Prime Day live blog – finding all the best deals this side of Black Friday

Amazon's Prime Day Early Access Sale is now on day 2, and it's delivering Black Friday price cuts

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Welcome to Amazon Prime Day. It‘s the second and final day of what Amazon are calling the Prime Early Access Sale – snappy title, huh? Think of it as the start of the Black Friday deals and sales season, and your first chance to snap up some pre-Christmas savings. As usual, there’s offers on coffee machines, air fryers, SSDs, laptops, some rare console deals and everything else you could conceivably want. Oh, and Amazon devices of course. If you’re after an Echo speaker or Fire TV streamer or Ring security system, today is a good day to get stuck in. 

The Prime Day Early Access Sale runs  until 11.59pm on Wednesday 12th October. Only Amazon Prime members can take advantage of these deals, but don’t worry; it’s not an exclusive club. If you're not already a member, you can always sign up to a 30-day free trial

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Prime Day best deals on tech and home gear

Amazon may well largely see Prime Day as a great time to flog Kindle, Fire and Echo devices but the savings don't end there by any means. Here's our pick of the best tech and home deals we've found so far from brands owned by people other than Jeff Bezos…

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Insignia Fire TV

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Amazon Fire TVs get early discounts in the US and UK

In the US, Amazon Fire TVs are already discounted ahead of the main sale event. Insignia Fire TV models are up to 38% off. The best deal though is on the Insignia 55-inch model, now $279.99 down from $449.99. 

In the UK, the JVC 32-inch Fire TV is now £199.99, down from £249.99.

Samsung QN800B Neo QLED 8K TV

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Samsung 8K TV deal

Talking TVs, here's an excellent deal for anyone looking to upgrade to an 8K TV. Right now this Samsung 55-inch Neo QLED 8K TV is £1,799 down from £2,449.99. That's a 27% saving on the list price and not far off the price of many top 4K models. The 55-inch model is the smallest of the range but there's also savings on the larger models too, such as 32% off the 75-inch model, taking that down to £3,399. 

Amazon Prime Early Access TV deals

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Ok, now let's surface some great TV deals on offer right now in the Prime Early Access sale. T3's TV expert, Mat Gallagher, has hand picked some of the best TV offers available, with models from LG, Samsung, Panasonic and JVC on offer.

Prices start at just £145, and there are also discounts on the very well rated LG C1.

Fitbit Versa 4 deal

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Prime Early Access has great deals across every product area you can imagine, and our fitness expert, Matt Kollat, has dug out the best Prime Early Access deals on Fitbit fitness trackers.

There's four price cuts of note, including cost carves on the Fitbit Sense, Fitbit Versa 2, Fitbit Versa 3 and Fitbit Charge 5. The biggest price cut is on the Fitbit Versa 2, which sees a whopping £43.99 sliced off its cost.

Many of these Fitbits feature in T3's best Fitbit buying guide, so you're buying quality.

Thrustmaster T300 RS GT Force Feedback Racing Wheel

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In the market for cheap video games and accessories? Then Amazon's Prime Early Access Sale is definitely worth checking out, as it is stuffed with great gaming discounts.

There's cost carves on gaming headsets, gaming controllers, steering wheel and peddle combos, games for every major platform including PS5 and Xbox Series X, and even console offers.

For example, the Xbox Series S is now 13 per cent off! Be quick to avoid disappointment.

Philips Hue sale, smart lighting deals, smart home deals

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We love smart home products here at T3 and, when it comes to smart home lighting, Philips Hue is the market leader.

So it's great news that the Prime Early Access Sale is stuffed full of Philips Hue discounts, with a wide variety of products reduced in price.

From light strips to wake-up lights, standard bulbs and onto up-lighters and starter kits, Amazon is a great place to shop Philips Hue right now.

Philips Hue has won T3's Best Smart Lighting Award countless times over the past 5 years at the T3 Awards, so its quality is beyond doubt. Well worth checking out if you want to bring some smart, colour-changing light to your home.

Garmin fitness tracker

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Garmin smartwatches are among the best in the business, and the Prime Day Early Access Sale has plenty of great Garmin products discounted, as surfaced by T3's fitness watch expert Matt Kollat.

For example, the Garmin Instinct Solar is cut from £319.99 to £144.99, while the Garmin Edge 130 Plus is down to £109.99 from £169.99.

For even more great Garmin products, be sure to check out T3's best Garmin watch buying guide.

Amazon Prime Day Early Access sale

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When we say there is good deals on in the Prime Day Early Access Sale we really do mean it, with a large amount of 5-star rated products discounted.

Indeed, T3's Reviews Editor Yasmine Crossland has rounded up a number of 5-star products that are currently discounted at Amazon.

These products include Sony's superb WH-1000XM4 wireless noise-canceling headphones, the OnePlus Nord 2 Android smartphone, the Amazon Echo Show 10 smart home hub, and the Razer Hunstman V2 gaming keyboard.

There's loads more, too, and each one has been awarded our maximum 5-star score on test, so you know you're buying quality.

Roomba S9+

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Roomba robovac with 35% off

If you'd rather leave the whole vacuuming process to robots, there are some big discounts in the robovac department too. The iRobot Roomba S9+ is a top-of-the-range model that features an automatic emptying dock and a squarer front design with corner brush to get right into those hard-to-reach edges. While the list price is a whopping £1499.99, right now it's down to £969, which is a £530.99 discount.  

Browse all Robovac deals in the Amazon Prime sale

Friends Trivial Pursuit

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Board games for less

Taking time away from the live blog, Dep Ed Rob Jones has put together this great list of cheap board games in the Amazon Prime Sale. As the nights are drawing in, it's the perfect time to break out a board game and you'll find a range here for both kids and adults. 

I'm a big Trivial Pursuit fan myself, and I've just spotted this Friends Trivial Pursuit Quiz Game with 60% off. This is a bite-sized version of the full game and features 600 questions on everyone's favourite 90s coffee bar-based TV show. 

View all board game and card game deals at Amazon

Waterpik flosser

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Waterpik Water Flosser 39% off

I've recommended this product before and I'll do so again as it's not only a great product but it also has a decent discount. The Waterpik Ultra Professional Water Flosser is now £54.99, which is a 39% discount on the regular price. You can get either the white or black version for this price (the blue and grey models are still full RRP). I find it much better than the handheld versions. 

Sony WH-1000XM5

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Sony 5-star headphones 21% off

The Sony WH-1000XM5 are T3's best wireless headphones and right now you can pick them up for £80 less. That's the WH-1000XM5 for £299 in either white or black. A very good-looking, and great sounding pair of headphones, now for less. 

Browse all headphones deals in the Amazon Prime Sale

Air fryers, anyone?

Young man cooking with modern air fryer to cook healthy food without using oil at home in kitchen

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Mic check, one TWO. I'm Duncan Bell and I will be your deals spirit guide for a while now, until I get bored and hand it back to Mat G, in the place to be. 

Now, whether you have a swanky kitchen, like this guy, or a crap kitchen, unlike this guy, an air fryer is this year's hottest culinary upgrade. Of that there is no doubt. The best of the bunch in the Amazon Prime Day sale is the Tefal Actifry Genius XL 2in1 – as the name suggests, it's large, it has two cooking zones, and it's genius. It's also nearly half price, but probably not for long!

There are also deals on air fryers from popular budget brands Tower and Cosori and also Scandinavian brand Princess, Tristar and Bear. Furthermore, there's money off Instant Pots, including their Pro Crisp which is both an Instant Pot and an air fryer!

Come to my pad

Belkin charging pad

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Some products are born great. Other achieve greatness by getting a bloody great price drop. No offence to Belkin, but its BoostCharge Wireless Charging Pad definitely fits that category. One of these things for 45 quid in a cost of living crisis? Thank you but I rather think not. For £10, however? Now you're talking my language baby – and I like it. 

The Belkin BoostCharge Wireless Charging Pad 7.5W Special Edition, Wireless portable charger with AC adapter included, Qi-Certified Wireless Charger for iPhone,... to give it its full name is available for next-day delivery and is 78% off its usual price. The 10w model is down to £15 (from £20), while the 15w one remains obstinately at £30.

Take in an Echo Show

Amazon Echo Show 8

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Amazon devices have been on sale for a few days already with the pick of the deals being up to 42% off the Echo Show models. The best of the best is the Echo Show 8 (second gen) with is down to just £69.99. This features an 8-inch HD screen and a 13MP camera, making it a great choice for video calls and controlling your smart home devices – including a Ring doorbell. Scroll down at high speed to see more Amazon devices deals. Quick, before the page refreshes again – oh, too late.

Run, don't walk for these deals

running earbuds deals

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After a new pair of earbuds for the gym or running? Fitness freak matt Kollat has a guide to the very best Prime Day running headphones deals, which I have summarised here.

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