The best October Prime Day deals on Amazon Kindle, Fire tablets and more

Amazon Prime Big Deal Days is here, offering discounts on Amazon devices  during the 48-hour sale, exclusive to Prime members. You can also find deals on vacuums, Apple devices and TVs and more.

I frequently cover shopping events like Prime Day, Black Friday and Cyber Monday as a freelance writer for NBC Select, so I know how to find deals that are actually worth buying. I spent weeks combing through thousands of discounts to find the best October Prime Day Amazon device deals — each one I recommend below is highly rated, at least 20% off and at its lowest price in at least three months. I’ll frequently update this list throughout Prime Big Deal Days.

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Amazon Echo Buds (2023)

3.9-star average rating from 9,304 reviews on Amazon

Amazon’s Echo Buds were at their lowest price ever on the last Prime Big Deal Day, and are well worth a look this time around. These true wireless earbuds come with 20 hours of battery life, fast charging and Alexa voice controls.

Echo Show 8 (3rd Gen)

4.6-star average rating from 13,217 reviews on Amazon

The Echo Show 8 is a compact smart display with an 8-inch touchscreen and smart control hub, with Alexa integration and compatibility with Matter, Thread and Zigbee smart home standards. Its built-in 13-megapixel camera is adept at video calls, with an auto-framing feature to ensure the camera is always focusing on the right thing. 

Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro Tablet

4.6-star average rating from 3,399 reviews on Amazon

This Fire HD Kids Pro Tablet has kid-friendly content restrictions, a one-year subscription to Amazon Kids+ programming, a filtered web browser and a slim protective case for kids aged 6-12. It also has a 13-hour battery life and comes in three other vibrant colors.

Echo Show 5 (3rd Gen) with Blink Mini

4.5-star average rating from 34,510 reviews on Amazon

Amazon devices often work best in tandem with each other — and this bundle deal throws in both a Blink Mini smart camera and an Echo Show 5 smart display, which you can use to view your video feed elsewhere in the home, alongside native apps for Amazon Music, Spotify and Prime Video.

Amazon Fire HD 8 Tablet

4.4-star average rating from 17,289 reviews on Amazon

You can get huge savings on the Amazon Fire HD 8, a portable tablet with a 13-hour battery life, Full HD resolution, built-in Alexa and plenty of streaming apps and services (Netflix, Disney+, TikTok) through Amazon’s Fire platform. There’s 64GB of onboard storage for photos, apps and videos, too.

Amazon Fire HD 8 Kids Tablet

4.5-star average rating from 8,408 reviews on Amazon

This edition of the Amazon Fire HD 8 is best for those after a kid-friendly tablet, with ad-free content, parental controls for screen time or app access, and a shock-proof case that should survive being dropped or scuffed by children aged 3-7.

Amazon Fire TV Soundbar

4.2-star average rating from 3,131 reviews on Amazon

This stereo Amazon soundbar can offer a step up from basic built-in TV speakers, ramping up the volume and ensuring you can hear what’s going on in films, TV shows and more. There are few features and no Fire TV platform — you’ll need a Fire TV Stick for that — but as an entry-level soundbar, it’s worth picking up for this October Amazon Prime Day.

Echo Pop Kids Marvel’s Avengers with Echo Glow

4.8-star average rating from 25 reviews on Amazon

This Echo Pop Kids edition offers fun designs by Marvel or Disney, alongside age-appropriate content restrictions and parental controls for its smart home and audio call functionality. It’s designed for kids aged 3-12, and a purchase includes a six-month subscription to Amazon Kids+, with games, audiobooks and more.

All of my recommendations above are based on NBC Select’s previous coverage and reporting. I also included products the NBC Select staff tested, including Wellness Award, Travel Award, Pet Award, Bed & Bath Award and Giftable Tech Award winners. I ran each deal through price trackers like CamelCamelCamel to ensure products are at their lowest price in at least three months. All the products I recommend are highly rated with at least a 4.0-star average rating from hundreds of reviews.

I’m a reporter for NBC Select who has covered deals and sales on tablets, TVs, speakers and wearables for NBC, iMore, and TechRadar, where I previously worked as the Home Cinema Editor and tested countless televisions and accessories. To round up the best Prime Day sales on TVs, I found highly-rated products at their lowest price ever or their lowest price in three months.