Edited: All of the CPW deals for the XL have vanished. Only EE seem to be offering any contracts for the XL, and I've only seen Pixel 2 deals on CPW, EE and Mobiles.co.uk - if you see anywhere else offering anything please let me know! Deals below updated
I need a new phone and quite like the look of the Pixel 2 XL, so I've gone through all the deals on all of the sites to try and find the best deals currently available. I've looked for two things - cheapest overall deal and cheapest deal over 24 months with a decent amount of data (at least 5GB).
As they were only announced yesterday they're only in a couple of places, so I'll try to keep this updated as more sites offer the phones:
I haven't seen any deals for the 128GB Pixel 2 yet - will add if I find any.
Results follow:
Pixel 2 64GB with free Google Home Mini Cheapest overall deal: Carphone Warehouse - EE (first deal at link) . 1 month contract, pay £589 upfront and £13.99 per month for 250 minutes, 250MB and unlimited texts. Cancel after one month and total cost is £602.99 (cheaper than buying outright at £629)
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data: Mobiles.co.uk - EE (first deal at link). 24 month contract, pay £225 upfront and £27.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 5GB data (4G). TCO: £896.76
Cheapest over 24 months (including change of contract): Take the first deal from CPW and grab a £12 per month sim only deal from Three (12 months - link) for Unlimited minutes and texts and 12GB data. TCO over 24 months: £878.99. There's only £20 in it, so you may be better off with the Mobiles.co.uk deal above and not having to worry about phones being locked and changing contracts. Note: you will need to check that the phone is unlocked or unlockable. EE say that it is free to unlock at the end of the contract or after 6 months in a contract - so best to check.
Pixel 2 128GB with free Google Home Mini Cheapest overall deal: Carphone Warehouse - EE (first deal at link) . 1 month contract, pay £689 upfront and £13.99 per month for 250 minutes, 250MB and unlimited texts. Cancel after one month and total cost is £702.99 (cheaper than buying outright at £729)
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data: Mobiles.co.uk - EE (first deal at link). 24 month contract, pay £300 upfront and £27.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 5GB data (4G). TCO: £971.76
Cheapest over 24 months (including change of contract): Take the deal from Mobiles.co.uk listed above.
Pixel 2 XL 64GB with free Google Home Mini Cheapest overall deal: Buy outright from Google at link for £799
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data: EE (find on the page at link). 24 month contract, pay £9.99 upfront and £57.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 8GB data (4G). TCO: £1,401.75
Best way to buy: Buy outright from Google as above and grab a £12 per month sim only deal from Three (12 months - link) for Unlimited minutes and texts and 12GB data. TCO over 12 months: £1,087
Pixel 2 XL 128GB with free Google Home Mini Cheapest overall deal: Buy outright from Google at link for £899
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data: EE (find on the page at link). 24 month contract, pay £9.99 upfront and £62.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 8GB data (4G). TCO: £1,521.75
Best way to buy: Buy outright from Google as above and grab a £12 per month sim only deal from Three (12 months - link) for Unlimited minutes and texts and 12GB data. TCO over 12 months: £1,187
Hoping that we get some more deals showing up soon - none of these are amazing yet!
Thank you for the link - but I asked Where the ""Deals"" were and as yet Nobody has actually sent Various (more than one as in plural) deals relating to price....stop Moaning about SIM and Headphone Port..can we have some Competitive as in Plural Deal Pricing either on Contract or SIM Free....
Surely some of you """ Experts"" can provide said information
Many Thanks :smile: Rob..
bellboys to Robjh
6 Oct 17#44
Reading this post I said to myself 'I bet this poster has NEVER POSTED A DEAL on this site' Lo and behold, I was right. almost 4 years on here and not one deal posted. Sort yourself out, oh lazy one....
mgb20
5 Oct 17#2
No headphone jack and an eSim ( a sim that is built into the phone and can't be removed) make this a big NO for me.
LukeyWolf to mgb20
5 Oct 17#3
An eSim you serious? Google what went wrong
LadyEleanor to LukeyWolf
5 Oct 17#29
No headphone jack is bad. They are only fishing, for now, with the esim. With HDMI also gone, The release of translate ear pods likely means ever more native functionality will get stolen away,
It is strange that our semi obsolete devices are now better.
Robot_Rooster to mgb20
5 Oct 17#4
Seriously? No headphone jack? Of all the things to copy from Apple they chose the least well received one.
finnmaccool to Robot_Rooster
5 Oct 17#33
Nothing worse than less holes to shove your stuff into.
Trending to mgb20
5 Oct 17#6
There is still a slot for nano SIM card. Do your research before posting and confusing others.
RadiantDuck to mgb20
5 Oct 17#10
Agreed about the headphone jack, but it has a standard nano sim tray as well as an e-sim, so that shouldn't bother you at all. Plus as a technology sounds like a good idea once all the UK networks support it.
Richief to mgb20
5 Oct 17#17
I thought the eSim only worked with project Fi (googles own network) which is only in the US. I hope their is a sim slot.
stoney73 to mgb20
5 Oct 17#18
it also has a nano SIM, you just have to look at the specs.
jimlad21 to mgb20
5 Oct 17#21
fool - stop spreading useless untrue infor
Both devices still have a nano-SIM slot but they also use eSIMs like that on the Apple Watch Series 3. So long as your carrier supports it, you just have to download a virtual SIM during the setup process to activate service. Needless to say, that's a welcome change if you're tired of the usual SIM swapping ritual needed for upgrading handsets.
esudl
5 Oct 17#5
eSim, how does that effect locking of phone to network?
mgb20 to esudl
5 Oct 17#9
As far as I understand (I might be wrong), you register the phone with your network and your number is transferred to the eSim. I don't know what happens if you decide to sell the phone later though. It also means that you cannot go to another country i.e. Spain and purchase a local sim to use in the phone. It's not proving popular with phone owners according to comments on tech forums.
stoney73 to mgb20
5 Oct 17#19
Come on , look at the specs at least before scaremongering.
zelazny
5 Oct 17#7
I understand it has an eSim but it only works with Project Fi (Google's network in the US) - for everywhere else it takes a nano Sim as well.
Lack of headphone port is annoying, but I've been on bluetooth headphones for a little while.
I'm waiting for some better offers on the XL - want to pay less upfront
dpb_69
5 Oct 17#8
Awful deals. surely more will be added on the CPW website?
Why are there no vodafone upgrade offers on the Pixel XL 2
zelazny
5 Oct 17#11
There don't seem to be any other sites offering deals yet - once some of the smaller places start to get offers in place (hopefully in the next couple of days) we should see some more competition and better deals. Currently there's the stuff on the EE website (fairly terrible offers) and the ones on Carphone Warehouse (slightly better but still room to improve)
BristolBillyBob
5 Oct 17#12
Out of interest, does anyone have any experience of using a mobile with headphones on USB-C with an adaptor instead of a normal headphone jack? Does the plug stay in as securely? Do you find the adaptor snags on pockets or clothes and unplugs itself or anything annoying like that? Toying between the Pixel 2 XL and the S8+, and I get really annoyed with these kinds of little niggles. :smile:
bhara to BristolBillyBob
5 Oct 17#16
Aslong as you buy a decent set of headphones it's fine. Moved from Samsung to Pixel and much prefer the pixel as it has less bloatware and the camera quality is amazing.
BristolBillyBob to bhara
5 Oct 17#27
Thanks for the thoughts. I had a Nexus 4 way back when and loved bloat-free Android. I've adored my Samsung S6 Edge, probably my all-time favourite phone, but sorely tempted by the P2XL... :smile:
sam_of_london to BristolBillyBob
5 Oct 17#30
Better buy HTC life with Android One
BristolBillyBob to sam_of_london
5 Oct 17#32
Oh, why's that? :smile:
sam_of_london to BristolBillyBob
5 Oct 17#34
You still get the updates with Android One .
the.porter
5 Oct 17#14
When does it ship?
zelazny to the.porter
5 Oct 17#15
For the Pixel 2 it's a couple of weeks. Pixel 2 XL is saying middle of November.
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Opening post
I need a new phone and quite like the look of the Pixel 2 XL, so I've gone through all the deals on all of the sites to try and find the best deals currently available. I've looked for two things - cheapest overall deal and cheapest deal over 24 months with a decent amount of data (at least 5GB).
As they were only announced yesterday they're only in a couple of places, so I'll try to keep this updated as more sites offer the phones:
I haven't seen any deals for the 128GB Pixel 2 yet - will add if I find any.
Results follow:
Pixel 2 64GB with free Google Home Mini
Cheapest overall deal:
Carphone Warehouse - EE (first deal at link) . 1 month contract, pay £589 upfront and £13.99 per month for 250 minutes, 250MB and unlimited texts. Cancel after one month and total cost is £602.99 (cheaper than buying outright at £629)
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data:
Mobiles.co.uk - EE (first deal at link). 24 month contract, pay £225 upfront and £27.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 5GB data (4G). TCO: £896.76
Cheapest over 24 months (including change of contract):
Take the first deal from CPW and grab a £12 per month sim only deal from Three (12 months - link) for Unlimited minutes and texts and 12GB data. TCO over 24 months: £878.99. There's only £20 in it, so you may be better off with the Mobiles.co.uk deal above and not having to worry about phones being locked and changing contracts.
Note: you will need to check that the phone is unlocked or unlockable. EE say that it is free to unlock at the end of the contract or after 6 months in a contract - so best to check.
Pixel 2 128GB with free Google Home Mini
Cheapest overall deal:
Carphone Warehouse - EE (first deal at link) . 1 month contract, pay £689 upfront and £13.99 per month for 250 minutes, 250MB and unlimited texts. Cancel after one month and total cost is £702.99 (cheaper than buying outright at £729)
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data:
Mobiles.co.uk - EE (first deal at link). 24 month contract, pay £300 upfront and £27.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 5GB data (4G). TCO: £971.76
Cheapest over 24 months (including change of contract):
Take the deal from Mobiles.co.uk listed above.
Pixel 2 XL 64GB with free Google Home Mini
Cheapest overall deal:
Buy outright from Google at link for £799
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data:
EE (find on the page at link). 24 month contract, pay £9.99 upfront and £57.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 8GB data (4G). TCO: £1,401.75
Best way to buy:
Buy outright from Google as above and grab a £12 per month sim only deal from Three (12 months - link) for Unlimited minutes and texts and 12GB data. TCO over 12 months: £1,087
Pixel 2 XL 128GB with free Google Home Mini
Cheapest overall deal:
Buy outright from Google at link for £899
Best deal over 24 months with at least 5GB data:
EE (find on the page at link). 24 month contract, pay £9.99 upfront and £62.99 per month for unlimited minutes and texts and 8GB data (4G). TCO: £1,521.75
Best way to buy:
Buy outright from Google as above and grab a £12 per month sim only deal from Three (12 months - link) for Unlimited minutes and texts and 12GB data. TCO over 12 months: £1,187
Hoping that we get some more deals showing up soon - none of these are amazing yet!
All comments (79)
Surely some of you """ Experts"" can provide said information
Many Thanks :smile:
Rob..It is strange that our semi obsolete devices are now better.
Both devices still have a nano-SIM slot but they also use eSIMs like that on the Apple Watch Series 3. So long as your carrier supports it, you just have to download a virtual SIM during the setup process to activate service. Needless to say, that's a welcome change if you're tired of the usual SIM swapping ritual needed for upgrading handsets.
Lack of headphone port is annoying, but I've been on bluetooth headphones for a little while.
I'm waiting for some better offers on the XL - want to pay less upfront
Why are there no vodafone upgrade offers on the Pixel XL 2