Samsung Galaxy S20 5G Preorders Begin Friday; Sprint Offers BOGO With Flex Lease

Retailers will begin taking preorders Friday for Samsung's 5G S20 ($849), S20 Plus ($1,049) and S20 Ultra ($1,349) flagship smartphones due in stores March 6. Sprint’s offer to customers switching to its service is $0 per month for the Galaxy S20 when they trade in a Galaxy S8 or newer model in any condition. In a buy-one-get-one offer, customers who lease a Galaxy S20, 20 Plus or Ultra 5G can get an S20 included with a Sprint Flex lease, it said. The carrier's True Mobile 5G network covers about 20 million people in nine metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, New York, Phoenix and Washington, D.C., it said. Sprint claims an average download speed of 213 Mbps, some five times faster than its LTE service. Best Buy’s website says it's offering up to $850 in savings on Galaxy S20 series purchases for qualified activation and trade-in, plus a $200 Samsung credit, when customers preorder by March 5. On Thursday, trade-in values topped out at $700 for latest-generation Samsung and Apple phones and at $600 for the Google Pixel 4 XL, said Bestbuy.com. The trade-in value is applied to a Best Buy gift card. T-Mobile was taking online sign-ups to be notified when customers could order the new Galaxy phones. It noted that “5G is still developing,” not all devices are compatible and a 5G uplink isn't available.