Today’s best deals: Amazon Fire HD tablets, Google Pixel 6 phones, and more
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It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best tech deals from around the web includes another round of discounts on Amazon's Fire HD tablets, with both the 10.1-inch Fire HD 10 and the 8-inch Fire HD 8 on sale for $100 and $50, respectively. While neither deal marks an all-time low-these two slates were available for $75 and $45 during Amazon's latest Prime Day sale, for instance-they're still a good ways below the usual street prices we've seen.
In general, the song remains the same with Amazon's tablet offerings: they can't touch any iPad when it comes to build quality, app support, or future-proofed performance, and they're all pretty aggressive about steering their users toward Amazon content and services. But if you can live with that and just need a tablet on the cheap, they still have their uses.
The Fire HD 10 in particular offers good value at this deal price, with a serviceable 1080p display and enough in the performance and battery life departments to make casual video watching, ebook reading, and web browsing not too frustrating. The Fire HD 8 is a drop-off across the board, but at $50, it's inexpensive enough to be justifiable if price is all that matters. Both models here come with lock-screen ads and 32GB of storage, though you can remove the former for an extra $15 and upgrade the latter with a microSD card if needed.