The Pixel 10, our favorite Android phone, is nearly 50 percent off right now

If you’re successful the marketplace for a caller Android smartphone — aliases connected the hunt for a coagulated last-minute gift — Google’s Pixel 10 is simply a awesome spot to look. We see it the best Android phone you tin buy, and correct now, you tin drawback it astatine Amazon starting astatine $449 ($350 off) erstwhile you usage promo codification PIXEL10, which drops Google’s entry-level flagship to its lowest value to date. If you for illustration a amended cameras aliases a bigger screen, Amazon is besides offering the Pixel 10 Pro and the Pixel 10 Pro XL for $649 ($350 off) and $799 ($400 off), respectively, utilizing the aforesaid code.

In her review, Verge elder reviewer Allison Johnson called the Pixel 10 a great, basal Android telephone that offers immoderate notable upgrades complete its predecessor. It features a 6.3-inch OLED surface and a 120Hz refresh rate, on pinch a highest brightness of 3,000 nits, making it easy to spot successful nonstop sunlight. It besides includes an array of adjuvant AI-powered devices and a dedicated telephoto camera — a first for a non-Pro Pixel telephone — which is awesome for capturing image photos.

One of the Pixel 10’s much notable upgrades, though, is the summation of Qi2 wireless charging pinch built-in magnets — arguably the coolest part of the instrumentality — which intends you don’t request a abstracted lawsuit for easy and precise charging alignment. The instrumentality besides includes Google’s Tensor G5 chip, which is the aforesaid 1 recovered successful the pricier Pro models; however, the Pixel 10 has somewhat little RAM (12GB versus 16GB). Still, you shouldn’t announcement immoderate awesome differences successful mundane performance, unless you’re really pushing it pinch dense multitasking and superior mobile gaming.

Our main gripe pinch the Pixel 10 is that its main and ultrawide cameras aren’t rather arsenic bully arsenic those connected the Pro. That said, the modular Pixel produces pictures that are perfectly fine, while the telephoto camera makes for a bully addition. At its normal $799 price, we deliberation the Pixel 10 is already a awesome value. At $449, it’s a dang bully deal.