All right, folks, brace yourselves–Best Buy just leaked its Black Friday deals, even though at this point they’re a little behind the curve; Sears and Office Depot had theirs out weeks ago. But given as it’s still about a week and a half out from Black Friday, there’s still plenty of time to call this a leak.
And what they’ve got is pretty interesting, too–check out this list! There are a LOT of items for sale here, so I’m just going to cherry pick some of the better ones. The read link will have a bigger list on hand.
HP Desktop AMD X4 Quad Core, 8GB Memory, 1TB Hard Drive w/20” Monitor, HP Deskjet DJ350 Color Printer & Windows 7 Home Premium – $499.97
Sony 15” Laptop w/Intel Dual Core Processor, 4GB RAM, 320GB HD, Windows 7, Sony Headphones, Built-In Blu-ray, Blu-ray Movie – $479.97
Sony DCR-SX40 Handycam Camcorder – $199.99
Samsung 5.1 Channel 1000W Home Theater System With Blu-ray Disc Player – $399.99
Sony PlayStation 3 Package w/120GB Console, Little Big Planet, and Ratchet And Clank – $299.99
Sounds like enough to get you out of your post-holiday turkey coma, doesn’t it?
We been pretty remiss when it comes to covering Nokia 3G Netbook, but some news hit today that we couldn’t possibly pass up. When it goes up for preorder at Best Buy on October 22nd the 3G will retail for $299. But before you get too excited, keep in mind that you’ll need to sign up for a 2-year mobile broadband plan from AT&T at $60 a month. Alternatively, you can score the 3G sans broadband plan for $599, which if you run the math is a hell of alot better deal, especially when you consider how ubiquitous WiFi is these days.
For those of you who live and die with your iPhone, now there’s a way for you to actually start your car with your smart phone of choice. Viper has just announced their new iPhone app and vehicle module appropriately titled the Viper Smart Start. From your iPhone you can start your car, turn on the heat, unlock doors and the trunk, and manage the alarm. The app itself is not limited by any certain distance parameters as long as it receives a signal. Sounds crazy right?
So while the App itself is free, the device that needs to be installed into your car is not. Costing somewhere between $300-$500 depending on the make and model of your car, there’s also a annual fee of $30. Available now at BestBuy.
So there’s been an announcement that Best Buy means to sell the iRex book reader to compete with Amazon’s Kindle, among numerous others. It’ll cost a whopping four hundred bucks, but come with an eight inch touchscreen (8.1, actually), connect to Verizon Wireless networks, but while Verizon itself is open to connecting other e-readers through its networks, it’s not willing to sell the iRex in its own stores, at least for the time being.
This is probably the best move Verizon can make, even if it isn’t exactly good news for Best Buy. However, even Best Buy can get away with a little piggyback advertising with “Verizon’s network”, and of course, the first mover advantage will be a big help for the iRex.
Keep your eyes front, folks–this could be a real donnybrook, with plenty of new players moving for the Kindle market.
While the details are a bit few and far between, we now know that Sprint will soon release an updated version of their Instinct S30, called the Instinct HD, thanks to a Best Buy flyer from over the weekend. This news comes on the heels of a recently leaked shot of the Android based Instinct, the Instinct Q. Unlike the Instinct Q, the Instinct HD lacks a full QWERTY keyboard and the Android OS, but makes up for it by including a 5 megapixel camera that can…
While we wait for Sony to firm up the details on the NOW confirmed Slim PS3, let’s take a look at their latest audio offering. Announced today in partnership with Best Buy, the ALTUS product line includes a variety of speakers, Blu-ray players and iPod/iPhone compatible docks. Without getting too deep into the details we’ve got the following:
ALT-SA31iR: A multiroom iPod/iPhone docking system that includes 2 wireless speakers, FM/AM radio, remote and an LCD display. Additional wireless speakers can be added. $700
AIR-SW10Ti: An iPod dock with two built-in speakers and a wireless subwoofer. It too includes an FM/AM radio and can transmit audio to compatible wireless speakers. $400
ALT-SA32PC: It’s essentially a USB transmitter that sends your computer’s music to included wireless speakers. $500
ALT-A33PC: The same as the product above, but this one includes a “a universal receiver that can connect to a variety of audio products” and doesn’t include any speakers. $200
ALT-SA34R Socket Speaker Package: These too are wireless speakers (S-Air Sony calls it) that plug into your home’s wall outlet and include the S-AIR remote control. $350
BDV-E500W 5.1 Channel Blu-ray Disc Home Theater System: As the system suggests it includes a Blu-ray player with BD-Live and wireless speakers for the back and the front of the room. It does all the audio decoding you’d expect and can be expanded to work in up to 10 rooms assuming you buy the necessary speakers. Sorry, no word on power output. $800
How the Samsung Mondi Wimax enabled MID will be a success is anyone’s guess, but Samsung, via Lets Talk is now selling the device for a cool $450. To refresh your memory, the Mondi is Samsung’s foray into the Wimax world and offers not only blazing fast connectivity speeds, but a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 4GB of storage, GPS, 3 megapixel camera, HDMI output, Bluetooth, DivX playback, Bluetooth, WiFi and a Windows Mobile 6.1 OS. Unfortunately, Wimax is currently only available in select markets (Baltimore, Portland, Ore., Atlanta and Las Vegas) throughout the US. If you prefer a hands on before purchase, the device is also set to go on sale August 1st at Best Buy and Clearwire stores in the aforementioned locals.
Ouch! Best Buy has the Palm PRE retailing sans contract for $849.99! Need I say more, but that’s more than an unsubsidized iPhone. I guess that’s what happens when you don’t require folks to send in the $100 mail-in-rebate on the subsidized version.
February 25th, 2009 5:01 PM | by Christen da Costa
T-Mobile may have not officially launched the Samsung Memoir (SGH-T929), but that hasn’t stopped Best Buy from slapping up a product page and naming a price. The 8 megapixel camera phone can be yours, contract free (I think) for $579.99. The product page currently lists the phone as backordered with an expected ship date of 1 to 2 weeks. Based on other Best Buy contract free phones before official release date I’d gander a guess and say a contract Memoir will run you about 65% less, which is about $200.
According to a ’source close to Sprint or Best Buy’, Best Buy Mobile has obtained a 60 day exclusive right to sell Palm’s latest phone, the Pre. Nothing is official, but at this point does anyone really care? I’m still cringing from Palm’s early and rapid exodus from CES!
