Get a free £100 Currys gift card with the Google Pixel 8a mobile plan

This budget smartphone deal will give you £100 gift card without spending a fortune

Freebies are hard to come by these days, but this mobile deal will land you a £100 Currys gift card with no strings attached.

Mobiles.co.uk is offering a fantastic budget mobile deal that won't leave your wallet feeling light. For a monthly cost of £14.99 and an upfront fee of £59, you can bag yourself a Google Pixel 8a along with a free £100 Currys gift card.

Over the course of the 24-month contract, you'll shell out £418, but the inclusion of the £100 gift card brings your total down to £318 - a steal if ever there was one.

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The service provider is iD Mobile, and the deal includes a whopping 100GB of data as well as unlimited minutes and texts - all for just £14.99 a month. It's a top-notch budget mobile deal. Our sister paper, the Daily Express, reviewed the Google Pixel 8a and gave it a glowing endorsement as a budget smartphone.

The Pixel 8a is a more affordable, curvier variant of the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro. It's a reasonably compact phone boasting an excellent camera, all-day battery life, solid performance, and seven years of software support.

Unlike the glass-backed £699 Pixel 8 and £999 Pixel 8 Pro, the 8a sports a plastic back. Its matte finish effectively conceals fingerprints and is less prone to shattering or cracking if dropped. The phone also has a more rounded design than its siblings and features thicker black bezels around the screen. The main 64MP sensor used is the same one you'll find on 2023's Pixel 7a.

The phone is powered by Google's Tensor G3 chip, which, while not the most potent Android processor on the market, is the same one found in other Pixel 8 phones. This makes it a bargain, considering it's half the price of the Pixel 8 Pro. However, the display quality leaves something to be desired. It's a 6.1-inch OLED panel that looks fantastic most of the time, but colours distort when you tilt the phone at an angle, revealing banding typical of cheaper devices.

If you're in the market for a new Android phone and don't want to break the bank, the Pixel 8a is a solid choice. Alternatively, Sky offers some of the most affordable prices on the market - but beware: these are lengthy 36-month contracts. They offer the iPhone Pro from £33 a month, excluding the airtime plan, if you're willing to spend a bit more.