Early Black Friday Deals on Amazon Devices, Even Kindles (2024)

black Friday is astir the corner, but respective WIRED-approved Amazon devices are already connected sale, from Kindle e-readers to Fire tablets. If your vacation acquisition database includes 1 of those oregon possibly adjacent a Fire TV Stick, you tin commencement buying (and saving) early. Many of these products are brand-new, similar the Kindle Paperwhite (12th Gen) oregon the Fire HD 8, and it's improbable you'll spot adjacent steeper discounts during the large merchantability event, though don't wholly regularisation it out.

WIRED Featured Deals

• Our caller favourite Kindle: Kindle Paperwhite (2024, 12th Gen) for $130 ($30 off)
• A almighty Fire tablet: Amazon Fire Max 11 for $140 ($90 off)
• A large streaming stick: Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K Max for $33 ($27 off)
• A kid-friendly e-reader: Kindle Paperwhite Kids (2024, 12th Gen) for $140 ($40 off)

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Kindle Deals

The 12th-gen Paperwhite (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is our favorite Kindle (it was besides precise new, announced successful October). It has each the important features that marque for a large speechmaking acquisition including a ample show with precocious resolution, creaseless performance, lukewarm lighting, and an IPX8 water-resistance rating. The latest mentation has the highest opposition ratio of immoderate Kindle (for sharper substance and images) and up to 3 months of artillery life. It's the thinnest it's ever been too. The Signature Edition is besides connected merchantability for $155 ($45 off), which comes with auto-adjust brightness, treble the retention (32 gigs), and wireless charging support.

The basal Kindle is an fantabulous prime for a compact and affordable e-reader. The latest 2024 exemplary doesn't connection galore caller features compared to the 2022 version, but it has a higher opposition ratio, a 25 percent brighter beforehand light, and a faster page-turn rate. As the smallest Kindle, it's ace comfy to clasp one-handed and question with if you're the benignant who reads connected the spell often. For a amusive popular of color, I suggest snagging the Matcha color. For nether $100, you can't spell incorrect with this one.

If you're raising a bookworm, the kid-friendly Kindle makes for a fantastic acquisition this vacation season. Although it's much expensive, we similar the Paperwhite Kids due to the fact that it has a larger show (which is amended for speechmaking graphic novels) and it's waterproof truthful you don't person to interest astir those accidental spills. The basal Kindle Kids is besides on merchantability for $95 ($35 off) which is smaller, much compact, and comes with amusive covers to take from. Both models besides see six months of Amazon Kids+, a subscription work for age-appropriate books, and a two-year warranty.

Fire Tablet Deals

The Fire Max 11 (5/10, WIRED Review) is Amazon's astir powerful tablet. But its precocious price, particularly paired with the Productivity Bundle, enactment america off. Now that its terms is good beneath $200, it's a overmuch amended value. Like each Fire tablets, it's perfect if you're each successful connected Amazon's contented and services. It packs bully performance, a agleam and crisp screen, coagulated speakers, and an all-metal build, positive the 1080p cameras are nicer than what you'll find connected the remainder of Amazon's tablets.

This Fire tablet launched precocious past twelvemonth but it's inactive the champion enactment successful the lineup, particularly astatine this merchantability price. It comes with a speedy octa-core processor, a ample surface Full HD (1080p) screen, and 3 gigabytes of RAM for smoother show erstwhile browsing the web with respective tabs open. It supports Show Mode, which turns the tablet into an Echo Show astute display if you acceptable it connected a stand. You'll person the prime betwixt 32 GB oregon 64 GB configurations, with a microSD paper slot that tin adhd up to 1 TB of retention connected some models. If you privation to usage the tablet to get enactment done, you tin besides bargain the Keyboard Case bundle for $100 ($90 off).

The 2024 Fire HD 8 tablet lone comes with a fewer improvements. Amazon accrued the RAM from 3 GB (up from 2 GB), which was apt added for smoother show erstwhile utilizing the company's new AI features. The rear camera has been upgraded to 5 megapixels (up from 2 MP). Aside from that, it has the aforesaid design, size, and 13-hour artillery beingness (we deed astir 11 hours successful our testing) arsenic its predecessor. You'll besides get 32 GB oregon 64GB retention options with the quality to grow it up to 1 TB with a microSD card. It's a amended enactment if you privation each the features that travel with the HD 10 but successful a smaller size. The show isn't arsenic nice, but the tablet is much travel-friendly.

This is the best kids' tablet for younger children. It sports each the aforesaid features arsenic Amazon's modular Fire tablets, but you'll besides get a rugged lawsuit and a two-year worry-free guarantee. Amazon volition regenerate it for escaped if your kids accidentally interruption it. It besides comes with a escaped twelvemonth of Amazon Kids+, which gives you entree to kid-friendly movies, books, apps, and games. You tin negociate the parental controls connected the instrumentality arsenic well.

Fire TV Stick Deals

If you chiefly ticker Amazon Prime shows and movies, the second-generation Fire Stick is our apical recommendation. You tin inactive entree large streaming apps similar Netflix and Max, but a Fire TV Stick is tailored to Amazon Prime content. As with the past version, Alexa is built into the remote, there's an “Ambient Experience” diagnostic that displays and cycles done quality oregon creation scenes erstwhile you're not utilizing it, and you'll person entree to picture-in-picture mode for controlling astute location devices oregon pulling up information camera feeds. Amazon doubled the retention to 16 gigabytes successful this exemplary and added enactment for Wi-Fi 6E, future-proofing it a bit.