Although the starting Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra price has increased, Samsung’s new Black Friday deal offers double the storage (512GB) for $914.99.Photographer: Yuki Iawmura/Bloomberg
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Samsung’s cheapest Black Friday Galaxy S25 Ultra price remains the sub-$850 offer the Korean company launched last week. It didn’t last long, because Samsung has now raised its Galaxy S25 Ultra price days before Black Friday, but it has added some new promotions to offset that increase.
While you will pay more to pick up the Galaxy S25 Ultra from Samsung.com in today’s updated Black Friday offer, you will also get more storage for your money, alongside improved trade-in prices. If you’re squarely interested in the cheapest price rather than more storage, subscribe to my newsletter for instant deal updates so you don’t miss out.
Don’t forget to read about Samsung’s “Price Promise” if you plan to buy a Galaxy phone this Black Friday.
Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra Price Rises for Black Friday Deals
The $849 Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra 256GB deal is gone. It may come back again before Christmas, but for now, Samsung has altered its deals and raised the flagship’s price to $914 for the 512GB storage option.
The new Galaxy S25 Ultra price is part of a double storage deal, worth $240, alongside a further $385 off if no phone is traded in. That brings the price down to $914.99 from $1,419.99.
If you’re happy to stretch, the 1TB storage option is only $395 more (down to $1,034.99 from $1,659.99). While the low base price has disappeared, this is the cheapest I have seen the Galaxy S25 Ultra 1TB model, which also makes it cheaper than the regular price of the 256GB model.
Enhanced Galaxy S25 Ultra Trade-in Prices For Black Friday
Here’s the good news: Samsung’s trade-in prices have also risen significantly. For the last couple of weeks, they were oddly low, rivaling Amazon’s poor used-phone valuations.
Perhaps that was part of a Black Friday strategy to make the deal look better. Either way, prices (for select phones) are back up to some of their best. For example, Samsung would only pay $170 for the Galaxy S22 Ultra last week. That has now gone up to $480, just $20 less than what Samsung paid for it in June.
The Galaxy S23 Ultra is now valued at $530, which is $50 less than June’s price. Other decent trade-in prices include $450 for the Galaxy S23 Plus and $480 for the Galaxy Z Fold 4.
Free Software Bundles With The Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra
Samsung is squarely focused on price drops for this Black Friday. The company has slashed prices for its Galaxy Z Fold 7, Galaxy S25 Edge, and Galaxy S25 Ultra to the lowest I have seen for each model since they launched. This comes at the expense of free hardware, which in the past has meant free laptops, Galaxy Watches, Galaxy Buds, and free tablets.
As it stands, Samsung has bundled the below software freebies with the Galaxy S25 Ultra:
- Two months of Adobe Lightroom
- Six months of Google AI Pro
- 30-day free trial for Samsung Health powered by iFit
- 30-day free trial to ArcSite
- Six months of SiriusXM
- 30 days free of LumaFusion
The headline Galaxy S25 Ultra freebie here is the six months of Google AI Pro, with the Adobe Lightroom and SiriusXM offers not far behind. But the lack of free hardware, or even longer software freebies such as a year of Disney Plus (a 2023 Samsung freebie), makes the offering fairly tame.
