Samsung shoppers race to get free tablet as retailer hands out freebies with S25 Ultra
The newest deals in town give Samsung S25 Ultra shoppers which has already been reduced in price by a number of retailers
Samsung's S range phone is often considered one of the best and in the latest flurry of deals shoppers can now cut the price. The Galaxy S25 Ultra is the flagship device and one of the best phones Samsung offers thanks to its big, bright screen and speedy internals.
Samsung shoppers can now snap up some bundle deals. Mobiles.co.uk is offering a handful of freebies through its website, including a free Samsung Galaxy A9 tablet. Although this does depend on the model picked, as we explain below.
For a limited period, the site is also offering six months of free Google One AI Premium with S25 Ultra purchases, on top of all the other freebies shoppers can bag with the phone. This means Samsung fans can get their hands on a whole host of new freebies when they pick up the S25 Ultra.
Mobiles.co.uk is also running an enhanced trade-in for a limited time, meaning shoppers could pocket more cash by trading in their old device to save money on contracts or tariffs.
One of our top picks is a 200GB deal from Vodafone with a Galaxy A9 Tablet, and six months of Google AI Premium for £50 upfront and £53 monthly. In total, shoppers will pay £1347 with the data and the freebies included. When users compare it to the £1249 price tag on Samsung, it's a fairly good offer with the free tablet, data and other extras, reports the Express.
But if shoppers want to look elsewhere, there's also Carphone Warehouse, which has a range of other deals to explore. And for Apple fans, Giffgaff also has a reasonable monthly price on its iPhone 16 Pro with a £24 a month plan with a slightly more expensive £25 upfront cost if users want to shop around.
Tech critics at The Daily Express nearly awarded the S25 Ultra a high score when reviewing the model. Tech editor David Snelling said: "Samsung has done it again and produced another spectacularly good smartphone. The Galaxy S25 Ultra looks great, features a stunning 6.9-inch screen, a brilliant camera, long battery life, and that supremely quick Snapdragon 8 Elite processor.
"It also gets all of those Galaxy AI upgrades that can organise your life, retouch your photos, chat to you like a human and bring live football scores straight to the home screen."
Nonetheless, not every aspect of the device was met with adoration by David, who commented: "It's all clever stuff, but for some, it might just be a bit too smart. "There's so much Artificial Intelligence now included it can all feel slightly overwhelming, and only power users (and true AI geeks) are going to get close to scratching the surface of what this device can really do.
"That doesn't make this a bad phone. In fact, it's a very good phone. It just feels like all of Samsung's development is going into the software rather than boosting the hardware. Perhaps the AI boom for smartphones is because there's nothing else manufacturers can add or improve. You might ask yourself why you need a new phone at all - they say AI is the answer.
"If the brilliant S24 Ultra gets the S25's Galaxy AI upgrades - and the price continues to fall due to its age - that might also be a better bet."
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