If you’re a hardcore Samsung fan looking to buy a new high-end handset from your favorite brand right now, get ready to make one of the toughest choices you’ve ever had to make… in a good way.
That’s because pretty much all of the best Galaxy phones out there are currently on sale at substantial discounts in unlocked variants with no device trade-in or upfront carrier activation required and no gift card or anything like that involved. We’re talking first and foremost about the entire state-of-the-art S24 family, but also last year’s “vanilla” Galaxy S23, which can be this year’s top budget 5G option for a lot of Android power users.
Originally available for $799.99 and up, the 6.1-inch S23 was unsurprisingly and rather quietly brought down to a base price of $699.99 after its successor saw daylight in January 2024, and now you can save a cool 100 bucks on top of that without jumping through any hoops whatsoever.
Yes, the entry-level 128GB storage configuration of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2-powered Galaxy S23 is marked down at the time of this writing on Amazon by $100 from its recently revised list price of $699.99, which might make you wonder what even is the point of the S23 FE now.
That’s right, the two Galaxy S23-branded devices are available at the exact same price today, and the Fan Edition is of course inferior in a number of important ways, from processing power to overall camera capabilities.
At its newly reduced price, the “standard” S23 also manages to undercut Google’s non-Pro Pixel 8 while matching the extreme affordability of the OnePlus 12R. Last but certainly not least, the discounted Galaxy S23 remains a more than decent budget-friendly alternative for the newer and only slightly better Galaxy S24, which is itself on sale at a special price right now.
