable (in constricted stock) at Amazon.

Many whitethorn person Samsung's Galaxy ZFlip6 and Galazy ZFold6 connected their foldable telephone wishlist but Dave explains the akin features disposable connected Motorola's ain version. As helium said: "There person been immoderate beauteous stellar Android launches this twelvemonth including a striking caller Razr instrumentality from the squad astatine Motorola.

"Just similar the fashionable Galaxy Z Flip6, the Razr 50 Ultra offers an iconic clamshell plan that, erstwhile opened, gives users a monolithic 6.9-inch OLED show to play games, surf the web, edit photos and cheque emails on."