Mint Mobile Phones, Deals and Bringing Your Own

The cheapest phone Mint Mobile sells is the Samsung Galaxy A37 5G, and the cheapest iPhone is the iPhone 17e at about $700 when Mint has it. The discounts go on Samsung and Google phones and are worded for new customers, and iPhones sell at Apple’s price. You can also skip Mint’s shop and bring an unlocked phone you already own.

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Each price is for the smallest storage size. The discount column is the limited-time price for new customers that Mint was showing, so treat it as a guide and check the price at checkout.

Stock comes and goes. Several colours and sizes were marked out of stock, the 256GB iPhone 17e and iPhone 17 Pro among them. The iPhone 17e, the iPhone 17 and the Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra were on Mint’s main phones page but missing from its more recent Apple and Samsung pages, which is what selling out looks like.

Every phone is locked, too. Mint’s spec table for each phone says it is not unlocked. Its unlock policy says a phone bought outright is locked to Mint for 60 days after activation, then unlocked automatically where that is technically possible.

Mint Mobile sells iPhones at Apple’s price

For the models Apple still sells, Mint’s prices match Apple’s own. Apple’s store lists the iPhone 17e from $699, the iPhone Air from $1,099 and the iPhone 18 Pro from $1,199, the same as Mint. Apple’s $899 for the iPhone 17 includes a $30 discount for activating with AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon, and Mint’s $929 is that price without it.

Paying full price either way, buying the same iPhone unlocked from Apple and bringing it to Mint costs the same and leaves you free to leave. Buy from Mint only if you want one checkout.

The conditions on Mint’s phone discounts

Mint takes its phone discounts off the price at checkout, and its terms call them instant savings. The Samsung and Pixel offers are both described as limited-time offers for new customers, limited to four phones per order on the Samsung offer and five on the Pixel one.

They come tied to a plan. The $500 off the Galaxy S26 phones requires bundling the phone with a 12-month Unlimited plan, paid as $180 upfront, and the Pixel 11 offer, up to $450 off, has the same condition. The pages for the Galaxy A37 5G and the Pixel 10a show their discounts beside the same 12-month plan offer but print no separate terms, so ask what plan they need before you pay.

The real sum for a new customer is the phone plus the plan. A Galaxy S26 at about $400 plus $180 for the year of Unlimited comes to about $580, before taxes and fees. A Galaxy A37 5G at about $350 plus the same plan is about $530.

Trade-in is extra. Mint advertises a further $400 or more off an S26 for an eligible unlocked trade-in: an iPhone 16 or newer, Galaxy S25 or newer, Z Flip or Fold 7 or newer, or Pixel 10 or newer, in working condition. It is handled by Allstate and paid by cheque.

Trade-in is also what Mint offers existing customers. Its help text says current subscribers can trade in a phone when buying a new one, without buying another plan.

Best phone for Mint Mobile

Under $400, take the Galaxy A37 5G, at about $350 with the discount. Mint lists a 6.7-inch AMOLED screen at 120Hz, an Exynos 1480 chip, a 50MP main camera and a 5,000mAh battery. Samsung promises up to six Android upgrades and up to six years of security updates for it, so it should outlast the plan several times over. It takes a physical SIM, where Mint lists the Pixel 10a as eSIM only.

The Pixel 10a is about $25 more with Mint’s discount, and buys longer support. Mint lists a 6.3-inch screen, Google’s Tensor G4 chip and a 5,100mAh battery, and Google promises seven years of system and security updates, a year more than Samsung. The 256GB version was out of stock at Mint.

The Galaxy S26 is the deal that gives Mint its headline. A $900 phone for about $400 is the largest discount in the shop as a share of the price. It is only that price with the 12-month Unlimited plan, and the cheaper 256GB version was showing as out of stock, with the 512GB at about $600.

The Galaxy Z Flip8 is the only flip-style phone in Mint’s shop, at about $1,000 with the discount. It is a folding smartphone. Mint does not sell a simple flip phone with buttons, so look among dumb phones for one of those.

Mint Mobile compatible phones

An unlocked phone bought elsewhere plus a Mint plan is the simple route if none of Mint’s discounts suits you. Mint’s bring-your-own-phone page asks for two things: the phone must be unlocked, and it must be compatible with the network, which Mint describes as working with 5G, 4G LTE and VoLTE. Its examples of phones that usually work are most unlocked GSM-network phones, unlocked phones from AT&T, T-Mobile, Cricket Wireless, Simple Mobile and Straight Talk, and most phones with a SIM card.

Do not rely on the list alone. Mint has a compatibility checker that takes the brand and model or, for a firmer answer, the phone’s IMEI number. Dial *#06# to see it. If the phone is unlocked and supports eSIM, Mint says you can activate straight after buying a plan without waiting for a SIM card.

Some makers publish their own answer. Motorola’s US spec sheets for the Moto G Power 2026 and Moto G Stylus 2026 list Mint Mobile as compatible, with 5G, VoLTE and Wi-Fi calling.

Mint also advertises three free months of its 6GB plan for new activations with a phone bought on Swappa, the used-phone marketplace. These unlocked phones are worth pricing against Mint’s shop:

• Moto G Power 2026 on Amazon, about $400 at Motorola, which names Mint as compatible
• Samsung Galaxy A37 5G on Amazon
• Google Pixel 10a on Amazon

Run any of them through Mint’s checker before you buy. The Motorola is also one of the Chinese-made phones under $500.

Mint Mobile plans

Mint sells service in blocks of 3, 6 or 12 months, paid upfront. The longer the block, the lower the monthly price. These are the regular monthly prices on Mint’s own broadband labels.

New customers get a lower opening price. Mint was offering any plan at $15 a month for the first term, which is $45 for 3 months, $90 for 6 or $180 for 12. Taxes and fees are extra. When that term ends, you renew at the prices in the table.

That makes the first year of Unlimited $180 and the second year $360 if you renew for 12 months. Unlimited has limits of its own: Mint says speeds may drop after 50GB in a month when the network is busy, hotspot use is capped at 20GB and video streams in standard definition.

Mint runs on T-Mobile’s network. Its own history page records that T-Mobile acquired Mint Mobile in May 2024. UScellular’s customers went the same way, and which Android phone suits a former UScellular line has a page of its own.