While Amazon's Prime Day blowout is still a few days away and the e-commerce giant has yet to follow eBay's suit with a similarly lengthy list of early deals on popular gadgets, brands like Nokia and Google are wasting no time in generating buzz for discounts set to be made available on July 15.

Both the high-end Pixel 3 and 3 XL, as well as the mid-range Pixel 3a XL, will be on sale exclusively for Prime members for a full 48 hours (or while supplies last) early next week. Although we wouldn't exactly call the upcoming deals earth-shattering, they are definitely better than ...