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Amazon is having a spring shopping event around the world and we picked out the best smartphone offers for the UK.
The Poco F7 series launched just in time for the Spring Deal Days and they come with a £100 discount instead of the usual £50 early bird discount.
The Poco F7 Ultra starts at £550 and brings flagship performance with a Snapdragon 8 Elite and a 5,300mAh battery with 120W wired and 50W wireless charging. It is rated IP68 and it has a 6.67” display with Poco Shield Glass – it’s a good quality 120Hz panel with 1440p+ resolution, 12-bit colors with Dolby Vision and 3,200 nits peak brightness.
Poco even put effort into the camera system with a 50MP main (1/1.55”, OIS), 50MP 2.5x (60mm) telephoto (capable of tele-macro shots) and a 32MP ultra-wide, plus a 32MP selfie camera.
The Poco F7 Pro is £150 cheaper for the same storage and gets the same screen (different glass, GG 7i, but the panel is the same). It has last year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, which is still plenty fast, especially at this price point. You do lose the telephoto camera and the 32MP ultra-wide (there’s an 8MP module instead), but the battery is bigger at 6,000mAh (charging is 90W wired-only).
The F7 Pro may have a mid-range price, but the aluminum frame, IP68 rating and the flagship chipset make for an elevated experience.
The Google Pixel 9 sits between the pricier 9 Pro and the upcoming 9a. It comes with a nice discount and a free silicone case, so you’ve got the basics covered. While it lacks a telephoto camera, the Pixel 9 does have a large 1/1.31” 50MP sensor in its main plus a high-resolution 48MP ultra wide.
Speaking of cameras, the Honor Magic7 Pro has one of the better camera systems in the high end with a 50MP main (f/1.4-2.0, 1/1.3”), 50MP ultra-wide and a 200MP 3x (72mm) periscope. The 50MP selfie camera with a 3D ToF sensor makes for some awesome selfies too. The phone is powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite and a 5,270mAh battery with 100W wired and 80W wireless charging. The display is a 6.8” LTPO panel (120Hz, 10-bit) with 1280p+ resolution.
The OnePlus 13 is around the same price, also with a Snapdragon 8 Elite and a 6.82” LTPO display (120Hz, 10-bit) with 1440p+ resolution. The 50MP main has a fixed f/1.6 aperture and there is a 50MP ultra-wide too. The telephoto camera is a more traditional 50MP 3x (73mm) module. Inside is a 6,000mAh battery with 100W wired and 50W wireless charging. Both the Honor and the OnePlus are rated IP69, but the Honor promises more OS updates – 5 versus 4.
The OnePlus Nord CE4 Lite is a whopping 40% off. The phone is a competent entry-level device with a 6.67” 120Hz OLED display (1080p+), Snapdragon 695 chipset (with expandable storage) and a 50MP camera. It has an IP54 rating and a 5,110mAh battery with fast 80W wired charging.
The Redmi Note 13 Pro is 41% off, but there’s no hiding that this is a late 2023 model. Still, it will be updated to Android 15 and 16, so there is still life left in it, even if the Snapdragon 7s Gen 2 isn’t particularly fast – it’s better than the 695, for what that’s worth.
There’s an impressive 200MP main camera with OIS and good 2x in-sensor zoom (and not-so-good 4x). The 6.67” 120Hz OLED display is also a standout (12-bit, Dolby Vision, 1220p+, GG Victus) and the 5,100mAh battery with 67W charging is comparable to the Nord, as is the IP54 rating.
The Redmi Note 13 4G is highly discounted too, but hold off on that for a moment.
The Redmi Note 14 Pro came out this January and is quite similar to the 13 Pro, except that it launched with Android 14 instead of 13 (and is slated for 3 OS updates). It is powered by the Dimensity 7300 Ultra instead of a Snapdragon chip. It still has a 200MP main and a 6.67” 12-bit display. Charging got knocked down to 45W, but the battery capacity is the same at 5,110mAh. However, the dust and water resistance got a major upgrade to IP68 and the glass to GG Victus 2. All that is worth the extra £40, we think.
Similarly, the Redmi Note 14 4G is £30 more than the 13 4G, but you get a newer Android version out of the box and longer software support with it. The phone has the same 108MP main camera but a larger 5,500mAh battery (up from 5,000mAh, both with 33W charging). The Snapdragon 685 was swapped out for a Helio G99 Ultra, which is a minor upgrade. Again, the small premium over the old model is worth it.
Apple is readying a new generation of iPhones for September, but you can have the older iPhone 15 Pro Max for £900. You’ll still get Apple Intelligence but not any camera upgrades that may be coming. Still, iPhones are pricey and last a long while, so the older model may be a good pick.
The Xiaomi 14T Pro is £50 more than the Poco F7 Pro and serves as an interesting alternative. It has the Dimensity 9300+ from the same vintage as the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3. The display has a lower resolution, 1220p+ vs. 1440p+, but is an otherwise similar 6.67” 12-bit OLED panel, this time with 144Hz refresh rate.
The 14T Pro has the better camera system that was lacking on the F7 Pro – a 50MP main (1/1.31” vs. 1/1.55”), 50MP 2.6x (60mm) telephoto (vs. none) and a 12MP ultra-wide (vs. 8MP). The battery is smaller at 5,000mAh (vs. 6,000mAh), but you get both 120W wired and 50W wireless charging (vs. 90W wired-only).
The Poco X7 Pro arrived earlier this year. It’s a mid-range model comparable to the Redmi Notes with a 6.67” 12-bit display with Dolby Vision (1220p+, 120Hz, GG 7i). It runs on a Dimensity 8400 Ultra chipset and a large 6,000mAh battery with 90W charging. The phone is rated IP69 too, topping even the Redmi Note 14 Pro. However, there’s no 200MP camera to be had here, just a fairly basic 50+8MP setup.
The Poco X7 is a good deal cheaper than its Pro sibling, but it drops down to a Dimensity 7300 Ultra with slower UFS 2.2 storage (vs. UFS 4.0 on the Pro). The battery also gets a downgrade to 5,110mAh capacity and 45W charging. The camera and the screen are the same, though, except that the screen has the pricier GG Victus 2 glass instead of 7i.
The CMF Phone 1 is a bit cheaper but with only half the storage – it does have a microSD slot, though. And the Dimensity 7300 non-Ultra chipset is essentially the same. The CMF phone has only basic dust and water resistance, but the back covers are easily changeable to customize the look – note that the 5,000mAh battery with 33W charging is non-replaceable. Also, the 50MP camera on the back lacks OIS and there’s no ultra-wide like on the X7 (which has an 8MP unit).
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