Samsung School Must-Haves to Grab From Best Buy’s BTS Deals

Students consciously trying to live a healthier life

Between classes, studying and seeing friends, students often neglect the one thing that matters most: their health. Give them a helpful reminder of the importance of good health habits with the Samsung Galaxy Ring. Its small form factor makes it more comfortable and less obtrusive than most wrist-based models, while also lending it much better battery life: the Ring can last up to seven days on a single charge, all while tracking important health metrics like cardiovascular health, sleep quality, and even menstrual cycles. Pair it with your phone and Samsung’s Galaxy AI will assess your health data, providing you with helpful feedback and suggestions about where you have room to improve.

Gamers, graphic design students and anyone else needing a powerful laptop

If you want an ultra-powerful laptop with a vivid, extra-large screen, don’t sleep on Samsung’s gorgeous Galaxy Book4 Ultra. With 2880×1800 resolution, 400 nits of brightness and a 120Hz refresh rate, it does movies and games justice, while the 3.8 gigahertz Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card combine to tackle even the most demanding of tasks, whether that’s editing 4K video files or playing the latest triple-A games at high frame rates. It’s also got AI integration into the operating system thanks to Microsoft Copilot, allowing you to ask for basic image generation or document summaries with either text or voice input.

Gym junkies and anyone else who wants to get in better shape

Whether you’re a runner, weight lifter, swimmer or just looking to track your activity levels, the Samsung Galaxy Watch6 can offer you detailed information about your workouts, tracking distance, duration, calories burned, and time spent in each heart rate zone. The always-on heart monitoring keeps a constant eye on your heartbeat, alerting you to any irregularities, while the integrated sleep tracker will help you improve your sleep quality and duration. The watch itself is also a joy to use, thanks to its large, vibrant screen and rotating bezel, which makes navigating through the extensive app menu a total breeze.

Serious note takers

Samsung has seriously found the perfect solution to taking class notes, and it’s called the Galaxy Tab S9+. The S Pen (included in the box) makes it extremely easy to write by hand while still enjoying the security and portability afforded by digital text, while the integrated Galaxy AI makes previously mundane or time-consuming tasks like searching the web or summarizing and formatting your notes totally painless. It doesn’t hurt that it’s also a capable streaming device thanks to its gorgeous 2800×1752 AMOLED display, so that when you’re not taking notes or studying for a test you can stream your favorite content.

Creatives and visual artists who want a highly capable, do-anything machine

If you want a jack-of-all-trades laptop, look no further than the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Pro 360. The beautiful display makes reading or editing images a joy, while the touchscreen interface and foldable design allow for fast note-taking or intricate creative work with the included S-Pen stylus. Microsoft Copilot integration gives you a powerful digital assistant to help automate your most mundane tasks, while Samsung’s Galaxy Book security suite keeps your data, including your artist’s portfolio, protected from bad actors. The design itself is beautiful, with the laptop being surprisingly light and slim despite the extra-large screen, and boasting both an extra-large battery and a generous array of ports, including two Thunderbolt 4 ports, an HDMI 2.1 port, and a MicroSD card reader slot. 

Anyone looking for an easy dorm upgrade

A 50-inch 4K TV for under $300? Scratch that: a 50-inch 4K smart TV with built-in 4K upscaling, excellent contrast and integrated motion acceleration to eliminate screen blur? That’s a good deal. This Samsung big-screen TV will make you the automatic host of every dorm room movie night or watch party, but you can also harness Samsung’s Tizen OS to play games or stream live workouts when no one else is around.

People who want a powerful phone without sacrificing portability

The touchscreen may have killed flip phones, but that was before Samsung realized you could have the best of both worlds. Enter the Galaxy Z Flip6, a foldable smartphone powered by Galaxy AI to unleash incredible productivity hacks, from automatically framing your selfies to offering live translation services (on both sides of the screen) in up to 16 languages. The 50-megapixel rear-facing camera delivers stunning clarity to capture all your favorite school moments, while the 256GB of built-in storage ensures you have a place to store them. For an ultra-compact phone, there are remarkably few tradeoffs in terms of power or usability here, and its revolutionary design is sure to turn heads on campus.

Data hoarders, anyone who works with large media files and students look for a safe place to back up their files

An external hard drive might not be as snazzy or exciting as a gaming laptop or health tracker, but it’s a genuinely useful tool for college students looking to back up their most important files or manage large multimedia libraries. The Samsung T7 uses an SSD with USB 3.2 connectivity to unlock maximum read speeds of 1050 megabytes per second and maximum write speeds of 1000 megabytes per second. Don’t speak tech? This hard drive is fast, so you can spend more time dragging and dropping files and less time waiting for them to transfer. There’s even built-in, 256-bit AES encryption, so you can password-protect your files with ease.

Music lovers & party hosts

Sure, college is for classes and studying and getting an education; we don’t dispute that. But college is also about making memories, letting loose and dancing with your friends into the early morning hours, and there’s no better way to do that than with Samsung’s Sound Tower. It connects to your phone using Bluetooth, making it easy for you to DJ or use a playlist, while the built-in party lights help set the mood. Add to that bi-directional sound, 160 watts of audio power, and IPX5 water resistance, as well as the ability to sync multiple Sound Towers together for larger gatherings, and you have the perfect recipe for an epic party.