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We’ve seen a lot of excellent smartphone deals in the Prime Day sales already but this one might be my favourite from the first day. The Google Pixel 9 Pro emerged as the best of Google’s latest batch of flagship phones, with better battery life and cameras than the Pixel 9 for a more tempting price than the Pixel 9 Pro XL and Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
Now, that tantalising price has been cut down even further, with the 512GB model discounted down to its lowest price on record. Previously averaging £1,087 in price, the 512GB Pixel 9 Pro is currently going for just £849 – that’s cheaper than the 128GB model right now.
To be clear, being the best of the Pixel 9 series is quite an accomplishment in itself, as all four handsets (and the later released Google Pixel 9a, for that matter) are very competent smartphones. Here’s what’s so special about the Pixel 9 Pro:
- The display is crisp, colourful and amazingly bright, hitting a ridiculous 1,894 nits in my testing. It’s impressively colour accurate too, with an average Delta E score of just 0.85 – anything under 1 is essentially perfect.
- The cameras are always a big perk of Pixel phones and it’s no different here. The main lens captures excellent shots with beautiful colours and strong dynamic range, the ultrawide is one of the best around and the telephoto delivers crisp 5x optical zoom shots.
- Photography editing features are the other side of that coin, with everything from smart erasers and face-swapping for group pictures to the impressively seamless Add Me feature. This allows photo-takers to be composited into group shots but you can also use it for silly things, like I did:
- Battery life was also very impressive in my testing. The Pixel 9 Pro tapped out from our looping video test after 27hrs 39mins, which is on the better end of things, especially for a compact phone.
- Software support is my final accolade to bestow here, with the Pixel 9 Pro set to be updated until 2031. Google gives all of its flagships the same seven years of support, including OS updates, security patches and first dibs on new Pixel features. If you want to keep your phone for a long time, few enable you to do so as well as Google does.
As for downsides, there are blissfully few. The new design feels more generic than the full-width camera bar used by the Pixel 8 series and the Google Tensor G4 chipset isn’t as fast as some others in this price range. It’s still an attractive enough phone, however, and performance is nice and nippy, so these are minor bugbears rather than dealbreakers.
I’ll be picking through all of the phone deals throughout Amazon’s four-day Prime Day sales event and bringing the best of them to you in my smartphone deals live blog, so bookmark that page if you want to see what other phone bargains can be had this year.
Otherwise, you can head over to our main Prime Day hub to see the best deals we’ve plucked out in all categories, with everything from TVs and headphones to air fryers and vacuum cleaners.
