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Early Black Friday Deals 2026
While the Friday after Thanksgiving has traditionally been the busiest shopping day of the year, Black Friday deals have gradually spread well beyond the day. First came Cyber Monday, then Cyber Week. Now, early Black Friday deals kick off before November has even started. The tricky part for early birds is knowing what’s a genuine deal and what’s likely to go even lower when Black Friday arrives.
The Reviews team at WIRED tracks prices on our favorite gadgets year-round, and we only highlight deals on devices we have tested that we’d be comfortable recommending to friends and family. Some of these picks may be cheaper for Black Friday, but these are the discounts that have caught our eye so far.
The best trackers for anyone with an iPhone; you can use them to keep tabs on your keys, luggage, bike, or whatever else you worry might go missing. Each AirTag location is marked clearly in the Find My app. The battery should last you a year, and we have a guide on how to replace your AirTag battery. Just please don’t use them to track people. This is the lowest price we have seen on the single tag, but it drops this low pretty frequently.
For Apple fans with an iPhone or MacBook, the Apple AirPods Max 2 are the best over-ear headphones. They offer great sound quality, effective noise cancellation, and good transparency modes. They are usually a little too pricey for our tastes compared to Sony and Bose options, but at $100 off, they look more tempting. Before you pull the trigger, they will likely drop by at least another $30 for Black Friday.
If you want to pair wireless earbuds with your iPhone and enjoy a seamless, feature-rich experience, you should snag the AirPods Pro 3. They are comfy, boast top-notch active noise cancellation, and can even translate some languages in real-time. That said, they are at this price often enough that I hesitate to call it a great deal, and they will likely drop by another $20 for Black Friday.
With a great camera, solid performance, and super slick software features, the Pixel 10 Pro is an excellent Android phone. It also has proper Qi2 support for fast wireless charging, but more importantly, the magnets inside make it easy to attach to docks and chargers. Its bigger sibling, the Pro XL, has been my daily driver for most of the last year, and it has served me well. It has frequently dropped to this price before, but I still think it’s a good deal. Best Buy has the best prices at the time of writing, at $699 for the Pro and $849 for the Pro XL, but they may dip lower for Black Friday.
This is one of our favorite 3-in-1 chargers for keeping your iPhone, AirPods, and Apple Watch charged up from a single outlet. The unique feature is its height adjustability, enabling it to pull double duty as a tripod for shooting video or FaceTime calls with family or friends. It has been on sale (close to half price) for a while now, but has never been lower than $60 at Best Buy. Snap it up while you still can.
Gadgets are too boring. I want more anthropomorphized devices in my life. Ugreen simply added a wee robot face to this wireless charger that changes its expression based on the charging status. I immediately like it more than all my old faceless chargers. The charging pad supports Qi2/MagSafe and tilts up to 70 degrees to reveal a second pad to charge AirPods or other wireless earbuds. It even has a USB-C port for a third gadget. At 40 percent off, this is the lowest price I’ve seen.
My pick for the best budget Wi-Fi router dips down to this price fairly often, but it’s a great deal for a Wi-Fi 7 router with four antennas, a 2.5-Gbps WAN, a 2.5-Gbps LAN, and three gigabit LAN ports. It’s only dual-band (2.4 GHz and 5 GHz), so there’s no 6 GHz option, and performance is limited, but for a small home with modest demands, this is a tough price to beat.
I always associate Black Friday with footage of excited shoppers struggling to carry huge TVs out of big box stores. The reality is most Black Friday