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Last-minute tech gifts: Best deals
While Black Friday gets all the hype as one of the busiest shopping days of the year, a lot of the buying actually happens the week before Christmas. So don't feel bad if you're still figuring out last-minute gifts for people on your shopping list. You're in good company!
And, ZDNET has you covered. Our editors hosted a YouTube livestream on Dec. 16, where our team ran through the best deals we've found on the tech products we liked the most from 2022. We'll help you find the best deals you can get right now on smartphones, tablets, headphones, robot vacuums, smart home gear, TVs, gaming equipment, laptops, and more. We've been researching and keeping an eye on the best tech deals since the beginning of November and we've pulled together all that research and wisdom here.
You can watch a replay of the livestream on YouTube, and we updated included links to each of the deals below:
Accessories
Headphone deals
TV deals
Laptop deals
Gaming deals
Robot vacuum deals
Smart home deals
Phone deals
Tablet deals
The links below also round up the research our team has been doing over the last month to find the best deals.
Want to find more holiday deals?
ZDNET experts split out the best deals by retailer, brand, and category, which you can see below.
Holiday deals by retailer
- The best Amazon deals
- The best Walmart deals
- Top deals at Best Buy
- The best AT&T deals
- The best Verizon deals
Holiday deals by brand
Holiday deals by category
- The best gaming laptop deals
- The best AirPods deals
- The best headphone deals
- The best laptop deals
- The best monitor deals
- The best robot vacuum deals
- The best phone deals
- The best iPhone deals
- The best tablet deals
- The best iPad deals
- The best iPad Pro deals
- The best TV deals
- The best VPN deals
- The best security camera deals
- The best Amazon security camera deals: Ring and Blink
- The best smartwatch deals
- The best storage deals
- The best power station deals
- The best Apple Watch deals
- The best fitness deals
- The best streaming deals
Here are some of the cheapest deals we found: