43 Best Black Friday Tech Deals (2024)

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3 weeks ago

Well, hello there. You’re probably here because you’re hunting for Black Friday tech deals, saw WIRED, and thought: Wires are tech, right? Yes, you’re right! Think of me as your shopping tech support—I can’t tell you how to fix your router, but I can recommend one to buy.

Here you’ll find the best deals on WIRED-tested tech gadgets, wireless and wired. I don’t discriminate. That includes things like iPads, wireless headphones, smartphones, and even smart home gizmos. I’ve curated this list to focus on some of our favorite tech products, and ones with great discounts, though we’ll be adding more throughout the Cyber weekend. Don’t you just love that word? Happy hunting!

WIRED’s Black Friday 2024 Coverage

WIRED’s Gear team tests products year-round and handpicked these Black Friday deals. I’ve covered sale events like Prime Day and Black Friday for nearly a decade, as have many of my colleagues. We’ll update this guide regularly throughout Black Friday and Cyber Monday by adding fresh deals, correcting prices, and removing dead deals.

Best Tablet Deals

Read our Best Tablets guide for more recommendations.

Photograph: Apple; Getty Images

Everyone wants an iPad. It’s nicer to curl up with one in bed and fall asleep to a movie. It’s a larger screen for people who may have a harder time with small fonts on phones. And have you ever heard of iPad kids? They love these things! This is the entry-level iPad (7/10, WIRED Recommends) and this is an unusually good discount. It has a USB-C charging port, supports the first-gen Apple Pencil, and employs a modern design compared to the iPads that came before.

Contrary to popular belief, not all tablets are iPads. Not all iPads are tablets. Er, wait. Never mind. This is my top Android tablet recommendation for anyone who doesn’t want an iPad. Anyone who has always felt the distinct need to not have what everyone else has. You know who you are. Stupid iSheep. You can always get last year’s OnePlus Pad at an even lower price (and it’s just as great).

Best VR/AR Deals

Privacy, shrimacy. Cameras on glasses? Who cares. The Meta Wayfarers are the hot item of the moment for sensible people. What do these do? Well, you can listen to podcasts or music through the built-in speakers, or ask Meta’s AI what the things in front of you are. Whoa, meta. Just don’t try the translate feature.

This isn’t technically a Black Friday deal, but Meta is currently offering Batman: Arkham Shadow and three months of Meta Quest+, its game subscription program, through April 2025. If you’ve never tried a VR headset and you’re curious, this is one of the best and easiest ways to start playing loads of games to see if you like it. We also think the Quest 3S is one of the cheapest and lightest ways to get into gaming (it will still make you slightly nauseous if you’re not used to it, though.)—Adrienne So

Best E-Reader Deals

Read our Best E-Readers and Best Kindle guides for other picks.

The brand-new Paperwhite is thinner, has a bigger screen, and slimmer bezels. Battery life is longer too, but the best feature is the higher contrast ratio, allowing for super crisp text. What’s that? You want a color Kindle? Let’s not talk about that.

If you really want color on your e-reader, go with Kobo’s Libra Colour. (That’s assuming you’re ready to abandon whatever ebooks you had on your Kindle account.) This Kobo has page-turn buttons, stylus support (though you need to buy the stylus separately), and a decent color screen—just don’t expect super vibrant colors. These are the things Kindle customers have been asking for, but Kobo doesn’t hate you.

Best Smartwatch Deals

Check out our Best Smartwatch guide for more details.

This is the latest Apple Watch (8/10, WIRED Recommends), which got a “new design.” You can’t tell? Well, you just don’t get it, OK? Apple made the screen bigger and slimmed down the bezels. The whole watch is actually very thin; it’s quite nice. But you know. It still looks like the last Apple Watch.

Rumors abound that Google has canned development of the next Pixel Tablet (or maybe Pixel Tablet 3?). You know what they say, “Winners never quit, quitters never win.” Makes you wonder if there will be a Pixel Watch 4. I sure hope so, because I love these pretty round watches (8/10, WIRED Recommends). They’ll work with any Android phone.

Best Smart Ring and Fitness Tracker Deal

Check out our Best Smart Rings and Best Fitness Trackers guides for more.

I promise that if you wear the Ultrahuman Ring Air (7/10, WIRED Recommends), you won’t grab your throat and start blurting, “Gollum.” Unlike a certain smart ring, this one doesn’t require a subscription. It can track your health, from heart rate variability to sleep. Wicked, tricksy hobbitses.

You know what’s around the corner? The new year. And your new fitness goals! New year, new you, right? A Fitbit Charge 6 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) will definitely not be the thing that gets you on track, but at least it’ll give you an accurate picture of how long you’ve been stationary. Fine, I’ll go for a walk.

There are a few pretty great Fitbit deals going on right now, but if you have kids, I suggest going for the Fitbit Ace LTE. Unlike the Apple Watch, it’s not phone-specific, so your kid can use it even if you and your spouse are an Android/iPhone family (if so, why?). It has a ton of fun, movement-based games that are an incentive for your kid to actually remember to charge your watch and keep it on. I understand that feelings are mixed on giving kids’ smart devices, but it helps us all keep track of each other as my kids walk around the neighborhood and it stops me from having to text everyone else’s parents all the time.—Adrienne So

Best Phone Deals

Read our Best Android Phones guide for more.

Sorry, no iPhone deals here. I have a separate Black Friday phone deals roundup that has some of those in there, but even those are kind of lame because Apple DoEsn’t dO dEaLs and America loves its carriers. Instead, you can get a Pixel! This year’s Google phones (9/10, WIRED Recommends) have some primo hardware, though you have to take a shot every time you accidentally trigger Google Assistant. Or is it Gemini, now? It’s always two of everything.

Next week, you’ll be hearing about the guy Samsung fired for accidentally typing in the wrong sale price during Black Friday. This surely has to be a mistake, right? You can get a folding Samsung phone (7/10, WIRED Recommends) for less than an iPhone 16 Pro Max. Two screens for the price of one, baby.

Best MagSafe Deals

Read our Best MagSafe Accessories guide for more picks.

You come home from a long hard day and then you have to plug in your dang AirPods, your dang iPhone, and your dang Apple Watch. This is not what The Jetsons promised me. Or just use this Belkin 3-in-1 charger. No fussing with cables, just magnets.

Qi2 Android phones were supposed to be a thing in 2025, but apparently, no one got the memo. Surely in 2025, every major Android phone will have the same MagSafe-like Qi2 charging system as iPhones, right? Right?? I don’t know, but this Nomad charger is amazingly cheap and future-proof. It’ll work with iPhones right now, and Android phones of the future (unless you have a MagSafe case, then it’ll work now).

Best Hub and Dock Deals

Read our Best Hubs and Best Laptop Docking Stations guides for other options.

You plug the USB-C end into your laptop and boom, you now have way more ports, ruining that clean, simple aesthetic of your computer. You can’t have everything. This is our top pick in our Best Hubs guide (not husbands). It adds five USB-C ports, an HDMI, an Ethernet, and an SD card slot.

If you have a laptop workstation—especially with two monitors—a docking station is a must-have. Just plug one cable in and everything else can connect in one fell swoop. This Plugable model has every port most people need and connects via USB-C. They could have made it look nicer, but remember what I said before? You can’t have everything.

Best Camera Deals

Check out our Best Compact Cameras and Best Mirrorless Cameras guides for other picks. We have more Black Friday camera deals here.

This is our top mirrorless camera recommendation and a heck of a deal on a full-frame 33-megapixel Sony camera (9/10, WIRED Recommends). It’s light enough to carry all day and produces great low-light images. You can read more in our guide.

I have been a lifelong Nikon person because my dad had a Nikon and, yep, that’s the only reason why. If I had the funds, I would buy the Nikon Zf (8/10, WIRED Recommends) because it looks so darn cute and looks like it’s from the 1980s and has knobs and dials! We are a superficial species.

Best Drone and Action Camera Deals

We have the Best Drones and Best Action Cameras guides ready for your perusal.

This is not the latest DJI drone. That would be the Air 3S. The S-variant has a lot of S-sounding features: a bigger sensor, a built-in SSD, and front-facing lidar sensors. Did you get all those Ses? But that one is still quite expensive, and the older version (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is not. If you don’t mind last year’s tech and like saving money, go for it! Hopefully, you know how to fly a drone because that’d be a pretty expensive crash.

Turns out, the GoPro isn’t the best action camera anymore. We just replaced it with the DJI Osmo Action 5. Maybe that’s why it’s on sale. Real talk, we do still like this GoPro (7/10, WIRED Recommends), especially when you use it with the new interchangeable lens system. There are just some things its competitors do a little bit better.

Best Headphone Deals

Read our Best Wireless Headphones guide for more details, and we’ve also rounded up more headphone deals here.

Apple has dominated the world with the AirPods Pro (8/10, WIRED Recommends), and the latest software update adds hearing aid features that will only reinforce its dominance. This is also one of the lowest prices we have ever seen. Geez, Apple, leave some for the rest of your competitors.

The world was meant to be silenced. Er, something like that. These are our favorite noise-canceling headphones (9/10, WIRED Recommends)—Bose knows a thing or two about that. The ear cushions are plush, they have great sound, and there’s decent battery life.

Best Laptop Deals

Check out our Best Laptops and Best MacBooks guide. We have more laptop deals here.

This is a brand-new MacBook Pro that Apple just released. Do you need a MacBook Pro? Probably not, but wait! This uses the “base” level chipset (compared to the MacBook Pro with the M4 Pro and M4 Max chips). The performance is better than what you’ll get on a current MacBook Air, but not dramatically so. What’s actually “Pro” here is the fact that you get extra ports, such as three USB-C, an HDMI, and an SD card slot. Congratulations! You now have features that other laptops had 10 years ago!

Can your MacBook do this? (Don’t try it, please.) The Yoga 9i is the latest incarnation of Lenovo’s flippy-screen laptop (8/10, WIRED Recommends), and it sports an excellent screen and speaker system. All of that sucks up the battery life quickly, but they keyboard is nice, and like the MacBook Pro, there are three USB-C ports.

Best Portable Battery Deals

Take a look at our Best Portable Chargers and Best Portable Power Stations for more charging options.

This is a terrible name for a company, but it makes great portable chargers that look unique. Hooray, transparent tech! It’s not all for show though. This Toblerone-shaped battery can dish out 170 watts (your MacBook Pro only needs around 100 watts), meaning you can practically top up anything fairly quickly. It has a big 24,000-mAh capacity too.

You shouldn’t leave portable chargers in your car, especially if you’re in an extreme climate, but the Noco Boost Plus is built different. It’s IP65-rated and can withstand temperatures from -4 to 122 degrees Fahrenheit. Yes, it can charge your phone, but the real draw is its ability to jumpstart your car with the jump leads. It also has a built-in flashlight so you can distinguish red from black.

Best Cable and Charger Deals

Check out our Best USB-C Cables guide.

Sometimes, your shopping needs are as simple as needing a USB-C cable. Well, USB-C cables are notoriously tricky because they don’t all support the same standards and have the same features. Something like this Anker cable can do it all though—it can carry 240 watts and supports 20 Gbps data transfer speeds. Plus the cable, which is a bit short, is 40 percent corn and sugarcane. Don’t eat it.

I have had this thing on my desk for more than a year and it’s been flawless. Four USB-C ports, each divvying up 165 watts—it’s plenty of power, and this is a pretty great price.

Best Keyboard and Mouse Deals

Read our Best Keyboards and Best Gaming Mouse guides for other picks.

Bluetooth is so 2020. All my peripherals use a 2.5-GHz dongle, which is faster and more reliable. I used the MX Mini for several months last year and loved it. It’s a great, compact mechanical keyboard, for newcomers to the hobby and old pros. The keys are backlit, just not that tacky RGB.

Just cause something was built for competitive gaming doesn’t mean you have to be a competitive gamer to use it. You can compete in … spreadsheets! Or who can end the Zoom meeting the fastest. OK but really, this is a good mouse that pairs via a 2.5-GHz dongle for little to no latency. You can program the side buttons, and it’s just plain comfy.

Best Desktop PC Deals

Read our Best AIO Computers guide for more.

This is Apple’s latest iMac (9/10, WIRED Recommends). It quickly took the top spot in our Best All-in-One Computers guide, which either means the bar is low or the iMac is very, very good. (I think it’s a bit of both.) It sports the latest M4 chip and has an upgraded webcam.

Want to build a PC? Or is the spirit willing but the flesh weak? Get a pre-built gaming PC instead! You will obviously spend less money building your own, but a pre-built PC saves you time spent in PCPartPicker trying to figure out the right combination of components and the time spent building (and eventually diagnosing why your PC isn’t turning on). We tested and like the MG-1 (9/10, WIRED Recommends), but just make sure you look at the components to see what you’re getting. The one we’ve linked to has the RTX 4070 GPU and a Ryzen 7 9800X3D, but Maingear has multiple variations if you want more or less power.

Best Router Deals

We’ve got more options in our Best Routers and Best Mesh Routers guides.

This three-pack is suitable for folks with larger homes (ooh, look at you). The Eero is synonymous with “set it and forget it,” and the Pro 6E model (7/10, WIRED Recommends) adds the 6-GHz band which means it’s future-proof for a good while.

If you have a smaller space (one of us!) then a standard router is all you need. This is our top pick in our Best Routers guide. There are ample Ethernet ports to connect a few devices, and it’s very simple to set up.

Best Home Office Deals

I have the very difficult job of reviewing standing desks and office chairs. It’s the setup that’s actually difficult, the testing is fairly easy (just … sit and stand). Well, I love standing and sitting in front of Branch’s new Four Leg Standing Desk. It’s not a pretty name, but it does in fact have four legs! How about that? Most standing desks have two legs, but this one has four motors in each telescoping legs, and it certainly looks prettier.

I will be writing an ode to the BenQ ScreenBar Pro very soon. It is truly a must-have for anyone who works from home. Dangle it on top of your monitor and light up your workspace! No more typing in the dark. The Pro version is the latest iteration, and it adds a motion sensor, so the light turns off automatically when you finally decide to peel your eyeballs off the screen.

Best Monitor Deals

I just got this monitor to test and I did not realize what I was missing out on. My colleague Simon raved about an older version, but this quantum-dot OLED display sports a fantastic 4K resolution in a smaller 32-inch size. If you’re a big gamer or you watch a lot of movies and shows at your desk, this monitor is still expensive on sale, but it’s glorious. You can also buy the older version for a little less.

I am that guy. I bring the extra monitor with me wherever I go. I’ve been working from home for so long that I no longer know how to function without two screens. If you would like to be like me, I really like Plugable’s simple USB-C portable monitor. It comes with a case that props the whole thing up and offers wide compatibility. It’ll be featured in an upcoming portable monitors guide.

Best Speaker Deal

Read our Best Computer Speakers guide for other options.

Last night, I blasted the One Piece Wano soundtrack as I started my Black Friday shift. I wasn’t using these Audioengine speakers, I just thought you should know I’m a man of culture. My colleague Simon Hill has used these speakers, and likes them so much that they’re our top pick in our Best Computer Speakers guide. They have lots of connectivity options, wired or Bluetooth.

Best Smart Home Deals

It took Google roughly the same length of time as King Tut’s reign to build the 4th-gen Nest Learning Thermostat (9/10, WIRED Recommends). Just kidding. You don’t need to debut a smart thermostat every year, but this was the year Google finally decided to unveil the successor, and it sure is purty. King Tut would like the gold finish.

I still carry my keys with me everywhere out of precaution, but this fingerprint sensor-enabled smart lock is game-changing. Keys suck! Use a code or your fingers to get into your house. Ultraloq’s smart lock will be featured in an upcoming smart locks guide (it’s great), and this one takes eight AA batteries that can last more than four months. If you are in an Apple household, consider the HomeKit version.

Best Security Camera Deals

Read our Best Outdoor Security Cameras and Indoor Security Cameras guides.

The Arlo Pro 5S is the same as the Arlo Pro 5 that we reviewed here (9/10, WIRED Recommends). It’s just a regional thing. With this outdoor camera, you get stunning picture quality to catch those burglars in vivid color night vision and 2K resolution. You’ll want to subscribe to Arlo’s service to get the most out of it, but it’s well worth it.

I use the Nest Cam in my living room and set it so that it automatically turns on when both my wife and I leave the house. That way, we get automatic alerts when our dog is roaming about. (He usually just stares out the window.) It’s been reliable over the last few years, though make sure your internet connection is strong.

Best Hearing Aid Deal

Hearing aids are expensive. Thankfully, the over-the-counter market has introduced significantly cheaper options, and while these Jabras are still pricey, they’re cheap next to prescription hearing aids. The good news, then, is that the Enhance Select 300 (9/10, WIRED Recommends) are our top pick for people with moderate hearing loss. As my colleague Chris Null says, “The Enhance Select 300’s best feature are not what it includes, but what it lacks: hiss.”

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