Weekly Deals: iPhone Air and iPhone 17 prices cut, Galaxy S26 and Pixel 10/10 Pro also on sale

The Apple iPhone Air wasn’t the first super-slim phone, but it was the phone that started the craze, anyway – Apple has influence on the market. Currently, the phone is available at a discount of up to €480.

That gets you a 6.5″ LTPO display (120Hz) and the powerful Apple A19 Pro chipset. The 3,149mAh battery is tiny, but it still achieved a decent 12:44h active usage score – and there’s a variety of MagSafe products that can help extend runtime. However, the single 48MP (1/1.56″) camera can’t be cured.

The Apple iPhone 17 is a smaller phone with a 6.3″ LTPO display (120Hz). It has the regular A19 chipset (which has the same CPU/GPU configuration but less cache than the Pro) and adds a 48MP ultra-wide camera (120°) next to the 48MP main one. Despite being “smaller” (it’s shorter and narrower but thicker and heavier than the Air), the 17 has a larger 3,692mAh battery that’s more Lasts time (14:59h active usage score).

Competing with the iPhone 17 is the Samsung Galaxy S26. It also has a 6.3″ LTPO display and (in Europe) it uses the Exynos 2600 chipset. The large 4,300mAh battery gives it only minimal endurance (15:20h). The S26 has a 50MP main camera (1/1.56″ sensor), a dedicated 10MP 3x/67mm telephoto, and a 12MP ultra-wide.

Also in the 6.3″ class is the Google Pixel 10. It’s the vanilla model, so it’s a lot cheaper – meaning there’s no LTPO panel for it. Plus, Google’s Tensor G5 chip is no match for Apple silicon. Like the Galaxy, the Pixel has a dedicated telephoto camera – a 10.8MP sensor paired with a longer 5x/112mm lens – to go with the 48MP main (with a shorter one). 1/2.0” sensor) and 13MP ultra-wide. The 4,970mAh battery is by far the largest of the three, but you wouldn’t be able to tell with the disappointing 12:08h active usage score.

The Pixel 10 is the budget option, but the iPhone 17 is also the budget option — it’s just that Google and Apple have different ideas about what “budget” means. Pixel 10 Pro is close to the iPhone in terms of current price. It offers key upgrades like an LTPO panel for the 6.3” display and a larger 1/1.31” 50MP sensor for the main camera. The telephoto module is even more capable with a 48MP sensor behind the 5x/113mm periscope. The ultra-wide and selfie cameras also got upgraded sensors to 48MP and 42MP respectively. However, the slow chipset and mediocre battery life remain issues even with the Pro models.

Samsung gave up the super-slim race after just one attempt, so there’s no Edge this year – but there is a Galaxy S26+. With a 4,900mAh battery and better efficiency, this phone got a very good score of 16:25h. The screen is a larger 6.7” LTPO panel, but the Exynos 2600 and 50+10+12MP camera setup is the same as the vanilla S26.

Samsung Galaxy S26+

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With a difference of €100 between the 256GB models and less than €200 between the 512GB models, you should consider the Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra over the S26+ – In our head-to-head comparison, we highlighted a few reasons for choosing the S26+, but the list of pros for the S26 Ultra was much longer.

Unlike Samsung, Google keeps its small and large flagships on the same level. That means the Pixel 10 Pro XL is a bigger Pro with a 6.8″ display and a 5,200mAh battery (12:29h active usage score). Here are our thoughts on how the Pixel 10 Pro XL compares to the S26 Ultra.

Motorola launched the Razr 70 series earlier this week, but the new phones aren’t available on Amazon yet. And even if they were, the new Ultra costs €1,400. Meanwhile, its predecessor, the Motorola Razr 60 Ultra, remains just €650 for the base 12/256GB model.

The 70 Ultra uses an overclocked version of the same Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. The new model brings slight improvements in screen (5,000 nits vs. 4,500 nits) and battery (5,000mAh vs. 4,700mAh), but still lacks a telephoto lens and a USB 3 port, making it hard to justify the difference in price.