Amazon Prime Day 2025: The Deals That The Engadget Team Spent Our Hard-earned Money On

Amazon's Prime Day is successful afloat swing, and now that 2 afloat days person passed, immoderate of america person gotten past our determination paralysis and checked retired our online shopping carts. It's nary astonishment that nan Engadget squad consists of group who are fans of tech (and non-tech) products, and we besides emotion a bully deal. As we've put together roundups and news stories astir nan best things to bargain this week, we've besides been tempted by nan savings. Here's a database of what respective of our squad members bought, not only to stock our lives pinch you but to besides show you immoderate of nan deals we deemed bully capable to walk our ain money on.

(Ed. note: Igor Bonifacic saved a whopping $2 connected this guitar tuner, but it was worthy it to him. I'll fto him explain.)

In Canada, nan D'Addario tuner I ended up buying is usually a small much costly astatine $20 CAD, but I figured location was a chance it would spell connected waste for Prime Day. So I group up a Camelcamelcamel alert, and connected nan greeting of July 8 I sewage an email from nan website saying it was… $2 off. Not nan top discount, but hey, successful specified an costly hobby, each dollar counts, right?

This past spring, I picked up nan guitar for nan first clip successful astir 15 years. How it happened doesn't matter. What does matter is that now I play everyday, and I've been asking myself why did I ever extremity successful nan first place. I consciousness much creative, my eyes consciousness healthier from little surface clip and I'm amended now than I ever was arsenic a teenager.

As I've gotten backmost into nan hobby, I've slow been buying each nan small accessories that tin make it easier to support your guitar. With Prime Day astir nan corner, I group my sights connected a headstock tuner. These small gadgets weren't astir erstwhile I first started learning nan instrument, but fto maine show you they're great.

Like nan sanction suggests, you connect 1 to nan headstock of your guitar. It past allows you to tune nan instrumentality by measuring nan vibrations produced by nan strings. While you could conscionable arsenic easy usage an app for illustration GuitarTuna to do nan same, clip-on tuners aren't affected by ambient noise, making nan full tuning process accelerated and easy. Best of all, they're cheap. In nan US, you tin walk arsenic small arsenic $15 to bargain nan model I purchased for Prime Day. — Igor Bonifacic, elder reporter

Without moreover trying, I've go a devotee of Apple's Continuity Camera complete nan past fewer years. I deliberation pinch my laptop and show setup, it's conscionable ever made much consciousness to usage my iPhone arsenic a camera alternatively than buying immoderate benignant of USB-C docking position aliases giving up different larboard connected my computer. Unfortunately, I besides find having my telephone wrong arm's scope while I'm penning to beryllium beautiful distracting. Taking advantage of a Prime Day woody connected a dedicated webcam this twelvemonth is my solution.

I purchased an off-white Logitech Brio 500, which usually costs $130, but is $50 disconnected for Prime Day done Amazon aliases Logitech. It's a benignant of a long, tube-shaped 1080p webcam, truthful not nan sleekest aliases champion action retired there, but it has nan basics I need, for illustration a manual shutter and auto-framing, and critically, it matches my Logitech mouse. If, for illustration me, you can't guidelines nan thought of paying complete $100 for a webcam, I deliberation it's a beautiful appealing action astatine $80. — Ian Carlos Campbell, contributing writer

I precocious discovered that arsenic each my cogwheel transitioned to USB-C, I nary longer had immoderate compatible thumb drives. Rather than bargain an adapter dongle that I would inevitably lose, I figured it would beryllium smart to person a caller thumb thrust that could grip some USB-C and USB-3. The discount connected nan SanDisk drive I bought wasn't huge, but Prime Day seemed for illustration a bully clip to prevention a fewer bucks connected a applicable purchase. — Anna Washenko, contributing reporter

I made a very short, focused database of 3 things to bargain connected Prime Day — a Nori Press, a stepping pad and nan Ms. Rachel Tonie toy for nan kids successful my life. But erstwhile I was looking done our roundup of nan champion deals this week, nan discounted entry-level iPad caught my eye.

My dada had been asking maine many times for weeks astir an iPad for watching videos and movies while him and my mom were traveling, and I wasn't capable to springiness them an reply arsenic I was weighing a batch of concerns. What is nan champion operating strategy for them? Do they request thing released recently, aliases could they prevention immoderate money connected an older model?

Seeing this current-generation iPad connected waste prompted maine to conscionable bargain it for them. It simplifies things arsenic my dada uses an iPhone and is acquainted pinch iPadOS, and apps for illustration YouTube and Netflix would fulfill their desires to download videos to watch offline. Saving $70 connected what is simply a very coagulated instrumentality felt for illustration a awesome deal, but much importantly it earned maine points pinch my family. — Cherlynn Low, managing editor

What we're still considering

As Prime Day goes connected till nan extremity of nan week, galore connected nan Engadget squad are still weighing their decisions. Executive editor John Falcone, for example, hasn't bought Anker's UFO 3-device charger, but says he wishes he did. I'll update this station if he does, because he will prevention almost 30 percent connected it.

Not each our purchases person been done Amazon, either. Editor-in-chief Aaron Souppouris is reasoning astir buying "a weird camera for excessively overmuch money not connected Amazon." It's a full-spectrum conversion camera, and if and erstwhile he does make that purchase, we will beryllium judge to shame him here.

Finally, elder newsman Billy Steele has made arguably nan champion shopping determination each week, connected aliases off Amazon. He bought "three Happy Meals trying to get nan cool toys. I sewage 3 of nan aforesaid toy. :("