Reminder: Prime Day is next week. You will need an active Prime subscription to get the lower prices, though the free trial usually works – unless you have already used it recently. This week, you don’t need Prime to get these deals.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 FE stayed at MSRP for a few weeks after the launch of the Galaxy A57. Now the FE model is back where it should be – at just under $600 for the 8/256GB model. We have a detailed Galaxy S25 FE vs. A57 comparison article to help you choose between these two (though given that they cost the same, the choice is easy enough).
OnePlus doesn’t do a lot of discounts – its phones are already aggressively priced. But now both the OnePlus 15 and the 15R are $50 off. The OnePlus 15R has a 6.83” 165Hz OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset, a large 7,400mAh battery (with 80W wired-only charging) and a fairly basic 50+8MP camera.
The OnePlus 15 is more capable – its 6.78” 165Hz display is an LTPO panel and it uses the higher-tier Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 chip. Its 7,300mAh battery supports both 80W wired and 50W wireless charging. Best of all, it has a 50MP 1/1.56” main camera, 50MP 3.5x/80mm periscope and a 50MP ultra-wide (116°).
Carl Pei says he wants to steal “one bored iPhone user at a time”. Well, are you bored with your iPhone? If you answered “yes”, check out the Nothing Phone (4a) Pro. It has a distinctive design, a 6.83” 144Hz OLED display and a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4. Its battery has 5,080mAh capacity and 50W wired-only charging. The camera setup is interesting – a 50MP 1/1.56” main, 50MP 3.5x/80mm periscope and an 8MP ultra-wide. This gives the Galaxy S25 FE a run for its money. And the iPhone 17 doesn’t even have a telephoto camera.
There’s also the Nothing Phone (3). This one has a higher resolution dot matrix display – did we forget to mention the dot matrix display on the back of the (4a) Pro? – and a smaller 6.67” 120Hz OLED display on the front. The battery is a Si/C cell with a disappointingly small 5,150mAh capacity (Si/C batteries are usually 6,000+ mAh). At least you get 15W wireless charging to go with the 65W wired charging. And a slightly more powerful Snapdragon 8s Gen 4 chipset.
The cameras have upgrades too, with a larger 1/1.3” 50MP sensor in the main, a 50MP 3x periscope and a 50MP ultra-wide. Keep in mind that the base iPhone 17 is $800 new and even the older iPhone 16 is $700.
It has been a while since we’ve looked at tablets, so let’s have a peek at how that market is going. The vanilla Apple iPad from 2025 is a good baseline – it has an 11” IPS LCD (60Hz) and a decently powerful Apple A16 chipset.
The Apple iPad Air 11 from earlier this year is over 50% more expensive and yet its 11” IPS LCD still runs at 60Hz. You do get the Apple M4 chipset, which is essentially a laptop/mini PC class processor. Also, the USB-C port has video out via DisplayPort and the Stage Manager functionality to go with it (which will be improved in the upcoming iPadOS 27). There’s also a 13” model if you want a larger screen and battery.
The Apple iPad Pro 11 is the one to go for if you want a better display – this one has a 120Hz 11” OLED panel, a bright tandem OLED at that (it does 1,000 nits in high brightness mode and 1,600 nits peak). The Apple M5 is even faster, it’s the chip inside the current MacBook Air, where it is also passively cooled. And you can get a Magic Keyboard to turn the iPad Pro into a smaller laptop. Again, there is a larger 13” version available if you want it.
Flipping over to Samsung, the Galaxy Tab S10 FE and Tab S10 FE+ are both $600 for 12/256GB models. They have 10.9” and 13.1” IPS LCDs, respectively (both 90Hz), so it’s up to you whether you want the larger or the smaller tablet. They have different battery capacities too, of course, 8,000mAh and 10,090mAh.
However, both use the same chipset, the Exynos 1580, and have microSD slots. DeX is supported on the tablets’ screen, but the USB-C 2.0 port lacks video out functionality. Both slates come with an S Pen stylus included as standard, the CaseBook Cover Keyboard is optional.
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