This year’s Amazon Prime Day device deals are among the very best Amazon Prime Day deals site-wide, with savings to be had across Echo Dots, Amazon Kindles, Fire TVs and TV Sticks and Ring Video Doorbells. If you’re always on the lookout for ways to make your life easier (and your home swankier), so scroll for the 101.
She can play you the Barbie soundtrack while you’re getting ready for work, tell you the weather without you needing to lift your blackout blinds and call your sister to discuss the Better Than Revenge lyric change on Taylor’s Version of Speak Now. She can set alarms, read you the news and organise repeat orders of your favourite vitamin C serum. She’s a superwoman. She can do ~everything~. I am, of course, talking about Alexa.
Making “your life easier, more meaningful, and more fun by letting you voice control your world,” she’s the star of the Amazon Devices show. Sometime circa 2020, an OG Echo Dot was my first Amazon device purchase, and in a quest to elevate my rented flat to new heights (and keep myself motivated with on-repeat episodes of Grace Beverley’s Working Hard, Hardly Working), I’ve been obsessed ever since.
Of course, there are two things to note with Amazon devices. One: there’s forever a new model to get to grips with, and two: they don’t come cheap. While I can’t really help you with the whole lifespan issue, I can help you with the latter. The cost part. Because today, in celebration of Amazon’s highly-anticipated flagship sale, there are tonnes of Amazon Prime Day device deals doing the rounds so that you can welcome Alexa into your home with open arms. And I’m more excited by them than I am those killer beauty deals? Help?
Best Amazon Prime Day device deal, according to GLAMOUR editors: 60% off Amazon Echo Pop
Cute and compact (and available in an adorable lilac hue), the brand new Echo Pop is a compact bluetooth speaker, with Alexa, with sounds quality that works well in bedrooms, kitchens and other small spaces.
You can ask Alexa to play podcasts, audiobooks and music (through Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Music), and despite its small size, the speaker is still compatible with other home devices like smart plugs and lights.
She can answer calls, set timers, read you the news… all the usuals, and since the fabric it’s coated in is made from 100% post-consumer recycled yarn (and the aluminium is made from 80% recycled aluminium), she boasts sustainability credentials, too.
One five-star shopper wrote: “I bought this to replace one of the original echo dots. I can’t believe how infinitely better the sound is on this. Music sounds AMAZING!! I have an echo show 8inch in my living room and this is at least as good. Possibly better. The depth of sound is so good. Delighted.” Want in? There’s no better time than when it’s reduced from £44.99 to less than £20. Whew.