I know it is used gear, but I thought there’d be a little more interest in it. It is free after all. Remember, you have until Sunday night to leave a comment on the respective giveaway post as an entry. There are three giveaways running:
Don’t worry, I have some other, new, stuff to giveaway as well. That’s coming.
Today’s Woot! deal was the first Android tablet released running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, now updated to 3.2, and it still measures up to the best of the current crop in features. It is a refurbished Motorola XOOM 10.1” 32GB WiFi for only $329.99 + $5 S&H
. That’s $150 off the $499.99 MSRP, and nearly $100 off Amazon’s price of $427.25 for a new unit.
It runs Android 3.2 and has a 10.1? 1280×800 display, a 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra2 CPU, 1GB RAM, 32GB of on-board storage, a microSD slot for up to 32GB more, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, 2MP front & 5MP rear cameras, Bluetooth, and HDMI output. It supports video capture at 720p resolution via the rear camera which you can playback on the HD screen or via HDMI. And it runs Adobe Flash, unlike the iPad.
The XOOM is definitely a solid tablet, and while the main downside is normally the price, with this deal that’s really not an issue. It is a lot of tablet for a decent price. I expect these to sellout quickly, so don’t hesitate.
Amazon’s gaming deal of the day is FIFA Soccer 12 for $39.99, 33% off the $59.95 MSRP. You can get it for either the Xbox 360 or the PlayStation 3; your choice, same price.
Google today launched Google+ Pages, which allow non-individuals to have pages on G+. Non-individual means companies, brands, performers, blogs, etc. The same idea as Facebook fan pages, etc. They even put together a little video to promote them:
Now that Google+ Pages are available I’ve created one for Gizmo Lovers, joining the Facebook page and Twitter Feed. I also added a quick link to the page in the navigation column to the right. There don’t appear to be any WordPress plugins for auto-posting new content into G+. (There are a few for pulling content from G+ into WordPress.) That’s not surprising considering it just launched and it doesn’t look like Google has published a posting API yet, so I’ll be manually posting links there for now. For the past few days I’ve been sharing Gizmo Lovers posts on my personal G+ profile, but now that Gizmo Lovers has its own page I will no longer be doing so. This is the last one I’ll share there.
If you want to create your own G+ Page, hit up plus.google.com/pages/create.
They also launched Direct Connect, which allows users to add entities to their G+ Circles directly from Google search results when they prepend a ‘+’ to the search term. So instead of searching on ‘Pepsi’ and getting the usual results, seach on ‘+Pepsi’ and it takes you directly to the Pepsi G+ Page. And they released a quick video on that as well:
You have to satisfy some secret formula for Google to deign you worthy of Direct Connect, so it only works for select pages currently.
Roku brings their price point to its lowest level yet, $49.99, with the new Roku LT. It joins the recently launched Roku 2 product line, but it is not a ‘Roku 2 LT’, simply Roku LT. You do give up some features for the lower price point – no microSD slot and no Bluetooth, which means no gaming support. Like the Roku 2 HD the Roku LT only streams in 720p, no 1080p.
But if you just want an inexpensive way to access Roku’s streaming services, you can’t do better than the Roku LT. You can get it directly from Roku, or from Amazon.
