{"id":66716,"date":"2025-10-09T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66716\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T01:03:09","slug":"prime-day-phone-deals-under-500-google-samsung-motorola-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/66716\/","title":{"rendered":"Prime Day phone deals under $500 \u2014 Google, Samsung, Motorola and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"7d052172-d101-4fc9-9104-9d99b943a182\">Amazon&#8217;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/live\/news\/best-prime-big-deal-days-october-2025\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/live\/news\/best-prime-big-deal-days-october-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Day Deals<\/a> have reduced the price of a bunch of incredible phones, but a lot of them remain expensive even with the discount. But there are plenty of offers available on cheaper models \u2014 all of which are available for under $500.<\/p>\n<p>Take the Google Pixel 9a, our current choice for the best cheap phone. Normally, that would cost you at least $499, but thanks to Prime Day, you can pick up the Pixel 9a for as little as $349. Likewise, the Galaxy S25 FE has dropped to $499, which is $150 off the usual $649 price tag.<\/p>\n<p>Or if you&#8217;re looking for something even cheaper, there are some options available to you. The Samsung Galaxy A36 has dropped from $399 to $299 for Prime Day, while the Samsung Galaxy A16 can be bought for as little as $164 \u2014 down from $199. There&#8217;s also the Moto G Stylus (2024), which is 50% off and will cost just 4199. That&#8217;s a little older than you may want, but you do get a bunch of features you&#8217;d normally only see on premium phones.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-quick-links\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>Quick Links<a id=\"elk-best-prime-day-phone-deals-under-500\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>Best Prime Day phone deals under $500<a id=\"elk-adfeb581-3a49-4296-9e8b-e8747ce1f6c1\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-ee468e72-c865-40e5-80c3-a1a1b0ef7f9e\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-659612de-31b5-4efd-a983-d75b6a655fca\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-e3172917-62e9-451d-8cb0-cd60d2b03b19\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-6261d264-62d3-4220-9097-a103df7def16\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-8040fec9-ae61-469e-8201-3df73f0f4d78\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-0d795ffe-4634-4db0-b13b-464aab2c953e\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-1ec43a0a-8127-4f08-86c0-c58dffd0f444\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><a id=\"elk-e53bfe2d-dc8e-4f9d-a354-a5d97b4ded9d\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"9162f879-230e-4a92-b541-c5aafa1363de\">For more great discounts, be sure to check out our <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/live\/news\/best-prime-big-deal-days-october-2025\" target=\"_blank\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.tomsguide.com\/live\/news\/best-prime-big-deal-days-october-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon Prime Day deals live blog<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon&#8217;s Prime Day Deals have reduced the price of a bunch of incredible phones, but a lot of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-66716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}