The Pixel 10 Pro Fold and the Pixel Buds 2a, both of which were originally unveiled back on August 20, are now finally available for purchase. The timing means that Google missed Amazon’s big sales event, so the offers right now are pretty limited.
To entice you to upgrade to the new foldable, the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold comes with a £300 bonus for trade-ins and that’s it. The phone measures 10.8mm when closed and weighs 258g, which is fairly high for a 2025 foldable. The Tensor G5 also fails to impress. It has a 48MP main camera, 10.8MP 5x/112mm telephoto and 10.5MP ultra-wide cameras. The 5,015mAh battery supports relatively slow 30W wired and 15W wireless charging.
The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold7 has no discount at the moment – unless you count the £100 discount for Prime Student members – so it costs around the same as the Pixel. It’s slender, measuring 8.9mm when folded and weighing just 215g. That’s less than the S25 Ultra and iPhone 17 Pro Max! It packs a 200MP main, 10MP 3x/67mm telephoto camera and a 12MP ultra-wide. The Snapdragon 8 Elite is great, the 4,400mAh battery with 25W wired and 15W wireless charging isn’t.
The Google Pixel Buds 2a are £130, which is £90 less than the Pixel Buds Pro 2. These are less capable, of course, but they still offer active noise cancellation (ANC), plus a basic version of spatial audio. Battery life is up to 7 hours in one go and up to 20 hours with the case.
The Xiaomi 15T and 15T Pro are offered with decent discounts and a choice of one of three freebies: the Xiaomi Watch S4 41mm, the Xiaomi OpenWear Stereo Pro or a 32” Xiaomi smart TV.
Xiaomi Watch S4 41mm
The two phones have 6.83” OLED displays – 120Hz on the vanilla and 144Hz on the Pro. They are powered by the Dimensity 8400 Ultra and 9400+, respectively. The 5,500mAh batteries have different charging stats: 67W wired-only charging on the 15T and 90W/50W charging on the 15T Pro. The Pro has better camera hardware with a larger 50MP sensor in the main (1/1.31” vs. 1/1.55”) and a longer 50MP telephoto (5x/115mm vs. 2x/46mm).
Instead of the 15T, you can have the Poco F7 Ultra, which runs on the flagship Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset while costing less. The 50MP 2.5x/60mm telephoto camera and the 50MP 1/1.55” main won’t impress the 15T Pro, but the 5,300mAh battery with 120W wired and 50W wireless charging might.
Despite having a design only its CEO can love, the Nothing Phone (3) is quite capable and offers some unique features like that rear display with custom widgets. The Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 is a bit of a letdown at this price and the battery life isn’t great either (5,150mAh, 65W/15W charging). At least the triple 50MP camera includes a 3x telephoto module and is fairly capable.
Samsung finally retired the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite and launched the Galaxy Tab S10 Lite in its place. This 10.9” slate has a 90Hz LCD and an Exynos 1380 chipset. Storage is expandable via the microSD slot, but you are incentivized to get the 256GB model anyway – it has 8GB of RAM instead of just 6GB.
Xiaomi’s answer is the Redmi Pad 2 Pro, which is currently on pre-order. It’s larger with a better quality 12.1” IPS LCD with 120Hz refresh rate and Dolby Vision support. The tablet is powered by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 and a larger 12,000mAh battery (+4,000mAh compared to the Tab S10 Lite). Xiaomi wasn’t generous with RAM either – 6GB on the 128GB model and 8GB on the 256GB one. On the plus side, there’s a microSD slot here too.
Finally, the Samsung Galaxy A17 5G launched just last month. It pairs a 6.7” 90Hz 1080p+ OLED with an Exynos 1330 with expandable storage (no 3.5mm headphone jack, though). Its 5,000mAh battery with 25W wired charging is pretty standard for Samsung and the 50+5+2MP camera is pretty basic too. A key selling point for this phone is the promise of 6 OS upgrades – that’s a long support window for a sub-£200 phone. That said, the 4GB of RAM might shorten its useful lifetime.
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