The iPhone 15 Pro launched at $999. Today, Best Buy sells it for $619.99 – $379 off, a 38% drop in less than two years. Most buyers never see that number because retailers do not show launch prices on the product page. So you walk into the deal blind, with no idea whether $619.99 is a once-in-a-year low or the floor before the next markdown.
The MobileTracker Phone Price History Tracker exists to fix that. It is a single dashboard that follows the daily price of every phone we review on Best Buy, anchors it to the original launch MSRP, and shows you the entire trajectory so you can answer the only question that matters: is this actually a good time to buy?
A live example
Here is the live chart for the iPhone 15 Pro right now, pulled directly from the tracker. The green baseline is the launch price, the blue line is the current Best Buy price. The gap between them is what you save by buying now instead of buying at launch.
Price history: iPhone 15 Pro
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If you had bought this phone two months after launch, you would have paid $999. Today you pay $619.99 for the same hardware. The model is six months from being two generations old, so the discount almost certainly grows further before it disappears.
What the tracker shows you
The dashboard has three layers and you can use whichever level of detail is useful to you.
1. Summary stats at the top
How many phones we are actively tracking, how many price data points have been recorded, the average current price across our catalog, and when the last automatic fetch ran. The 30-second answer to “is this site current?” – and the answer should be yes, every day at 06:00 UTC.
2. Highlight cards
Four cards surface the most interesting movements right now:
- Biggest price drop – which phone has fallen the most from its launch price. If you have been waiting on a specific model, this is where you find out the wait paid off.
- Lowest price now – the cheapest tracked phone in the catalog, useful when budget is the primary filter.
- Premium pick – the most expensive phone currently tracked, framing the top of the market.
- Most reviewed – the phone with the highest Best Buy customer review volume, a quick proxy for popularity.
3. The full grid
Every phone in our review database appears as a card with a 30-day price sparkline, current price, 30-day low, 30-day high, and a green or red change badge. Filter by brand, sort by biggest drop, search by name. Click any card to jump to the full review with the full chart embedded right under the verdict.
Three ways this saves you money
Time your purchase around the calendar
Phone prices follow predictable rhythms. New-generation announcements (September for Apple, January for Samsung, August for Google) routinely drop the previous generation by 15 to 30 percent within weeks. Black Friday and Prime Day add another step down. If you can see the chart, you can spot the trough before everyone else does.
Spot the fake discounts
“Save $200” promotions look great until you check the actual price history. Sometimes the “regular price” was inflated two weeks before the sale started so the discount math worked out. Our chart shows the real 30-day high, low, and average – so a discount has to clear that bar to be meaningful, not just look meaningful in marketing copy.
Compare like-for-like, not just sticker for sticker
Two phones at the same current price can be very different deals. One might be near its all-time low; the other might be inflated above its 90-day average. The tracker gives you that context in a single glance – the badge color tells you which is the better moment to act.
Where the data comes from
We fetch live prices from Best Buy via their official Open API every day at 06:00 UTC. Each fetch matches a phone by stored SKU or by name search and records the current sale price as a fresh data point. Over time, every phone builds its own daily history that drives the chart.
Each phone also has a separate launch price data point – the official MSRP from when the phone was first released. That sets the green baseline on every chart so you can immediately see how far the price has moved since day one, not just over the last month.
Amazon support is on the roadmap. Once it is live, every chart will show both Best Buy and Amazon side by side so you can see which retailer is offering the better deal at any given moment – and switch between them with a glance.
Try it now
The tracker is live and updating daily. Open the Phone Price History Tracker to see today’s biggest drops across our catalog, or visit any individual phone review to see that model’s full price chart embedded under the verdict.
If there is a phone we are not yet tracking that you would like added, let us know – the catalog grows every week.