The Samsung Galaxy S8 was the best phone of 2017. In fact it was so good, powerful and generally brilliant that it’s still one of the best smartphones of 2018, over a year after its release. Objectively it isn’t as good as the recently released Galaxy S9, but in truth the differences in performance and camera are so minor that you’re better off saving your money and getting last year’s version at a cheaper price.
That cheaper price is usually around the £500-£600 SIM-free, but thanks to Amazon’s Prime Day discounts, you can now get the still-fantastic Samsung Galaxy S8 in midnight black for £439. And Amazon will even throw in an official Samsung 64GB microSD card to double the handset’s internal storage to a generous 128GB.
Buy the Samsung Galaxy S8 and 64GB memory card from Amazon
So why is the Samsung Galaxy S8 so good? It pretty much has everything you could want in a phone. Fast performance? Check. A brilliant camera? Oh yes. Great screen? As good as it gets, yes. It’s even got wireless charging, waterproofing and room for a microSD card. It’s really hard to think of where it goes wrong. As our head of reviews Jonathan Bray said in his review, it’s “the best-looking phone on the market” – and given the design hasn’t changed with the S9, that remains as true today as it was in 2017.
Okay, so £439 may still not be impulse-purchase territory, but you’re unlikely to find a better handset in this price category. If you’d rather spend around half this, then the Moto G6 is going for £199, rather than its usual £240. And if you’re not in the phone market, there are plenty of other deals to consider...