Best Galaxy S23 Ultra deals: Get the phone for £500 less from Samsung

Looking for the best Galaxy S23 Ultra deals? You’re in luck, there are some brilliant discounts and deals available today.

If you have been looking for a Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra, Samsung is offering a staggering £500 off your phone when you trade in your old smartphone which is a staggering deal.

It means you could get your Samsung smartphone for less than £800 thanks to the trade-in deal. Samsung is also offering another brilliant deal by offering 12 months of Disney+ for completely free when you buy the device. 

If you missed the initial announcement, the Galaxy S23 Ultra is the all-new flagship phone from Samsung. As the name suggests, it’s a follow-up to the Galaxy S22 Ultra from last year. Like its predecessor, the Galaxy S23 Ultra packs a palm-stretching screen, an S Pen stylus to make handwritten notes and sign PDFs, and a mind-boggling triple-camera system for ultra-crisp photos.

As you might imagine, none of that comes cheap …so it’s vital to secure the best Galaxy S23 Ultra deals possible, so you never pay full price for this top-tier handset. Read our in-depth Galaxy S23 Ultra review to see whether it’s worth the cost.

As well as the online Samsung Store, Galaxy S23 Ultra can be found in a number of popular online and high-street shops, including Amazon UK, Very, John Lewis, and Currys. You can purchase the 2023 flagship phone from any of these stores and still be able to claim the free 6-month subscription to Disney Plus from Samsung by heading to its website.

The biggest mobile networks – including EE, O2, Vodafone, Sky Mobile – also stock the Galaxy S23 Ultra. These networks can offer their own deals and incentives too, with free Netflix and Amazon Prime subscriptions available to new Galaxy S23 Ultra owners! On top of these bespoke deals, you’ll also be able to claim the Disney Plus from the Samsung website.

Below, you’ll find all of the details on the Galaxy S23 Ultra, including the latest UK SIM-free pricing and deals. Scroll down for our complete guide to everything you need to know about the Samsung S23 Ultra, or use the links to jump to the relevant section.

The Galaxy S23 Ultra was revealed alongside the Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus. Combined, these three handsets form the latest Galaxy S range for 2023. We’ve also rounded up the best Galaxy S23 deals separately, if you want something a little more affordable (with fewer features) than the all-singing, all-dancing Galaxy S23 Ultra.

The Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra packs a mammoth 6.8-inch OLED touchscreen with a 120Hz refresh-rate and 1440p resolution. That’s bigger than the Galaxy S23 (6.1-in) and Galaxy S23 Plus (6.6-in) which both top out at 1080p maximum resolution.

You’ll be able to draw, annotate, and make handwritten notes on that expansive screen using the latest generation of S Pen stylus. Hovering the S Pen over the screen unlocks new extra functionality, like the right-click on a mouse. The S Pen charges wirelessly whenever it’s popped back inside its dedicated holder on the phone.

Inside the Galaxy S23 Ultra, you’ll find the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy, a tweaked version of the latest system-on-a-chip from Qualcomm specifically for the new Galaxy S range. The US chip manufacturer says this is “the fastest Snapdragon ever,” so expect lightning-fast loading times and game performance.

However, given that Qualcomm is supplying its Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 to dozens of other flagship phones throughout 2023, don’t expect that much extra oomph from this Galaxy-specific version as the US firm is presumably saving the biggest gains for the inevitable Snapdragon 8 Gen 3.

What makes the decision to plump for the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy so extraordinary is that it ends a decade-long debate amongst Samsung fans. In previous years, Samsung relied on its own in-house processors, dubbed Exynos, to power Galaxy S devices in more than 100 countries, including the UK, mainland Europe, India, and North American, Australian and South Korean customers enjoyed Qualcomm chipsets.

This wouldn’t have been an issue, except tests regularly showed that Exynos silicon was significantly slower than its Qualcomm-designed counterpart. This triggered debates around performance, battery life, and other crucial stats around each new Galaxy S generation. Thankfully, that argument is a thing of the past now, with every new Galaxy S23 model arriving with the shiny new Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 for Galaxy under the bonnet.

As well as a dramatic increase in gaming performance, Samsung says the new chipset unlocks faster 5G data transfer speeds, smarter AI, improved Wi-Fi 6E, and Bluetooth connectivity.

The new silicon is more efficient which, coupled with the beefy 5,000mAh cell, results in some solid battery life. Samsung says you can enjoy 26 hours of video playback before you’ll need to worry about finding a charger, but you can read our in-depth Galaxy S23 Ultra review to find out whether it lived up to that claim during our tests.

Galaxy S23 Ultra enjoys an impressive camera upgrade over the standard Galaxy S23 and Galaxy S23 Plus, thanks to the new 200-megapixel camera. This features a new Astro Hyerlapse mode, which Samsung has designed to take stunning shots of the stars. Night Mode also enjoys a quality bump thanks to the new 200-megapixel sensor, Samsung says.

By default, the camera will produce 12MP shots – with Samsung’s software combining information from multiple pixels to compensate for poor conditions. The result should be detailed, colourful, and well-lit photographs that remain small enough to send over email or WhatsApp without using all of your monthly 5G data allowance in one fell swoop.

It is possible to shoot images at full resolution using the main camera. With the dizzying number of pixels available in this mode, Galaxy S23 Ultra owners will be able to crop into photos without losing any image quality – perfect for prolific editors. Of course, like the Galaxy S23 and S23 Plus, a telephoto camera with 3x lossless optical zoom is also included in the tripel-camera array.

Budding Hollywood filmmakers can also shoot impressive videos in stunning 8K at 30 frames-per-second, with Super Quad Pixel technology that offers much better image stabilisation making home movies appear silky smooth.

Bargain-hunters, rejoice! There are already some incredible deals available on the Galaxy S23 Ultra.

For a limited time, Samsung is offering up to £450 off to anyone with a phone to trade-in. Of course, the exact discount will depend on the make and model of the phone you’re willing to part with – but Samsung will guarantee a £150 discount on its brand-new Galaxy S23 Ultra no matter what model, make, or condition you pledge to trade-in.

Yes, you can retrieve a busted Nokia 3310 from the back of a forgotten drawer and get a whopping £150 to send it off to Samsung! 

Helpfully, Samsung rewards you with its trade-in discount immediately at checkout – there’s no annoying rebate process. But while you get the price cut immediately you won’t need to send away your current phone until after the shiny new Galaxy S23 Ultra arrives in the post, so you’ll be able to transfer photos, contracts, apps and more between handsets.

Regardless of where you decide to purchase your Galaxy S23 Ultra, the all-new phone will arrive with a six-month subscription to Disney+ for free. You’ll be able to stream the latest must-see boxsets and blockbuster movies on your new phone, but the free subscription works on any device with a Disney+ app, so you’ll be able to watch on a Smart TV, console, Android tablet or iPad too.