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Best Buy Wants to Buy Your Old and Busted Games [BestBuy]
Best Buy is rolling out a nationwide games trade-in program, starting this weekend. Customers who sell used games from among " more than 100 popular titles" (not yet disclosed) will receive an instant gift card to take advantage of inside the store. [ Best Buy ]Source
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Best Buy Connect mobile broadband service launching soon
We’ve been hearing wind of a new mobile broadband service coming next month from Best Buy for a few days now, and it looks like the company went ahead and spilled the beans in its own Sunday flyer. The service offers a variety of tiers ranging from a contract-free 250MB per month for $30 all the way up to 5GB monthly on a 24 month contract for $60 a month. Interestingly, 5GB monthly contract-free costs the same $60 monthly — you just get the $35 activation fee waived. At this point we don’t know what the hardware looks like, but we’re told Sprint is providing those bits and bytes wirelessly and that this new service will work with 4G. The employee news image after the break indicates that Connect will be launching on July 11 in all but 75 of the company’s stores. Sometimes living out in the country is a drag.
Update: We got a note from Shaun indicating that there will actually not be any modems offered by Best Buy for this service, rather it will only be offered on GOBI-equipped laptops. Additionally, Shaun indicates the service will not work with 4G, but that’s contrary to some earlier intel we received, so hopefully BBY goes ahead and clarifies all this soon enough.
[Thanks, Jameil and Tyler]
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Best Buy Connect mobile broadband service launching soon originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Motorola’s Droid X up for pre-order today at Best Buy: $200, no pesky mail-in rebates
Sweatin’ those iPhone 4 reception issues? Got a thing for beastlier phones? Still perturbed that your white iPhone 4 pre-order didn’t exactly “work out” as expected? If you’ve found yourself nodding that noggin’ up and down upon reading any of the above questions, you should know that Best Buy’s offering pre-sales of Motorola’s forthcoming Droid X starting today. The benefit, naturally, is that you can avoid Verizon’s pesky $100 mail-in rebate, paying just $199.99 (plus all applicable taxes and bribes) to BB while grabbing a coveting spot in line for the next giant Android phone. Not like you needed an excuse to take a half-day today, but hey — at least you’ve now got a legitimate one.
Motorola’s Droid X up for pre-order today at Best Buy: $200, no pesky mail-in rebates originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Pre-ordered your iPhone 4 at Radio Shack? Sucks to be you – UPDATE
We’re getting reports from some folks who tried to work around the massive fail-up during last week’s pre-order fiasco and pre-order from Radio Shack, Best Buy, and Wal-Mart. The reports aren’t good.
It seems that most stores will not have them in stock tomorrow and that you should probably check with your pre-order store before you head down. One reader, DW, writes:
Hello,
I just wanted to let you guys know that I spoke with the Manager of the RadioShack store that I pre-ordered my iPhone from and he let me know that none of the customers who pre-ordered an iPhone 4 would be getting one from his store tomorrow (Thursday).
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Intel’s X25-M and X25-V SSDs now stocked on Best Buy’s shelves
Best Buy selling some new hard drives may not exactly sound like news, but it is when the drives in question are Intel’s X25-M and X25-V SSDs, which just so happen to be the first SSDs that Best Buy has ever stocked on its store shelves. Those should now be available at some 800 Best Buy stores across the U.S., although you’ll still have to go online if you want anything other than the 40GB or 80GB models. Let’s just hope this push into retail is soon followed by some more consumer-friendly prices.
Intel’s X25-M and X25-V SSDs now stocked on Best Buy’s shelves originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iPhone 4 arrives at Walmart (update: and Best Buy!)
Check out that sweet, sweet box. Yes folks, we seem to have received our very first in-the-cardboard picture of the retail iPhone 4 out in the wild. We don’t work at Walmart, so we can’t verify this one for ourselves, but our tipster says Apple’s latest phone has just landed in the big box retailer’s storehouses.
P.S. — Before you start frothing at the mouth, the CDMA coding on the box in the background relates to an LG 290C handset also stocked by Walmart.
Update: A shot of a Best Buy arrival is past the break.
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iPhone 4 arrives at Walmart (update: and Best Buy!) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sony selling AMD powered VAIOs for the first time in years
We’ve been keeping a close eye on AMD’s big laptop comeback over the last couple of months, and in addition to gaining steam with HP, Dell, Toshiba and Lenovo, it appears AMD’s also gotten Sony back into its court. Both Fry’s and Best Buy are now carrying AMD Athlon II X2-powered machines, and as you may expect, the prices are quite tempting. Conversely, the Intel-based lineup ranges from $699 to $799, but until we get our hands on one of these ourselves, there isn’t exactly a fair comparison to draw at this point. You can hit the source links for the complete specs, but the 15.4-inch EE Series with 4GB of RAM / 320GB of storage and a Blu-ray player is going for $650 while the 17.3-inch EF with a 500GB hard drive for $720. Both also have integrated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4250 graphics, but regardless, the move certainly bodes well for AMD’s newest processor / graphics, since it appears that Sony hasn’t used AMD in its systems since 2005. We guess a welcome back hug is in order.
Sony selling AMD powered VAIOs for the first time in years originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:10:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Insignia’s Infocast Internet Media Display, the Dash-aping Chumby frame, now available
A week back we got word that Best Buy house brand Insignia was moving in on Dash territory with the eight-inch, 800 x 600 Infocast Internet Media Display, and that it’d be releasing on June 20. Sure enough it’s now available online, and is also sitting on a shelf at every local store we checked, meaning this is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to get your cuddle-free Chumby on. At $169 it’s $30 less than the Dash, meaning it makes a little more sense than Sony’s option, but whether or not it’s actually good value depends on just how smart you need your alarm clock to be.
[Thanks, Josh L.]
Insignia’s Infocast Internet Media Display, the Dash-aping Chumby frame, now available originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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$149 WiFi-only Nook confirmed, 3G price dropped to $199 (update: official)
Turns out all our snooping was spot on with this one. We first spotted a simpler, cheaper Nook making its way through the FCC late last month, and then only last night we got tipped off to a $150 price point for the e-reader sans cellular connection. Now Best Buy has confirmed the whole thing with its listing of the BNRV100 model, which comes in over $100 cheaper than Barnes and Noble’s original ($259), although Best Buy has seen fit to give that a price trim as well. We like where this is going, especially if it triggers B&N’s competitors to lower their own fees.
[Thanks, Paul]
Update: Barnes and Noble has now gone fully official with its new $149 Nook. The 3G version has taken a price drop to $199 as well, matching the pricing indicated by Best Buy. B&N is today also outing its firmware version 1.4, which allows the free use of AT&T wireless hotspots everywhere.
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Best Buy’s iPhone 4 inventory plans revealed by another purported leak
Seriously, can’t we keep any mystery in our lives anymore? After we saw what’s purported to be Best Buy’s “playbook” for the iPhone 4 debut yesterday, today we’re being treated to an inventory list revealing the stock ordered up from Apple for the big retailer’s launch of the new handset. Black 16GB variants of the iPhone 4 dominate, with up to 70 per store, but the leak also includes smaller orders for the white 32GB units as well. None of these are in stock yet, mind you, and that playbook did serve up some confusing messages as to whether Best Buy will have any unreserved iPhones to sell at all on launch day. Still, at least you’ll now have a better idea of which locations stand the best chance of dishing out some of that Apple pie you crave so much.
Best Buy’s iPhone 4 inventory plans revealed by another purported leak originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Toshiba Portégé R700 slides in with a thin design, Core power and an affordable pricetag
Toshiba‘s announced more than enough laptops for us in the past week, but the 13.3-inch Portégé R700 is ranking pretty high up there on our favorite list. The ultraportable has gotten a complete redesign at its core — there’s a new magnesium chassis that’s been re-engineered with an internal honeycomb metal that aims to dissipate heat, as well as a new chiclet style keyboard. Yet, despite its mostly metal build and onboard optical drive, it measures less than an inch thick and only weighs three pounds — yep, Toshiba is in fact claiming it’s the lightest 13.3-inch laptop ever. Rather unexpectedly, it doesn’t chicken out with ultra-low voltage power — instead there will be Intel Core i3, i5 and i7 versions. And the pricing is really enticing — the Core i3 version with 4GB of RAM and a 500GB hard drive will retail for $999, the i5 model with a 320GB 7,200rpm drive for $1,299, and an i7 / 128GB SSD combo for $1,599. And there will also be a blue colored Best Buy version with a Core i3 CPU, 4GB of RAM, and a 500GB hard drive for $899. Told you it was rising to the top of our list. These bad boys start shipping today, but if you need some more info before whipping out the plastic, hit the gallery below and the press release after the break.
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Toshiba Portégé R700 slides in with a thin design, Core power and an affordable pricetag originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Best Buy’s iPhone 4 launch manual leaked?
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Like the iPad launch guide before it, Best Buy’s iPhone 4 launch plan has just made its wily way into our collective lap, replete with loads of details on how your favorite blue-shirted electronics salespersons are going to be spending their Thursday morning. While we’ve yet to see any hot scoops inside its two dozen pages (aside from some confusing, contradictory gibberish about whether Best Buy will have iPhones at launch at all) we have learned that stores will open up previously suspended preorders on launch day, accepting reservation fees for devices that customers can pick up at a later date. What we’re not seeing here is anything about specific number of units, but there are various lines that caution against expecting much in the way of non-reserved phones — should there be any, the guide advises first come first serve once the store opens. In other words, it’s business as usual: call ahead and show up early. See some choice quotes from the playbook after the break.
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Best Buy’s iPhone 4 launch manual leaked? originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 19:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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