Black Friday sales are in full swing – have you got anything yet? If you’re looking for a new phone, we’ve tracked down a number of offers for the US market. Here’s what Amazon has to offer and here are Samsung’s deals. Here we wanted to highlight four of the best offers we’ve seen so far.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra remains a unique productivity tool with its built-in S Pen and Dex support. You can use USB-C for wired video, but wireless screencasting works too, so the Ultra is very versatile.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra and Google Pixel 10 Pro XL
The Ultra is also the best Samsung camera phone right now. The 2026 model is coming in a few months, but rumors about it dampen expectations of a major upgrade. This generation, Samsung upgraded the ultra-wide camera to a 50MP sensor, up from 12MP on the S24 Ultra (here’s how the two phones compare). The phone already has a large 200MP 1/1.3″ sensor and two telephoto cameras: a 50MP 5x/111mm periscope and a 10MP 3x/67mm mid-range telephoto camera.
The Google Pixel 10 Pro XL benefits from Google’s experiences in UI design, messaging, AI and more. However, its hardware suffers from an underperforming Tensor G5 chipset – it’s nowhere near the performance of the Galaxy’s Snapdragon 8 Elite. And Google is working with Samsung on building Android 16’s native desktop experience.
Pixel cameras had their all-around brilliance – they captured miracles with aging hardware. Now the Pixel 10 Pro XL has competitive hardware with a 50MP 1/1.31″ main, 48MP 5x/113mm periscope and 48MP ultra-wide. Photos still have that “Pixel feel”, although they’ve fallen behind the market leaders in terms of quality. Fortunately, Google and Samsung aren’t available at their best.
There are other things to consider — the Pixel 10 Pro XL had a brighter screen when we tested it (reaching 2,340 nits compared to 1,417 nits for the S25 Ultra), but the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra had better battery life (14:49h vs. 12:29h active usage score). The Samsung also scored 100% faster (0:59h vs 1:22h).
The two phones mentioned above have the best cameras that their parent companies have to offer in 2025. However, if you want to get some work done, the large screens on their foldables promise a whole new world of possibilities.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 and Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 impresses with its dimensions – it measures 158.4 x 72.8 x 8.9 mm and weighs 215 grams. The Pixel 10 Pro XL is 162.8 x 76.6 x 8.5mm and 232g. Yes, the non-folding Pro XL is slightly larger and heavier than the folding Samsung! The Pixel 10 Pro Fold measures 155.2 x 76.3 x 10.8 mm and weighs 258 grams.
Here again, performance and multitasking are firmly in Samsung’s favor – the Snapdragon 8 Elite dwarfs the Tensor G5 and Dex is more robust than Android 16 desktop mode.
Neither phone can match its rugged counterpart’s camera hardware. The Samsung has a 200MP 1/1.3″ main like the S25 Ultra and the same mid-range telecamera, 10MP 3x/67mm, but no periscope and just a 12MP sensor on the ultra-wide. The Pixel has a smaller 48MP 1/2.0″ sensor in the main and similarly unfocused 10.5MP. Its upper hand is the long telephoto lens on its 10.8mp 5x/112mm camera.
The Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold has a price advantage over the Galaxy Z Fold 7, despite being $100 less on a phone that doesn’t cost more than $1,000. Both phones promise 7 years of OS upgrades. Whether their chipset and RAM capabilities (only 12GB on the Galaxy vs 16GB on the Pixel) is enough in the 2030s.
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