The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 is one of the best Android smartphones money can buy, but you need a lot of it. With an RRP of £869 it was a tough old sell, even if it offered a great performance and S Pen tricks aplenty.

But now with the release of the Galaxy S20 family, it’s becoming quite a bit more palatable, and the contract deal of the moment comes via Fonehouse. There, you can buy the Note 10 on EE with unlimited minutes, unlimited texts and 16GB of data for £28 per month, with £150 upfront . You’ll have to change the order of offers to see it – bafflingly it’s not the most popular deal yet – so change it to monthly cost and it’ll rise to the top.

But it gets better than that. Samsung is currently running a promotion where you can get £100 cashback for certain phone purchases – and both the Note 10 and Fonehouse are listed as options . That brings down the total cost over the duration of the contract to £722 – significantly cheaper than its original SIM-free price.

We haven’t been able to review the vanilla Note 10, but we did get our hands on the Note 10 Plus which offered a larger battery, more RAM, a microSD card slot, an extra depth-sensing camera, faster charging and a larger screen for £999. Nathan was a fan when he reviewed it – but definitely a fan with some concerns around pricing.

“The Galaxy Note 10 Plus is the best smartphone – Android or otherwise – that I’ve ever had the pleasure of using, and I genuinely don’t want to give it back,” he wrote. “It might require two hands and a mountain of cash, but it really doesn’t get much better than this.”

That mountain of cash is a fair bit smaller now, and even though it’s a few months old, you might consider this to be the prime time to bite.

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