One of my favorite Black Friday deals is making a quick comeback before Christmas. The sale includes one of the best-rated phones of the year.
For a limited time, Mint Mobile is selling the Google Pixel 9 for just $299. Plus, Mint offers unlimited data for a year for just $15 a month, making this easy best christmas offers all around.
The Google Pixel9 is a big step forward for Google’s phones, taking advantage of the best parts of the phone Pixel8 and improve them. Most striking of all is how much better the battery life is, something Google has always been pretty bad at, and makes this year’s phone competitive with its biggest rivals – even if it doesn’t last as long as some of them.
Other upgrades include the new, brighter version of the Actua display, an improved 48 MP ultra-wide camera lens, 12 GB of RAM instead of 8 GB, and the Tensor G4 chipset. While not a performance powerhouse, Tensor’s real strengths lie in its AI processing and improving camera quality – two things the Pixel 9 excels at. To the point where John Velasco, editor of Tom’s Guide Phones, starts to feel like the Pixel 9 is a better option than both Pro models.
The Pixel 9 also benefits from a longer lifespan, thanks to Google offering 7 years of software support. That means you’re guaranteed new Android and security updates until the summer of 2031 – after which Google is preparing to release the Pixel 16. And now Android 15 has been released and Android 16 is on the way, you can take advantage of the best new software Google has to offer – and before anyone uses a non-Pixel phone.