30 early Black Friday tech deals on Amazon, all at least 30% off
Black Friday Week officially starts on 19 November, but Amazon has already cut prices on projectors, earbuds, gaming kit and chargers, and some of these are the lowest we’ve seen.
Amazon has started the sale early, and it isn’t just old stock. The early deals include a 4K triple-laser projector, current-generation noise-cancelling earbuds and Wi-Fi 7 mesh at prices that would have sounded made up a year ago. We went through the whole early-deals page and only kept the ones that are 30% off or more. Here are the 30 that made the cut.
- Big-screen nights in
- Earbuds for every kind of day
- Speakers worth taking outside
- Level up the gaming setup
- Desk, bag and bedside table
- Stay connected, stay powered
Big-screen nights in
Amazon Ember 65″ Mini-LED Series
This is the biggest TV deal on the page. A 65-inch Mini-LED QLED with Dolby Vision IQ and a 144Hz game mode for £710 makes a lot of more expensive sets look overpriced. Fire TV is built in, and when it’s switched off the ambient mode shows artwork so the screen isn’t just a black rectangle on the wall.
£709.99 (was £1,149.99, 38% off), Amazon
soundcore NEBULA X1 4K Triple Laser Projector
This one is for people who want a home cinema, not a projector on a bedside table. Its triple-laser engine puts out 3,500 ANSI lumens and covers 110% of the Rec. 2020 colour space, so it holds up in a room that isn’t completely dark. It supports Dolby Vision and is ISF certified. It’s a serious amount of money, but £700 off is a serious saving.
£1,499.00 (was £2,199.00, 32% off), Amazon
XGIMI MoGo 4 with PowerBase Stand
The PowerBase stand doubles the battery to about five hours, which is enough for a double bill in the garden. It also tilts through 360 degrees, so you can project onto the ceiling and watch a film lying in bed, which is a much better use for a Sunday morning than it sounds.
£378.00 (was £559.00, 32% off), Amazon
NEBULA Anker Mars 3 Air
This is the one to take on holiday. It has a built-in battery, 400 ANSI lumens, a 150-inch maximum picture and two 8W speakers, so a gîte wall becomes a film screen without plugging anything in. It runs Google TV, so your streaming logins come with you.
£359.00 (was £549.00, 35% off), Amazon
TCL C1 Portable Projector
It projects native 1080p and runs full Google TV with a proper Netflix licence, which plenty of cheap projectors still don’t have. Point it at a bedroom wall, open an app and press play. No stick, no dongle, no fiddling about.
£179.99 (was £299.99, 40% off), Amazon
Aurzen Roku TV Projector
Aurzen bills it as the UK’s first Roku TV projector, so BBC iPlayer, ITVX and the other UK apps are all on the home screen from day one. At £130 it’s the cheapest way to get a big picture in the spare room, and Roku’s menus are simple enough that your parents could use it.
£129.97 (was £199.99, 35% off), Amazon
RayNeo GT Max AR/XR Glasses
Put them on and you get a virtual 267-inch, 120Hz MicroOLED screen floating in front of you, which makes a long-haul flight feel short. They’re a splurge and they look like sunglasses that mean business. Even so, nothing else on this list gives you a cinema-size screen in a glasses case.
£339.00 (was £499.00, 32% off), Amazon
Earbuds for every kind of day
Anker soundcore P30i
Adaptive noise cancelling and 45 hours of total playtime for under £23 is very hard to beat. The case also opens out into a phone stand, which comes in surprisingly handy on a train tray table.
£22.79 (was £49.99, 54% off), Amazon
Nothing Ear (3a)
These are the best-looking earbuds here, with Nothing’s see-through design and 45dB of hybrid ANC behind it. The 12mm drivers give noticeably more bass than you’d expect at £59, and six mics keep your calls clear on a windy street.
£59.00 (was £99.00, 40% off), Amazon
CMF by Nothing Buds Pro 2
The best part is the twist dial on the case. Turn it to change the volume without reaching for your phone, and you’ll wonder why every pair doesn’t have one. They also have 50dB of noise cancelling and spatial audio, which is a lot for £39.
£39.00 (was £59.00, 34% off), Amazon
Soundcore Liberty 5
Anker says the noise cancelling blocks human voices twice as well as before, and in an open-plan office you can tell. With Dolby Audio and six-mic AI call processing, these punch well above their sale price.
£59.00 (was £99.99, 41% off), Amazon
Soundcore Q30
A budget favourite for good reason. These over-ears last 50 hours, use two mics per side to cancel the low drone of planes and trains, and have multipoint so they switch between laptop and phone. At £43 we’d buy a pair just for travelling.
£42.73 (was £79.99, 47% off), Amazon
Soundcore Sport X20
The ear hooks both rotate and extend, so they stay in place through burpees, and the IP68 rating means sweat and a rainy run won’t hurt them. You get 48 hours of total playtime and noise cancelling for the gym’s playlist you didn’t choose.
£59.00 (was £89.00, 34% off), Amazon
Soundcore V20i Open-Ear
These sit outside your ears, so you still hear traffic on a run, and the adjustable hooks stay put when you’re moving fast. With 36 hours of playtime and an IP55 rating, rain and sweat aren’t a problem.
£24.99 (was £49.99, 50% off), Amazon
Soundcore Sleep A30
These are for anyone who shares a bed with a snorer. They pick up the snoring in real time and play masking sound over it, on top of noise cancelling, and they’re shaped to be comfortable if you sleep on your side. The 10-hour battery gets you through the night, and they could save a relationship.
£119.99 (was £199.99, 40% off), Amazon
Speakers worth taking outside
soundcore Boom 2
It puts out 80W through a dedicated subwoofer, so it’s loud enough for a garden party. It’s IPX7 waterproof and it floats, which matters more than you’d think at a pool party. Battery life is 24 hours, and the RGB lights are optional.
£75.99 (was £119.99, 37% off), Amazon
Soundcore 3
Its two drivers use pure titanium diaphragms, which keeps the high notes crisp instead of harsh when you turn it up. It’s IPX7 rated, lasts 24 hours, and PartyCast lets you link it with other Soundcore speakers when one isn’t enough.
£34.18 (was £59.99, 43% off), Amazon
Soundcore Select 4 Go
It’s about the size of a coaster, clips onto a bag, survives a dunk thanks to IP67, and plays for 20 hours. For £17 it makes an easy stocking filler, and you won’t mind when it comes back from the beach covered in sand.
£16.99 (was £24.99, 32% off), Amazon
How to spot a Black Friday deal that’s actually a deal
CHECK THE “WAS” PRICE, NOT JUST THE PERCENTAGE
Amazon shows either an RRP or a recent “Was” price, and an RRP can be inflated. A free price tracker will show you a product’s price history, and if it has sold at the “deal” price for months, the saving isn’t real.
EARLY DEALS AREN’T ALWAYS THE LOWEST
Most early prices stay put through Black Friday Week (19 to 30 November), and a few go lower. If something on your list is already 40% or more off, buy it now. Waiting for an extra £5 usually ends with the item selling out.
LAST YEAR’S MODEL IS OFTEN THE SMART BUY
Brands launch new earbuds every year, and the gap between generations is usually small. The model that’s just been replaced, at half price, is often better value than the new one at full price.
Level up the gaming setup
Sony INZONE H9 II Gaming Headset
Pro esports team Fnatic helped tune it, and you can hear it in the footsteps: 360 spatial sound tells you exactly where an enemy is reloading. You get noise cancelling, an AI noise-reduction mic and 30 hours of battery over 2.4GHz, Bluetooth or a cable.
£159.00 (RRP £299.00, 47% off), Amazon
Edifier G5 MAX Wireless Gaming Headset
The headline figure is 305 hours of battery, which in practice means you’ll forget where the charging cable is. THX 7.1.4 spatial audio picks out footsteps and gunfire clearly, and the white finish looks smarter on a desk than the usual black plastic.
£109.99 (was £159.99, 31% off), Amazon
RAPOO VT3PRO MAX Wireless Gaming Mouse
It has a PAW 3950 sensor, 30,000 DPI and 8KHz polling, the kind of specs you’d expect on a mouse costing four times as much. There are eight programmable buttons for your macros. At under £27 it’s the cheapest real upgrade on this list for anyone who games.
£26.84 (was £49.99, 46% off), Amazon
Desk, bag and bedside table
Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition
The 7-inch screen turns pages quickly, the front light adjusts itself as the evening gets darker, and it charges wirelessly on any Qi pad. It has 32GB of storage, no ads, and battery life measured in weeks. This is the best Kindle to buy if you read in bed.
£139.99 (was £229.99, 39% off), Amazon
Garmin Lily 2
At 35mm it looks like a small, pretty watch with a patterned face, and a tap brings up a bright touchscreen underneath. It tracks sleep, stress and workouts, and the battery lasts about 5 days. It’s a fitness tracker you’d happily wear to dinner.
£171.04 (was £249.99, 32% off), Amazon
UGREEN 10-in-1 Laptop Docking Station
One USB-C cable gives your laptop two 4K monitors at 60Hz, gigabit Ethernet and 100W of pass-through charging. At the end of the day you unplug a single cable and leave. It turns a laptop into a proper workstation for £30.
£29.95 (was £44.99, 33% off), Amazon
Anker 140W GaN Foldable Charger
It charges four devices at once, and its two fast USB-C ports have enough power for a 15-inch MacBook Air. The pins fold away, so it slips into a laptop sleeve, and you can leave the three separate chargers at home.
£54.99 (was £89.79, 39% off), Amazon
Anker 100W 3-Port Charger with Smart Display
A small screen shows how many watts are going to each device, which is satisfying and also handy for spotting a dodgy cable. Any of its USB-C ports can deliver the full 100W, so it doesn’t matter which one the laptop goes in.
£37.99 (was £59.89, 37% off), Amazon
UGREEN Nexode 100W 4-Port Charger
It takes a 16-inch MacBook Pro from zero to 42% in half an hour, and you still have three ports free for a phone, watch and earbuds. It’s not as compact as the Anker, but under £30 for 100W is a very good price.
£28.84 (was £49.99, 42% off), Amazon
Stay connected, stay powered
TP-Link Deco BE3600 Wi-Fi 7 Mesh (3-pack)
Wi-Fi 7 for under £200 for three units is new territory. It runs at up to 3.6Gbps across the house, and Multi-Link Operation sends data over more than one band at once, which keeps latency low for gaming and video calls. If your router is more than four years old, this is the upgrade to make this Black Friday.
£199.99 (was £289.99, 31% off), Amazon
Amazon eero 6+ Mesh Wi-Fi (3-pack)
If you don’t need Wi-Fi 7, the eero 6+ still covers up to 420 square metres and handles more than 75 devices at gigabit speeds. Setup in the app takes about ten minutes, and after that you can forget about it, which is exactly what you want from a router.
£179.99 (was £299.99, 40% off), Amazon
EcoFlow RIVER 2 Pro Portable Power Station
It holds 768Wh in a long-life LiFePO4 battery and can output up to 1,600W across 11 sockets, enough to run a projector, a laptop and a kettle on a campsite. It recharges from the mains in 70 minutes. It’s also reassuring to have at home when the power goes off in a winter storm.
£349.00 (was £499.00, 30% off), Amazon
Getting the most from your chargers
MATCH THE CABLE TO THE CHARGER
A 100W charger only gives 100W through a cable rated for it. Most cheap USB-C cables top out at 60W, so check the rating before blaming the plug.
ONE GaN CHARGER CAN REPLACE THREE
GaN chargers run cooler and are much smaller than the old bricks. One 100W to 140W unit can usually replace the laptop, phone and tablet chargers in your bag.
SPREAD THE LOAD
With several devices plugged in, multi-port chargers share their power between ports. Put the laptop on the main USB-C port and let the smaller devices share the rest.
