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Some of the best Amazon Fire TVs are seeing big Prime Day discounts — even at Best Buy
Few 65-inch models offer the same value as the Insignia F50 Fire TV, and while Amazon's sold out, Best Buy still has it in stock and discounted
Unsurprisingly, Fire TVs are mostly entry-level models that deliver good quality at low prices. It's no surprise that Amazon has periodic sales on its current lineups, deals that get more frequent during events like Prime Early Access. Somewhat unexpectedly, Best Buy is offering better deals than Amazon on a couple of the best Fire TV televisions. For example, the Insignia F50 Fire TV outperforms Amazon's Omni series TVs in terms of color accuracy, consistency, overall volume, and input latency.
Amazon discounts 50" 4K Insignia Fire TV Edition to all-time low of $250 ($100 off)
A 43" 1080p Toshiba Fire TV Edition is $180 if you're looking to spend a little less
Amazon has some "Prime Exclusive" deals on two of its Fire TV Edition-branded televisions: one a 50" 4K unit from Insignia, and the other a 43" 1080p one from Toshiba. Both are discounted by $100, which means sales prices of 9.99 for the Insignia and 9.99 for the Toshiba.These TVs were both released in 2020. The Insignia is equipped with a 50" 4K display, HDR capability, DTS Studio Sound, and Fire TV functionality built in. Meanwhile, for $70 less, the Toshiba has a 43" 1080p display, DTS TruSurround, and Fire TV built-in. I'd argue that the Insignia is the much better deal here, but both the Insignia's $249.99 and the Toshiba's $179.99 represent all-time low prices.
Insignia 50" 4K Fire TV Edition down to its lowest price of $270 ($30 off)
Available at Amazon and Best Buy
If you're looking to fill up some space with a new 50-inch TV but don't want to pay full-price for one, we've got solace for you: point one, Insignia's 4K Fire TV Edition panel wasn't that expensive to begin with, and; point two, it's on sale right now for 10% off.This particular TV actually debuted a couple months ago as part of a new lineup of Insignia and Toshiba Fire TV Edition sets back in June. This 50-incher in particular is HDR-capable, a 5,000:1 contrast ratio, and the carousel of content provisions that is Fire OS for TVs with an Alexa voice remote. It retailed originally for $350 (with sporadic discounted periods of $300 thrown here and there).
Insignia's brand new 4K Fire TVs are already receiving major discounts (up to $100 off)
43", 50", and 55" options are all on sale
When it comes to home entertainment, there are plenty of options to choose from. Google is working on a new TV dongle, but who knows when that'll be released. If you're itching to upgrade your living room setup right now, Amazon's Fire TVs are solid choices, especially if you're a Prime subscriber invested in the Alexa-enabled ecosystem. Insignia's newest 4K Fire TV models were released last month, but now they're already getting some major discounts.It's pretty cool to see prices dropping so quickly and significantly on such new devices. All three models are on sale at Best Buy, and Amazon also has a couple deals.
Amazon, through Insignia and Toshiba, is iterating on its entry-level 4K Fire TV Editions with new 43", 50", and 55" models for 2020. Some are available for purchase right now between the U.S. and Canada with stark differences in starting prices.All models run on the MediaTek T31 chipset with a multi-core GPU paired with 2GB of DDR3 RAM, seemingly enough for interfacing and streaming in 4K at 60fps. They come with an Alexa voice remote — its design refreshed for this year — and run off Fire OS 7 based off of Android 9 Pie.
It's a weird time to be a smartphone shopper. Should you be holding out until your next phone is 5G? Will 5G even impact your usage, for that matter? And assuming Samsung can resolve its manufacturing kinks, could a crazy folding-screen phone actually be in your future? As you try to work your way through those critical decisions, here are a couple of our favorite deals from the past week to distract you:
Are you on the lookout for a cheap telly? It seems like manufacturers made too many Fire TVs, because we're seeing them pretty remarkable deals from Toshiba and Insignia on 4K TVs.
We'd like a moment of silence for our fallen friend, the oft-discounted, Assistant-equipped Insignia Voice smart speaker. It was officially discontinued sometime around the turn of April, and it's no longer offered by Best Buy, which owns Insignia.
We didn't have one of these lists to share on Monday — it was a slow weekend — but we're back with all manner of tech deals. Today we've got crazy cheap smart TVs, Sennheiser earbuds, a Bluetooth bathroom scale, and then some.
Feature parity is a huge point of contention in Android, and now in Google Assistant speakers too. Whenever Google announces a new ability for its Home line-up, you can toss a coin and it's pretty much 50-50 whether this will work on Assistant speakers from other brands. For phone calls, the situation has been more dire. Even though Google Home users could make a voice call starting August 2017 (in the US first), those with third-party speakers didn't have that option. But things are getting better.
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- We're getting word that a subsequent update enables Continued Conversation on Insignia speakers. The feature sees speakers listen for follow-up questions after delivering an answer; for example, after hearing the forecast for the day, you can ask "what about tomorrow?" without saying "hey, Google" again. It'll stop listening after a few seconds, or you can say "thank you" to end the exchange.
Insignia makes a couple of popular alarm clock-style smart speakers featuring the Google Assistant. Previously, when asked about the weather, the speakers would display the current temperature under the clock face. Now, though, they've been updated to display that information all the time.
Do you want a cheap Google Assistant speaker for every room in your house? Even the garage, the closet, and the laundry room? Then you may want to think quick and act quicker. Best Buy is discounting its Insignia smart speakers now, and you can grab them for or , depending on whether you want some portability or not.
Best Buy's Insignia smart speakers are some of the cheapest Google Assistant smart home gear you can get, if you grab them during one of their frequent discounts. The last time we covered them, the non-portable version was only $25 and the portable one was $50, but they've fallen below that recently. Until now though, they didn't offer any incentive to grab them instead of a Home Mini, beside their alarm clock display. That has changed with the latest update.
Smart bulbs are a popular product category, but they essentially make the wall light switches useless. If you turn off the switch, the bulb will no longer work. One solution is to use a normal light bulb with a smart switch, but those can be just as expensive - though not in this case. Now you can get the Insignia smart light switch for just $14.99 from Daily Steals, using our exclusive coupon code.
You have your choice of Google Assistant speakers, from Google's own Home, Home Mini, Home Max, to the different third-party solutions that are popping up from the likes of JBL, Sony, Mobvoi, and more. But when it comes to cheap solutions, the Home Mini at $35 still sort of reigns supreme. Today, however, it might be getting a bit of a competition from Best Buy's Insignia brand.
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- Logitech, August Home, and Rachio have all announced that they're adding Google Assistant support for the Harmony hubs and remotes, Smart Lock, and Smart Sprinkler Controller, respectively. However, it seems that August Home and Rachio will only work with Assistant on Google Home, not the one on your phone. Sigh. It might be the same for Logitech.
A smart home hub, like the Google Home, is only useful if it can actually control your smart home stuff. The Google Home only shipped with a handful of supported devices and services, but over the past few months, that has expanded a great deal. In addition to the Wink devices we covered earlier, Google Assistant (and thus, the Google Home) now works with LIFX, TP-Link, Vivint, and Best Buy Insignia smart home products.