Currys Smart Tech: What You Buy, and How Long It Stays Safe to Use

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Currys lists 274 security cameras and CCTV products, priced from a £18.97 TP-Link Tapo C200 to a £419.95 Ring alarm bundle, alongside 45 video doorbells and 43 smart speakers and displays running from £44.99 to £550.00. Every one of those prices was readable on 23 October 2026, and each reduced item shows the window its old price applied in — the eufy C220 at £26.99 was £34.99 from 21/09/26 to 11/10/26, the Arlo AVD4001 at £69.99 was £139.00 from 20/06/26 to 09/08/26.

Behind the shop is a business that has had a good year. Currys plc reported audited results for the year ended 2 May 2026 on 2 July 2026: UK and Ireland revenue of £5,438m on like-for-like growth of 3%, Nordics revenue of £3,816m on 6%, statutory profit before tax of £153m, group free cash flow of £157m and year-end net cash of £176m after £74m of shareholder returns. The full-year dividend doubled to 3.0p and a £50m buyback began the same day. More than 24,000 people work there, and the smart tech aisles are staffed.

One thing is worth knowing before you start comparing. Almost nothing in the smart tech range is made by Currys: it is a distributor of other companies’ hardware, and under the 2023 connectable-product regulations the duty to publish how long a device will keep receiving security updates sits with the maker, on the maker’s own site. That number is the closest thing a smart plug or a doorbell has to a use-by date, and it is not printed next to the price here. This page collects it for the brands Currys actually stocks.

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What Currys is under the Act	A distributor, not a manufacturer. Section 22 of the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 says it “may not make the product available in the United Kingdom unless it is accompanied by” a statement of compliance
Range and prices read on 23 October 2026	274 security cameras and CCTV, 45 video doorbells, 43 voice-control devices, 6 smart plugs; £5.97 (WiZ smart plug) to £550.00 (Skylight Max 27-inch display)
Security-update period shown on a Currys page	None, on any of the four listings or either product page opened on 23 October 2026
What is shown instead	A guarantee — “2 year guarantee” on most tiles, and “Manufacturer’s guarantee: 2 years” in the Tapo D210 specification table
Where the number does exist	TP-Link, Signify, Google, Arlo and Ring each publish one, on five different websites, measured from five different starting events
Minimum period the law sets	None. The regulations require the period to be published, not to be any particular length
Corporate identity	Currys Group Limited, company number 00504877, incorporated 28 February 1952, registered at Currys Newark Campus, Long Hollow Way, Newark NG24 2NH
Enforcement to date	The OPSS enforcement page for these regulations was last updated 8 August 2025 and names no case; OPSS says it “publishes details of any Compliance Notice that we serve”

What £18.97 buys, and what 274 cameras look like once they are priced

The shelf is wide and the cheap end is genuinely cheap. On the security camera and CCTV listing, which showed “Showing 1 - 20 of 274”, the first twenty tiles ran from a £18.97 TP-Link Tapo C200 and a £26.99 eufy C220 up to a £219.99 Ring Wired Retinal 4K Video Doorbell Pro. The doorbell listing showed “Showing 1 - 20 of 45”, from a £34.99 Tapo TD20 to a £419.95 Ring Alarm, Indoor Camera and Battery Video Doorbell kit. Voice control showed 43 items, from a £44.99 Echo Pop to a £550.00 Skylight Max 27-inch display, with the Apple HomePod mini 2 at £149.00 and Apple HomeView at £299.00, both on pre-order.

Smart plugs are the thin category: six products in total, led by a £5.97 WiZ plug and two Currys own-brand Sandstrom plugs at £9.99 and £17.99. Two of the six were out of stock on the day. It is worth knowing that smart plugs sit inside the security camera path on Currys’ own navigation rather than in a category of their own, which is why they are easy to miss.

Reductions are dated, which is more than many retailers manage. The Tapo C510W at £34.99 shows “Was £37.99 (from 03/07/26 to 11/08/26)”; the Blink Whole Home Security Kit Plus at £69.99 shows “Was £119.00 (from 08/08/26 to 06/09/26)”; the Tapo C610 solar kit at £64.99 shows “Was £69.99 (from 19/08/26 to 24/09/26)”. Printing the window the higher price actually applied in is the hard part of a was-and-now claim, and Currys does it.

The number a maker has to publish, and the one it does not

Since 29 April 2024, anyone selling a connected consumer product in the UK has been inside the Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure regime. Schedule 1 of the 2023 regulations sets out what a manufacturer owes the buyer, and paragraph 3 is the one that matters at the till: “The defined support period must be published.” It has to be “accessible, clear and transparent”, available “without prior request for such information being made”, in English, free of charge, given without asking for the reader’s personal details, and written “in such a way that is understandable by a reader without prior technical knowledge”.

Two sub-paragraphs make it a promise rather than a slogan. Under paragraph 3(3), if a maker extends the period, the new one must be published “as soon as is practicable”. Under paragraph 3(6), the requirements are not met if the period is shortened after it has been published. A maker can be generous later; it cannot quietly claw the date back.

Here is the gap that explains this whole page. Paragraph 3(5) says that where a manufacturer publishes an invitation to purchase on its own website, the support information must sit alongside the price information, or be given equal prominence to it. That duty is written for the maker’s shop, not for somebody else’s. Currys is somebody else’s. Nothing in Schedule 1 obliges a retailer to put the support date next to the price, which is exactly why it is not there.

The second thing worth knowing is that the law sets no minimum. The Government’s own guidance describes the duty as “publishing information on minimum security update periods” — publishing, not providing. A manufacturer that states one year and sticks to it is compliant. The regime makes firms honest about the date; it does not make the date long.

Five brands on one shelf, and five different clocks

Put the makers Currys stocks side by side and the periods look comparable. They are not, because each one starts counting at a different moment.

Signify, for Philips Hue and WiZ. Its UK statement of compliance, issued 29-Apr-2024 and signed by Robert Sprott, Compliance Manager UK&I, declares a defined support period of “5 years, except 3 years for Hue bridge”, and names Signify Commercial UK Limited, Unit 3, Guildford Business Park, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 8XG as the UK authorised representative of Signify of 5600 VB Eindhoven. Its consumer end-of-support page measures that from purchase: “a minimum total of five (5) years from the date of your purchase from an authorised reseller” for lights and accessories, and “a minimum total of three (3) years from the date of your purchase” for the Bridge v2.

TP-Link, for Tapo. Its PSTI page is blunt: “The defined support period will end 3 years after the product’s end-of-life date.” Not from purchase — from the day the model is retired. The declaring entity is TP-LINK SYSTEMS INC., 5 Peters Canyon Road, Suite. 300, Irvine, CA 92606.

Google, for Nest. Its UK statement of compliance, signed April 8, 2024 by Louise Bohmann, Director & PA Compliance Lead for Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, puts Nest cameras, doorbells, thermostats, speakers, displays and Wifi in a group promised “at least five years from when the device first became available on the Google Store in the US”. Not from UK launch, and not from purchase. For contrast, the same document gives Pixel 8 seven years, Pixel Watch three, and Fitbit “at least two years after the device is last sold”.

Arlo. Its end-of-life policy sets the end-of-life date “no earlier than four (4) years from the date that volume manufacturing of such Arlo hardware devices last occurred”, and then promises “critical security updates for hardware to one year beyond the hardware’s EOL Effective Date”. Feature firmware stops at that date: the policy lists “No firmware upgrades” among the consequences.

Ring. Four years from purchase or the published end date, whichever falls later.

So: purchase, product retirement, first availability in another country, last factory run, and purchase-or-published-date. Five clocks. A shopper standing in front of a £79.99 Ring doorbell and a £74.99 Tapo D130 cannot compare “four years” with “three years”, because the two numbers are not measuring the same thing — and neither number is on either page.

Look the dates up and some of them have already gone

This is the part that repays ten minutes before you buy. Google publishes a full table of end dates for Nest hardware, written in US order, and on 23 October 2026 several products that are still familiar names had passed it: Nest Cam (battery) and Nest Cam with Floodlight both at 8/24/2026, Nest Cam (wired) at 10/5/2026, Nest Hub (2nd gen) at 3/30/2026, Nest Thermostat at 10/30/2025, Nest Audio at 10/5/2025, Nest Mini at 10/22/2024 and Nest Wifi at 10/28/2024. The older entries have been expired for years: Nest Hello ended 3/31/2023 and the original Nest Learning Thermostat 9/30/2020.

The same table carries the good news, and it is worth saying plainly. Nest Cam Outdoor (wired, 2nd gen) and Nest Doorbell (wired, 3rd gen) both run to 10/1/2030, the Nest Learning Thermostat (4th gen) to 8/20/2029, and the Google Home Speaker (2026) — which Currys sells at £99.99 — to 06/25/2031. Buy that one and you have a published commitment running almost five years out.

TP-Link publishes a model-by-model table too, and it shows something Currys’ pages cannot. The Tapo C200, the £18.97 camera at the top of the listing, is supported to 11/7/2027 in hardware versions V1, V2 and V3, to 20/2/2029 in V3.20, and to 16/1/2030 in V5. That is a spread of two and a half years across one model name. The Tapo C510W runs to 20/2/2029 in V1 and 31/12/2029 or later in V2. The Tapo P100 four-pack in hardware version V1 carries a defined support period of 8/10/2024, which expired two years ago.

Currys prints the model. It does not print the hardware version. On the £18.97 C200 the difference between the version you might receive and the one you might hope for is 11 July 2027 against 16 January 2030, and nothing on the product page, the specification table or the box description tells you which is in the carton.

A two-year guarantee and a support date are different promises

Most smart tech tiles on Currys carry the words “2 year guarantee”, and the Tapo D210 product page confirms it in the specification table as “Manufacturer’s guarantee: 2 years”. That is a good guarantee for a £44.99 doorbell and better than the statutory minimum the shopper would otherwise fall back on. It is also answering a different question.

A guarantee covers the device breaking. A defined support period covers the device staying safe to use while it still works perfectly. The two are not the same length and they do not expire together. On that same Tapo D210, the guarantee runs two years from purchase and TP-Link’s own table supports version V1 to 16/1/2030 — so the support outlasts the guarantee by years. On a Nest Cam (battery) bought shortly before its 8/24/2026 date, it runs the other way: a working camera, inside its guarantee, with no more security updates coming.

The National Cyber Security Centre puts it better than any retailer does. Its guidance on smart devices in the home, version 2.0, last reviewed 23 February 2024, describes the support date as “a ‘use by’ date for your device, so you’ll know how long it’s still safe to use”, advises buyers to “avoid buying devices that are no longer supported by the manufacturer, or whose support period will end soon”, and warns that out of support, “smart devices are easier to hack, or may stop working altogether”. Its instruction on where to find the date is one line: “Check the manufacturer’s website for details.” That is sound advice precisely because the shop will not have it.

What the Act puts on the shop, and what Currys shows of it

Retailers are not bystanders in this regime. The Act gives distributors five duties of their own, and they are worth knowing because they are the ones Currys is answerable for.

Section 21 requires a distributor to comply with the relevant security requirements where it intends the product for UK consumers or ought to know that is where it is going. Section 22 is the one with teeth at the point of sale: the distributor “may not make the product available in the United Kingdom unless it is accompanied by” a statement of compliance, or a summary of one. Section 23 forbids supplying a product where the distributor “knows or believes that there is a compliance failure in relation to the product”. Section 24 covers its own failures: it must “take all reasonable steps to remedy the compliance failure” as soon as practicable and notify the enforcement authority. Section 25 covers the maker’s failures: contact the manufacturer “as soon as possible”, and where a remedy is unlikely, “take all reasonable steps to prevent the product from being made available” to UK customers.

The statement of compliance is the document that carries the support period, and Government guidance is explicit that the duty is shared: “the manufacturer, importer and distributor must ultimately ensure that the SoC accompanies the product”. It also confirms that “the Act does not specify that the document must be physical; therefore it could be digital” — which means a link on a product page would satisfy it.

Currys’ own site does not take that option. Its footer carries Product recalls, which points at a safety page, along with privacy, terms, modern slavery and a sitemap. On 23 October 2026 there was no product-security page, no statement-of-compliance page and no support-period page anywhere in the navigation, and none of the four smart tech listings or the two product pages opened carried a word about security updates. Product safety at Currys has a public page with 28 dated recalls on it. Product security has none.

The regulator is quiet too. The Office for Product Safety and Standards publishes enforcement guidance for these regulations setting out compliance notices, stop notices, recall notices, monetary penalties and forfeiture orders. It was last updated 8 August 2025, it names no company and no case, and it states that “OPSS publishes details of any Compliance Notice that we serve, in line with our Enforcement Policy”. Read it for what it is — guidance on powers, not a register of their use — but two and a half years into the regime, there is nothing on it to read.

The own-brand question these pages do not answer

Two of the six smart plugs Currys sells are its own: the Sandstrom SSPMW26 at £9.99 and the Sandstrom SSPMW24 at £17.99, both advertised as working with Matter. Sandstrom also accounts for four of the smart digital calendars in voice control, at £99.00, £149.00, £199.00 and £399.00.

This matters more than its share of the range suggests. The distributor duties above are the light-touch end of the Act. A firm that puts its own brand on a connectable product is generally treated as the manufacturer, and the manufacturer is the party that has to publish the defined support period in the first place. If Currys is the manufacturer of a Sandstrom smart plug, the number is Currys’ own to produce.

It could not be established either way on 23 October 2026. The Sandstrom listings name no manufacturer, importer or responsible company, and the Sandstrom product page returned a client error on five separate attempts across the day, so its specification table could not be read. No Currys-published support period for a Sandstrom connectable product was found anywhere on the site. That is a gap in this page rather than a finding against the shop, and it deserves a second look by anyone buying one.

One further thing a camera buyer should know, because no retailer mentions it. A doorbell or camera that captures images beyond your own boundary makes you a data controller under UK data protection law, with a duty to tell people they are being recorded, to delete footage you no longer need, and to answer a request for a copy within one calendar month. Cloud plans that keep 180 days of playback are convenient and they do not alter that duty.

Where it wins

Prices are printed plainly across the smart tech range, and reduced items carry the exact dates the old price applied — £44.99 down from £99.99 “from 15/04/26 to 07/08/26” on the Blink starter kit, which lets a shopper judge the saving rather than take it on trust
Real breadth at the cheap end: a WiZ smart plug at £5.97, a Tapo C200 camera at £18.97, a Swann EVO at £36.97 and a Tapo TD20 doorbell at £34.99, so a first connected device costs less than a takeaway
Most tiles carry a two-year manufacturer’s guarantee rather than the one year a shopper might expect, and it is stated on the tile as well as in the specification table
Where a maker does publish a long support period, the stock reflects it: the Google Home Smart Speaker (2026) sells at £99.99 and Google’s own table supports it to 25 June 2031, which is close to five years from the day it goes on a shelf
The specification tables are genuinely detailed — the Tapo D210 page lists power as a rechargeable battery with up to six months of life, the app, the box contents and the fact that a cloud plan needs a monthly subscription
Currys plc publishes audited numbers and is in good financial health: £153m statutory profit before tax, £176m year-end net cash and a doubled 3.0p dividend for the year ended 2 May 2026, which matters for a retailer you may need to go back to

Where it falls short

No security-update period appears anywhere on Currys’ smart tech pages. Four listings covering 274 cameras, 45 doorbells, 43 voice-control devices and 6 smart plugs, plus the product pages opened on 23 October 2026, carried nothing — so the one specification that decides how long a connected device stays safe to use has to be looked up on five separate manufacturers’ websites
Currys prints the model name but not the hardware version, and the version is what decides the date. The £18.97 Tapo C200 is supported to 11/7/2027 in V1, V2 and V3 and to 16/1/2030 in V5 — a two-and-a-half-year spread on one product page that shows neither number
There is no product-security, statement-of-compliance or support-period page anywhere in the Currys footer or navigation. The nearest is “Product recalls”, which is a safety page with 28 corrective action programmes on it and nothing at all about software
The “2 year guarantee” shown on most tiles is a repair promise, not a support promise, and the page offers nothing to tell the two apart. A shopper can reasonably read it as the length of time the device will keep working properly, which is not what it means
Currys’ own-brand Sandstrom smart plugs at £9.99 and £17.99 name no manufacturer, importer or responsible company on the listing, and the product page would not open across five attempts — so whether Currys publishes a defined support period for the connectable products it brands itself could not be established at all
Philips Hue’s own UK end-of-support page gives two different starting points for the same five years: sections 1, 2 and 4 measure “from the date of your purchase from an authorised reseller”, while a footnote to section 5 says “Durations are from the moment Signify stops selling this version of the product”. The page does not reconcile them
TP-Link’s statement of compliance carries no date and no signatory, and large parts of its table read “31/12/2029 or later*” with the asterisk left unexplained in the document — a floor rather than an answer, on the brand that supplies the cheapest cameras in the range
Smart plugs are filed inside the security camera and CCTV path rather than given a category of their own, and the whole category runs to six products, two of which were out of stock on the day

Common questions

How long will a smart device bought from Currys keep getting security updates?

Between three and five years, depending entirely on who made it. Signify publishes 5 years for Philips Hue lights and accessories and 3 years for the Hue Bridge; Google promises Nest hardware at least 5 years; TP-Link gives 3 years after a product’s end-of-life date; Arlo sets end of life no earlier than 4 years after the last volume manufacturing run and then adds a year of critical security updates; Ring gives 4 years from purchase or its published date, whichever is later. Currys itself publishes no period for anything.

Why does Currys not show the support date next to the price?

Because the regulations do not ask it to. Paragraph 3(5) of Schedule 1 to the 2023 regulations requires the support information to sit alongside the price only where the manufacturer publishes the invitation to purchase on its own website. A retailer’s duty is different: under section 22 of the Act it may not make a connectable product available unless the product is accompanied by a statement of compliance. Government guidance confirms that document can be digital, so a link would do — but nothing compels one.

Is there a legal minimum support period?

No. The Government’s guidance describes the obligation as “publishing information on minimum security update periods”. The duty is to state the period, not to make it long. A manufacturer that publishes one year and honours it has complied. The one protection buyers do have is paragraph 3(6): once a defined support period has been published it cannot be shortened, and under paragraph 3(3) an extension must be published as soon as is practicable.

Does the two-year guarantee on Currys tiles cover security updates?

No. The “2 year guarantee”, shown as “Manufacturer’s guarantee: 2 years” in the Tapo D210 specification table, is a promise about the hardware failing. The defined support period is a separate promise about software. They are different lengths: on that same doorbell the guarantee runs two years from purchase while TP-Link supports hardware version V1 to 16/1/2030. On a Nest Cam (battery), whose published date was 8/24/2026, it works the other way round.

How do I find out which hardware version I am buying?

With difficulty, which is the awkward part. Currys lists the model name only. TP-Link’s own table separates the Tapo C200 into V1, V2 and V3 at 11/7/2027, V3.20 at 20/2/2029 and V5 at 16/1/2030. The version is normally printed on the label on the device or the box, so it can be checked on delivery and the item returned within the normal window if it is an older run than expected. Asking in store before paying is the simpler route.

What happens when a device goes out of support?

It usually keeps working and stops being patched. The National Cyber Security Centre warns that out of support, smart devices “are easier to hack, or may stop working altogether”, and calls the support date a “‘use by’ date for your device”. Arlo’s policy is explicit that end of life brings “No firmware upgrades”, while critical security fixes continue for one further year. Several Google Nest products — Nest Mini, Nest Wifi, Nest Audio, Nest Thermostat, Nest Hub 2nd gen and three Nest Cam models — were already past their published dates on 23 October 2026.

Has anyone been penalised under these rules?

Nothing has been published. The Office for Product Safety and Standards maintains an enforcement page for the connectable product security regulations setting out compliance notices, stop notices, recall notices and monetary penalties. It was last updated 8 August 2025, it names no company and no case, and it says OPSS “publishes details of any Compliance Notice that we serve”. That page is guidance on the powers rather than a register of their use, so read it as silence rather than as proof.

Our verdict

Currys is a good place to buy smart tech and a poor place to find out how long it will last. The prices are plain, the reductions are dated honestly, the two-year guarantee beats the minimum, and there are 274 cameras and 45 doorbells to choose between starting at £18.97. What is missing is one line per product, and the law does not require the shop to supply it — the duty to publish a defined support period falls on the maker, next to the maker’s own price. So the number exists for everything on these shelves; it is just somewhere else. Before you buy, spend ten minutes on the manufacturer’s support page, and on a TP-Link product check the hardware version in the box against its table, because that is where the years are won and lost. Buy the Google Home Smart Speaker (2026) at £99.99 and you have cover published to 25 June 2031. Buy a Tapo P100 four-pack in hardware version V1 and the published period ran out on 8 October 2024.

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