The Best Prime Day Tech Deals [UPDATING]

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Are you feeling overwhelmed yet? We here at Uproxx are here to help. If you haven’t done so yet, be sure to take a look at our five golden rules for Prime Day, as well as a list of all of the apps you’re going to need to ensure a successful deal nabbing experience.

Prime Day is usually a nightmare for tech fans, who have to wade out among the off-brand electronics and seemingly bottomless collections of one item or another (this year, creepily, it’s surveillance cameras) to find the deals. So, we’re taking the liberty of curating the deals as the sale rolls out, picking out the stuff worth buying and that you’ll actually use.

Lenovo Tab 3

Goes Live: 3:19pm
Why You Should Watch This Deal: Tablets are good to have around the house, but they’re not generally worth getting if they’re cheap. The Lenovo Tab is the rare exception; it’s already pretty cheap and this deal will likely be even cheaper. If you’re not a fan of Amazon’s ‘ecosystem’ of software, this is a good alternative to the Kindle Fire

EasyAcc Double-deck Multi-device Charging Organization Station

Goes Live: 4:19pm
Why You Should Watch This Deal: If you’re in a household with a lot of tablets, phones, and chargers, this little sorter is a good way to keep them all in one place, and keep your cords out of the way.

Esinkin Bluetooth Audio Adapter

Goes Live: 5:39pm
Why You Should Watch This Deal: If you’re a music fan with a great hi-fi, this little guy makes it easy to connect to just about any stereo and run your Spotify playlists, digital music, and other sounds through it.

Acer Switch Alpha

Goes Live: 5:59pm
Why You Should Watch This Deal: The Switch, not to be mistaken for the Nintendo console (good luck getting that on sale!) is a “transformer” that can switch from tablet to laptop with ease.

1byOne Turntable

Goes Live: 6:39pm
Why You Should Watch This Deal: Vinyl is coming back, and that means you need a turntable. But this turntable also ensures that you can put your music on MP3 and take it with you, and play back MP3s.

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 Ultimate Starter Kit

Goes Live: 8:19pm
Why You Should Watch This Deal: If you’re interested in learning how computers work, or building your own gadgets, there’s no better place to start than the Raspberry Pi. Kids especially will love this starter kit.

Missed Deals

Lenovo Yoga Tab 3

Goes Live: 9:00pm
Why You Should Watch This Deal: If you’re looking for a portable media tablet that handles everything, this will be your best bet. Amazon is offering a deal where you can get even the model with the projector as a lower price, for once, and if you’re not interested in Amazon’s loss leader tablets, which do trap you in Amazon’s custom version of Android, this will be a nice alternative.

LG 34UM68-P 34″ Monitor

Goes Live: 3:00am
Why You Should Watch This Deal: This $600 monitor is dirt, dirt cheap and will probably be the best deal of the entire sale. If you can stay up long enough, and have the room for such a giant work surface for your computer, it’s a must-buy.

Safemore 8 Outlet & 4 USB Port Power Strip

Goes Live: 8:00am
Why You Should Watch This Deal: Unlike a lot of power strips, this one’s designed to be simple and accessible, and it’ll either sit on the floor or on your desk, happily charging your stuff, and meeting all your power strip needs in a much more handy way. It’s even got an easy to access switch on the top.

HP Laptop 14-an013nr

Goes Live: 9:00am
Why You Should Watch This Deal: Amazon is promoting this laptop as its “preferred browsing laptop,” and while this HP laptop isn’t exactly a stunner in the specs department, it’s a cheap, solid laptop for people who need one they can beat into the ground, or hand to the kids to beat into the ground. If you’ve got a kid going to college, or a need for a computer that does the basics, this looks to be your best bet.

NETGEAR AC1200 WiFi Range Extender

Goes Live: 7:10am
Why You Should Watch This Deal: Sick of your WiFi crapping out around the house? If you’ve got a spare outlet, Netgear’s range extender will make this a thing of the past. If you’re sick of stuttering Netflix, one of these should fix the problem.

Anker Soundcore Mini

Goes Live: 11:00am
Why You Should Watch This Deal: Anker is one of the most reliable brands of electronic accessories out there, and their portable Bluetooth speakers are among their most popular, and durable, items. If you take music with you, this will be the speaker you listen to.

Still on the Amazon Prime fence? Here’s a summary all of the benefits to help you sort out whether or not the subscription service, which is currently about to surpass cable television, is worth it.
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