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Best Prime Day Echo device deals to shop in October 2024

Amazon is hosting another Prime Day sales event on Tuesday and Wednesday, called Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. This sales event is a great opportunity to check items off your holiday shopping list and save some major dough on smart home devices.

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Like other Amazon-branded devices, Echo speakers, smart displays, and other smart home peripherals see their biggest discounts of the year during Prime Day in July and October. These discounts are often bigger than the ones you’d find during both Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Read below for the best deals on Amazon Echo devices we’ve found so far.

Our favorite Amazon October Prime Day Echo device deals

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FAQs

When is Amazon’s October Prime Day 2024? 

Amazon is hosting its October sales event, Prime Big Deal Days, for two days on Oct. 8 and 9.

Are Amazon Echo devices really cheaper on Prime Day? 

Yes, Echo and other Amazon devices get the biggest markdowns during Prime Day sales events. As a smart home reviewer who always looks for great deals, I’ve purchased a few Echo devices during Prime Day for this very reason.

Echo Pop vs. Echo Dot: Which is the best Prime Day deal?

Amazon’s most compact Echo speakers are on sale for $23 or less a piece, but how do you know which one is better for you? The Echo Pop, currently priced at $18, has a front-facing speaker that projects audio in front of the device, so it can be placed on a corner or against the wall. The Echo Dot, available for $23, is a round speaker that projects audio in all directions, has less audio degradation when the volume goes up, and has an action button to wake Alexa, unlike the Echo Pop.

The Echo Pop is also unreliably responsive when you try to call on it with the wake word, especially when the volume is up high, making the lack of an action button more evident.

If I had to choose between the $18 Echo Pop and the $23 Echo Dot, I’d choose the latter.

How did we choose these October Prime Day deals?

ZDNET cares greatly about curating the best deals for our readers, ensuring we only feature the deals worth your hard-earned money. We combine our experience testing different smart home products and looking for deals to give you the best offerings currently available so you can be sure that a deal featured on ZDNET is a good one.

What are the best October Prime Day 2024 deals?

ZDNET’s experts are searching through Prime Day sales to find the best discounts by category. These are the best deals so far:

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