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You might have just picked up your Google Home Speaker and want to expand your smart home setup. Well, here are a few deals on smart home hardware we recommend for this Amazon Prime Day week.

Continued Galaxy Z Fold 8 leaks are revealing more and more about Samsung’s upcoming foldable series, this time including some pre-order perks, the on-the-shelf release date, and some initial impressions from someone who actually held the device.

Following earlier teasers, the Nothing Phone (4b) has officially been revealed with a design that combines elements from Nothing Phone (4a) and Nothing Phone (4a) Pro, but it’s not coming to the US at all.

Samsung has announced the Galaxy A27, its latest budget phone that will sell for $349 and offer up to six years of Android OS updates.

Update 6/25: Roborock has now dropped the prices significantly on several models below to new all-time lows.

Alongside Amazon’s Prime Day, Roborock is offering major discounts on its robot vacuum + mop systems, including some of the lowest prices we’ve ever seen on select models.

The Motorola MA1 was the first wireless Android Auto adapter with Google’s stamp of approval and its had a sequel in the works for a while in the Motorola MA2, but the release date has been pushed way back to November of this year.

I’m a Nest Cam user every single day, and I mostly enjoy the product. But “Familar Faces” has been a sticking point for me as, frankly, it just doesn’t work very well. Finally, though, Google says it has a plan to fix “Familiar Faces” on Nest Cam, and I really hope it works.

There’s no one not frustrated by the cost of YouTube TV and services like it, but prices keep on going up. In a small victory, though, YouTube TV subscribers that sued Disney over its role in driving up the cost of streaming have won in court, with Disney settling for $50 million.

It just won’t change your bill.

Google today announced that it will open up the Play Store to external payments starting on June 30 in the US, UK, and Europe.

Rolling out now, the Instagram app has added support for watching Reels on your TV using Google Cast.

While some tech categories have spent the better part of this decade feeling a little stagnant, televisions have kept evolving at a pretty steady clip. Sure, some gimmicks didn’t catch on — pour one out for your 3D movie-loving friends — and the advancement to 4K feels like a lifetime ago, but the underlying display technology has only gotten better, brighter, and more vivid, and that’s exactly what Sony’s aiming for with its new Google TV-powered True RGB televisions.

The simplicity of the Fitbit Air encourages some neat ideas for how to use it, including pairing it with a traditional watch. Some Fitbit Air buyers are taking that idea and literally cutting holes in their watch bands to house the tracker, but there’s probably a better way.

One of the best values in earbuds is the Nothing Ear (a) and, for Prime Day, a pair is down to just $53, and that might be the single best offer on earbuds during Amazon’s sales holiday.

Gemini in Chrome now lets you focus a prompt with a new “Select from screen” tool, while developers can tap into Gemini 3.5 Flash computer use capabilities.

Just because something has been around for a while doesn’t mean it’s bad or not worth buying. I’ve bought a few products over the years, and here are a few older tech items I think are well worth a look.

No one really enjoys Prime Day anymore. The days of finding a needle-in-a-haystack deal are long over, and now it’s more about whether you have the patience to wait until Amazon applies minor discounts to the stuff you really want.

To that end, I usually use the month of June to store things in the “Save it for later” section of my Amazon cart for items that have caught my eye throughout the year but haven’t been cheap enough yet to justify ordering.

Over the years, I’ve accumulated some products that I use every day, that have withstood travel, kids, and time’s daily abuses. Some of them are tech-related, or tech-adjacent, and others are just nice things that I really enjoy.

GM says that its Google built-in vehicles are picking up support for over 200 more Android Automotive apps, including the ability to use apps on the screens in the backseat.

Amazon’s early Prime Day deals are in full swing, and Narwal is making some of its biggest discounts available across its full lineup. The highlight is the Narwal Flow 2, the company’s 2026 flagship, now at its lowest price ever. 

Google Play has just launched a “Mega Game Sale” that takes a handful of popular Android games and slashes their prices down to a mere $0.10 – just a dime.