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If you spend any amount of time online this week, you’ll almost certainly see dozens of articles telling you what products to buy during this year’s Amazon Prime Day sale. With millions of items on sale during Amazon’s big shopping event, you need some guidance to find the best deals worth buying.
However, equally important is advice about what not to buy. This is especially true for Android phones. There are some truly great smartphone deals available for Prime Day, but there are others you shouldn’t touch with a Galaxy S26 Ultra-sized pole.
To ensure you don’t buy something you’ll soon regret, here are five Android phones you absolutely shouldn’t buy on Prime Day 2026.
What do you think is the worst Android phone to buy on Prime Day 2026? 19 votes Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold 11 % Samsung Galaxy S25 Edge 21 % Motorola Moto G Play (2024) 11 % Motorola Razr Plus (2024) 11 % Samsung Galaxy A56 47 % Other (let us know in the comments) 0 %
Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold
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We’ll kick things off with the most expensive phone on this list: the Google Pixel 10 Pro Fold. If you’re purely looking at the phone’s Prime Day discount, it might seem like a killer deal. The Pixel 10 Pro Fold normally retails for $1,799, but only during Prime Day can you buy it for $1,399 — a new all-time low price.
While the discount is technically very good, the Pixel 10 Pro Fold just isn’t that impressive of a foldable. It’s considerably thicker and heavier than its competitors, its cameras are pretty disappointing, and the Tensor G5 chip feels underpowered for a phone this expensive. It’s not a terrible phone, but it’s also not a great phone — even when you factor in the Prime Day price.
The Pixel 10 Pro Fold becomes an even harder Prime Day buy when you consider that the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is also on sale. It’s slightly more expensive at $1,499, but your extra $100 goes a long way. Compared to Google’s folding phone, Samsung’s model has a significantly more comfortable design, much better cameras, a vastly more powerful chipset, and better foldable software, too.
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