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BestBuy.com Thanksgiving Weekend Sale – Thursday Through Saturday

MegaZone — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:24:47 +0000

BestBuy.com is having a Thanksgiving Weekend Sale, 3 Days Only, Thursday-Saturday. There are a number of tech deals worth checking out. These are the highlights:

Thursday-Saturday Only: Only $999.99 Samsung 55″ Class LED 1080p HDTV. Best Buy exclusive.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Great Home Theater Deals.

Thursday-Saturday Only: Free $50 Gift Card with Apple iPod touch 8GB MP3 Player.
Thursday-Saturday Only: $20 Off Any $100 iTunes Gift Card.
Thursday-Saturday Only: $2.99 Music CDs.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Great iPod and MP3 Player Deals.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Great Entertainment Deals.

Thursday-Saturday Only: Xbox 360 250GB Holiday Bundle with Fable III and Halo: Reach, Only $199.99.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Nintendo 3DS Game Console, $179.99.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Select Games for $34.99.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Select Games for $29.99.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Select Game Accessories for $7.99.
Thursday-Saturday Only: Great Gaming and Gadget Deals.

There are many more deals, so be sure to check them out. The links should be live on Thursday.

BestBuy.com Electronics & Gaming Deals, and More

MegaZone — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:44:09 +0000

In addition to the two-day sale that started today and runs through Saturday, BestBuy.com has a number of additional deals this weel. See this Week’s Sale Events and Free Shipping Offers.

Free Sharp 3D Wi-Fi Blu-ray Player (Shipping Extra) with Sharp AQUOS 60” Class LED-LCD 1080p HDTV.

5% – 20% Off Select HDTVs.

$369.99 Lenovo IdeaPad Laptop / Intel® Pentium® Processor / 15.6″ Display / 4GB Memory / 500GB Hard Drive

$329.99 Toshiba Satellite Laptop / AMD E-Series Processor / 15.6″ Display / 3GB Memory / 320GB Hard Drive

5%-40% Off Select Digital Cameras and Camcorders, Plus Free Shipping.

Free $75 Gift Card with 250GB Xbox 360 Console.

$10 Off Madden NFL 12 (Game Guide) when you buy Madden NFL 12 for Xbox 360, PS3, or Wii.

$9.99 Sale on Select Blu-ray Titles.

Lenovo’s Android Tablets

MegaZone — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:26:51 +0000

I’ve posted a lot about Android tablets, but I haven’t really covered Lenovo’s two offerings. One, the IdeaPad K1, is out now and is targeted at the average user. Amazon currently has it for $479.99. The second, the ThinkPad Tablet, is due out on August 23rd and is targeted at business users. The two tablets share similar specs – Android 3.1, Nvidia Tegra 2 1GHz dual-core processor, 10.1″ 1280×800 screen, 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, optional 3G, 1GB RAM, 16/32/64GB storage, 2MP front facing camera, 5MP rear facing camera, mini HDMI, etc. Fairly common specs for Android tablets these days.

But they’re not just the same tablet with different labels. The IdeaPad K1 includes a microSD slot, while the ThinkPad Tablet has a full size SD slot. The ThinkPad also has a full size USB port, like the Toshiba Thrive, as well as a microUSB port. The ThinkPad Tablet also includes a pressure sensitive stylus for pen-based input, and there is an available keyboard dock which includes the Lenovo TrackPoint device. While the IdeaPad K1 has a single button on the front, the ThinkPad Tablet has four – home, back, browser, and a screen orientation lock. The ThinkPad Tablet is also more angular and ‘serious’ looking than the more curved IdeaPad K1, I’m sure that’s intentional styling for the different markets.

The pre-loaded apps are also different, with the IdeaPad focused on games, music, and entertainment apps, while the ThinkPad gets down to business with more business oriented apps like Citrix Receiver and the FlexT9 advanced virtual keyboard. Both do include Documents To Go, Angry Birds HD, and Netflix however, so you can take a break from fun to work, or take a break from work for some fun.

The IdeaPad K1 is 10.4” x 7.4” x .5” and 1.65 pounds, while the ThinkPad Tablet is 10.3″ x 7.2″ x .57″ and weighs 1.64 pounds with WiFi or 1.67 pounds with 3G. So they’re very similar in size and weight.

Android Tablets Claimed 30% of the Market Last Quarter

MegaZone — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:54:12 +0000

In the second quarter of 2010 Apple’s iPad owned 94% of the global tablet market, and Android tablets had just 2.9%. The tablet market was really exclusively iPad.

How things can change in a year.

For the second quarter of 2011 the iPad’s share of the market dropped to 61.3%, while Android tablets had clawed their way up to claim 30% of tablet sales. You might’ve noticed that, jointly, they claimed 91.3% this year – but 96.9% last year. So where did the rest go? Well, coming in at number three, Windows tablets claimed 4.6%. Yes, Windows tablets. What about RIM’s PlayBook, which launched during the quarter? It managed a measly 3.3%. These figures are according to a study by market research firm Strategy Analytics.

We’ll have to see how they all fair this quarter, and we have a new entrant in the fight, the HP WebOS Touchpad. But the wave of Android tablets also continues to build. The best selling Android tablet, and second best selling tablet overall, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer could’ve sold even more if not for supply issues. Asus seems to have ironed out the issues, and the supply of Transformers has already begun ramping up and will continue to do so. The T-Mobile G-Slate (aka LG Optimus Pad) shipped just before the end of the last quarter. The Toshiba Thrive has just launched.

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is slated to launch next month, sliding in between the 7 and 10.1 inch models, giving consumers more choice. Lenovo has just announced the IdeaPad K1, aimed at consumers, and the ThinkPad Tablet, which is aimed more toward business users – right at the RIM PlayBook. The delayed Cisco Cius, also aimed at businesses, will ship at the end of the month. Archos has a couple of models pending, Vizio has their tablet, etc.

The reality seems very different from the impression you’d get reading articles about the tablet market. From the articles you’d think that everyone wants an iPad and no one is buying anything else. Sales of Android tablets have been weak, makers are even considering pulling out of the market, it is all doom and gloom. Android Honeycomb, the first version of Android optimized for tablets, only released in late February with the Motorola Xoom. That’s when the Android tablet market kicked off for real.

Remember how dismissive articles about Android phones were in 2009 – right up until the Motorola Droid hit the streets with Android 2.0? In the year and a half since then which mobile OS has taken the top spot in sales? It’s been less than five months since Honeycomb hit the streets. 30% of the global tablet market. Let’s see what things look like at the end of the year, by which time Ice Cream Sandwich will be out too.

Report figures via Boy Genius Report.