150 Best Prime Day Deals 2022: TVs, Phones, Laptops & More Technology

Original post (07/12/22 3:50 am ET): Tuesday marks the start of Amazon Prime Day, a two-day shopping event that Amazon created in 2015 to bolster its Prime subscription service, which is needed to shop for most (but not all) of the discounts available during the promotion. help boost sales during a typically slow online shopping period.

To be clear, Amazon continues to be a behemoth that has done (and still does) many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many things worthy of criticism , and Prime Day itself tends to be loaded with a particularly high number of offers on junky products and misleading “discounts” that don’t make products significantly cheaper than they usually are.

Nevertheless, even if only a fraction of Prime Day’s offerings are real deals, the overall selection is huge enough for that fraction to make this one of the better shopping days of the year, with several valuable products available at prices typically reserved. before the end of the year holiday events like Black Friday. This is especially true for the kind of gadgets and tech gear we cover on Ars.

After spending several hours sifting through the thousands of offers in Amazon’s latest Prime Day selection over the past week, we can confirm that it’s the case again this year. So for those looking to buy a new piece of tech at a discount, we’ve put together a hand-picked list of the best Prime Day deals we can find.

As is the case with our regular “Dealmaster” roundups, we mainly included products that we have tested and can approve at Ars. For the things we haven’t used, we rely on recommendations from multiple review sites and publications that we trust. We verified that every deal is real by using price tracking tools like Keepa, CamelCamelCamel, IsThereAnyDeal, Deku Deals and the like. If a product hasn’t been noticeably cheaper than the regular street price in the past three to six months (which isn’t the same as a product’s suggested retail price and is in parentheses between each point below), we won’t list it. (Since every product’s price history is different, the exact percentage that makes a discount “notable” may differ, but in general we won’t emphasize anything when it comes to a price we’ve seen several times in the previous weeks. increase.) Any deal must also come from a reputable seller (ie not an unnamed third party).

We’ve got a comprehensive recap to get you started, but we’ll be updating this post as the day goes on to add good deals we missed, cross out expired offers, and make sure prices are up to date. But now let our research help you get to the right things faster.

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