JBL’s portable Charge 5 Bluetooth speaker is on sale for its best price yet

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With Memorial Day less than a week away, summer is just around the corner. If your plans this year involve lounging by the pool or picnicking at the park with friends, why not make things more relaxing with the help of a portable speaker? Despite its mono driver, the Charge 5 is one of the best, offering up to 20 hours of battery life and perks. You don't have to worry about your phone running out of battery life when you use the Charge 5 because the speaker has a port for topping off your devices as you listen.

It doesn't sound as good or as detailed as Bose's SoundLink Flex, but it's still good and a great deal right now. If blue isn't your favorite shade, you can purchase it in other colors for less than $150 at both Amazon and Best Buy. Read our guide to buying a speaker.

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The Charge 5 has a long battery life of up to 20 hours. You can charge your phone through the built-in port.

• $146 at Amazon
• $150 at Best Buy

You would have to fork out over $800 for a phone with a big display and a stylus. The Moto G Stylus is one of the best budget-friendly phones you can buy. It's one of the few budget options that has a built-in stylus, and is currently on sale in the 128GB configuration in either pink or blue at Amazon for $2799.99, which is $20 off. It's a modest $20 discount, but it's also one of the best prices we've seen on the unlocked model and only $6 shy of its all-time low.

The Moto G has good value if you don't mind that it doesn't have 5G. It has a good battery life for the price and performs well thanks to its processor and RAM. It comes with a large, 6.8-inch display, which you can use in tandem with the included stylus to write notes on, doodle, and carry out a range of other actions. The 50MP camera won't be taking the best photos, but it works just fine for a phone under $300. Our review can be read.

The Moto G Stylus is one of our favorite budget-friendly phones and comes with a built-in stylus. It performs well and has a large display.

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Are you still looking for a graduation gift? If you missed out on the Amazon Echo Show deals we saw in the run-up to Mother's Day, you're in luck. Right now, you can buy the second-gen Echo Show 8 for $99.99 on Amazon, which isn't the all-time low we saw a few weeks ago, but is still pretty close. Best Buy, Target, and Bed Bath & Beyond are matching this price. You can get a $50 discount on the Ring Video Doorbell or Ring Floodlight Camera when you buy the second-gen Show 8 from Amazon.

The new model has a 13MP front-facing camera that will keep you centered in the frame as you move across the room, which can be used for video calls to family back home. It offers full, robust sound and is faster. The second-gen Echo Show 8 review is here.

You can buy the second-gen Echo Show 5 for half the price if you don't have the budget for the Echo Show 8. The display is currently for $49.99, which is $4 shy of its lowest price to date, but it is still a good deal. If you're only interested in watching videos, setting alarms, listening to music, and controlling your smart home, it's still a great buy. Read our review.

The weather, news, calendars, grocery lists, and more can be displayed on the midsized smart display in the Echo Show 8. You can use it to control your smart home devices. It also supports video calling via Amazon's voice service.

• $100 at Amazon
• $100 at Best Buy

Amazon's smart display is ideal for a nightstand. You can use your voice to set alarms, play music, control smart displays, and get a weather report. To snooze the alarm, you need to tap the top of the show.

• $50 at Amazon
• $50 at Best Buy

If your Memorial Day plans include a lot of lazing around and watching shows, you might want to take advantage of the excellent deal on Hulu before it ends in a few days. New and returning subscribers can get three months of the ad-supported plan for $1 per month until Saturday, May 28th. It's a savings of about $18, but it's important to note that returning customers must have canceled their subscriptions at least a month ago. If you don't mind putting up with ads, you can watch all of the shows and movies from multiple devices for about the price of a coffee this summer.

You can get three months of the ad-supported service for $1 per month and get access to all of the shows and movies on the service. Two people are allowed to stream at the same time.

A good pair of noise-canceling headphones is very useful, especially given how many people work from home these days and need to drown out noise. Thankfully, the stylish Momentum 3 Wireless from Sennheiser is currently on sale at Best Buy for $249.98 instead of $399.98.

Not only do the over-ears adequately cancel out noise, but they offer the best sound quality outside of Apple's AirPods Max, emitting detailed, bass-rich sound. Bose and Sony offer better noise cancellation, but the Momentum 3 Wireless are still some of the best noise-canceling headphones you can buy. They're comfortable and offer features like a custom ambient passthrough and an option to integrate with the location tracking device, Tile. Read the review.

Premium noise-canceling headphones from Sennheiser offer lush comfort, rich sound with plenty of bass, and a timeless design.

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• If you prefer earbuds over headphones, you can currently pick up a pair of white OnePlus Buds Z earbuds for $39.99 from OnePlus, which is a $10 discount on one of our favorite budget-friendly earbuds. The OnePlus Buds Z offer good sound quality, an IP55 dust and water resistance rating, and features like auto-pause, which activates when you remove a bud from your ear.
• Bluetooth trackers also make for a good graduation gift, and right now you can buy a four-pack of assorted Tile trackers for $68 instead of $79.99 on Amazon, its best price ever. The discounted set includes two of the newest Tile Mates, the rectangular Tile Slim, and a Tile Sticker. All are capable of locating items up to 250 feet away, work with both Android and iOS devices, and offer user-replaceable batteries.

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