Microsoft Arc Keyboard hands-on
February 3, 2010
Of course, most folks will choose function over form when it comes to a keyboard, and in that respect the Arc Keyboard is a bit of a mixed bag.
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Microsoft Arc Keyboard hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Netgear’s Push2TV wireless TV adapter caught nonchalantly hanging out in the wild
January 13, 2010
Interested in getting prepared for all your Wireless Display (WiDi) needs? Looks like Netgear’s Push2TV wireless TV adapter is already on the shelves of at least one Best Buy, right in front of a $99 price tag that matches the press release from before. The back of the box photo, seen after the break, doesn’t shed any new light on the device. Unless you’re really into (near term) future proofing of your wireless display needs, it might be best to wait for a few more options when it comes to fancy-schmancy new compatible machines.
[Thanks, Colin]
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Netgear’s Push2TV wireless TV adapter caught nonchalantly hanging out in the wild originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft debuts Arc Keyboard, exclusive to Best Buy
January 7, 2010
Microsoft debuts Arc Keyboard, exclusive to Best Buy originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Best Buy’s $40 ‘pre-optimization’ determined to be worthless, iPhone earbuds determined to be white
January 5, 2010
Best Buy’s $40 ‘pre-optimization’ determined to be worthless, iPhone earbuds determined to be white originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:35:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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ASUS Eee PC 1201HA now on sale in the US
November 29, 2009
A little later than mid-November, sure, but ASUS has finally unleashed to the US masses its 12.1-inch Eee PC 1201HA. Available at Best Buy for a penny under $330, it’s got all the standard affairs: 1.33GHz Intel Atom Z520, 1GB RAM upgradeable to 2GB, 160GB HDD, WiFi, and a touted 6 hour, 38 minute battery life. The catch here is Windows XP — sorry 7 lovers, but if you’re feeling particularly adventurous, there’s always Chrome OS.
ASUS Eee PC 1201HA now on sale in the US originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HTC Hero, Samsung Moment now $100 on Sprint courtesy of Best Buy
November 16, 2009
Leaning back and forth between the the $100 HTC Eris on Verizon and the $179 HTC Hero on Sprint? Well, your decision just got a bit more difficult, as Best Buy has now kicked off a new holiday promotion that’ll net you a chin-less Sprint Hero for the same hundred bucks as Verizon’s Eris. If you prefer, you can also now snag a Samsung Moment for the same price, but each will of course have to be paired with a new two-year activation, and you’ll have to take the plunge before the end of December — although there’s at least a decent chance there will be another discount / price drop by the time this one ends.
[Thanks, Daniel]
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HTC Hero, Samsung Moment now $100 on Sprint courtesy of Best Buy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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FLO TV Personal Television now on sale for $250, should be in cereal boxes soon
November 13, 2009
Look, we fully understand that someone, somewhere put a lot of time and effort into designing a $250 handheld that does nothing but watch pixelated mobile TV for a lofty per-month price, but seriously, there has to be better uses of one’s time. The 3.5-inch FLO TV Personal Television is on sale today at Amazon, Best Buy and RadioShack, though we suspect that the $249.99 up front price will probably keep most potential buyers at bay. Six months of service are included, but afterwards you’ll be paying at least $8.99 per month (and a rate that low requires a three-year contract) to keep the signals flowing. If we’re being honest, this thing is still more useful than Celio’s REDFLY, but that sure ain’t sayin’ much.
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FLO TV Personal Television now on sale for $250, should be in cereal boxes soon originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Best Buy offering DROID pre-orders as of today, automates the mail-in rebate
October 29, 2009
In the best sort of tradition, Best Buy Mobile has gone for a repeat of its Palm Pre offering and is offering a $299 phone, the Motorola DROID, in this case, at $199 thanks to the automation of a mail-in rebate you’d have to actually “mail in” if you were to purchase the handset straight from the carrier. Best Buy also seems to be the first place to offer pre-orders of the phone, so if you’re worried about a sell out or just generally averse to affixing stamps to things, Best Buy appears to have you covered.
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Best Buy offering DROID pre-orders as of today, automates the mail-in rebate originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Walmart to rival Best Buy’s Geek Squad with own in-home install crew
October 25, 2009
We’ve never truly been at ease with that Geek Squad crowd. Something about “the people” they hang with and “the places” they hang at just worries us, so we’re pretty thrilled to see another mega-corp stepping in to take the place of the now-deceased Circuit City FireDog crew. Starting sometime before the holiday season, Wally World will be partnering with N.E.W. Customer Service Companies in order to offer in-home installation to customers buying anything from a wireless router to a HTIB. The service plans will be sold on prepaid cards ranging from $99 to $399 in value, and each install includes a “preliminary consultation and a tutorial after installation is completed.” Granted, it may be a bit tough to get the dude looking to spend $5 on a new plasma to spring for such a service, but hey, it’s not like competition is a bad thing.
[Via Hot Hardware]
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Walmart to rival Best Buy’s Geek Squad with own in-home install crew originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Insignia’s Little Buddy Child Tracker encourages kids to run away, disown parents
October 23, 2009
With a name like “Little Buddy Child Tracker,” you know this thing has to be awful, right? Insignia, Best Buy’s house brand, has just listed an incredibly invasive and humiliating new GPS tracker on its site, and rather than promoting it as just that, the marketing brains have decided it best to aim this at paranoid mums and dads who’ve done such a poor job raising their offspring that they can’t even trust ‘em to trek out on their own. All sensationalism aside, there’s little Insignia can say or do to remedy the product labeling job, but if you’re okay with shoving this extra-small stick into your youngster’s lunch box, you can keep tabs on his / her exact location and have alerts sent to you via SMS if they leave a designated area. Just make sure they don’t ever know that you were responsible for planting this thing on their person, else you can forget about junior footing those nursing home bills when the time comes.
[Via Navigadget]
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Insignia’s Little Buddy Child Tracker encourages kids to run away, disown parents originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Rocketfish wireless whole home audio system cuts the cord on all your speakers
October 23, 2009
Anyone stumbling into a Best Buy looking for some sort of wireless speaker solution has probably been ushered over to the Rocketfish section, but up until now, only a few devices have been available. Now, the Best Buy staple is introducing an all-encompassing system that aims to cut the (speaker) cable to all of your speakers. The wireless whole home audio system, which is obviously only available at the yellow-tagged retailer, is comprised of a Wireless Amplified Audio Receiver, a Wireless Sender / Receiver, a Wireless Outdoor Speaker and a Wireless HD Audio Starter Kit, which includes both a sender and receiver. The whole rig is designed to work with standard connections for speaker line and line level inputs, so most any speaker assortment should play nice. All told, the devices combined can send up to five sources to nine receivers throughout the home, but not surprisingly, there’s no mention made of the presumably lofty price tag.
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Rocketfish wireless whole home audio system cuts the cord on all your speakers originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Geek Squad visa application approved, Best Buy opening stores in UK
October 21, 2009
We know you’re worried what will happen; we saw that Liam Neeson movie too, the one where the daughter goes abroad and gets kidnapped and only after killing 351 people does he get her back. Taking trips to Europe can be risky, but our Best Buy is old enough and responsible and can take care of itself, so we’re okay with it taking a trip to the UK next year… even though we don’t know exactly where it’ll be landing. It’s been talking about going for so long it’d be a shame to say no now. Yes, it’ll be packing its blue shirts and yellow name tags so everyone will know what it is, and once it gets there sometime next year we’re sure it’ll call and tell us which franchise location will be first. So until then just try not to worry — and maybe sign it up for some self defense classes or something.
[Thanks, Adam]
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Geek Squad visa application approved, Best Buy opening stores in UK originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Western Digital WD TV Live HD media player gets official
October 13, 2009
Update: “That’s WiFi ready.” As in “WiFi adapter sold separately.”
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Western Digital WD TV Live HD media player gets official originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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iRex DR800SG e-reader brings global 3G downloads — Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, and Verizon partnerships
September 23, 2009
Get ready to add another big time e-reader partnership to the list: iRex is set to announce later today a deal that will bring its latest DR800SG E-Ink slab to Best Buy with unlimited Verizon 3G data on board. The $399 e-reader with 8.1-inch touchscreen arrives as rumored with the ability to wirelessly download digital books from Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore in addition to over 1,100 newspapers from Newspapers Direct — it’ll also handle any books downloadable in the ePub format. The 3G goodness comes via a Gobi radio from Qualcomm — right, that means HSDPA data too, allowing owners to download data while traveling abroad. Take that Kindle. The DR800SG is expected to arrive in US Best Buy stores next month. We’ll be going hands-on with it later today where we’ll have plenty of pics and the full suite of specs.
[Thanks, Tom]
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iRex DR800SG e-reader brings global 3G downloads — Best Buy, Barnes & Noble, and Verizon partnerships originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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$199 Nintendo Wii spotted in Best Buy ad?
September 18, 2009
First there was an alleged Toys R Us ad, and now we’ve caught wind of what’s claimed to be a Best Buy spot showing the Nintendo Wii getting that long-desired $50 price drop, down just below the two Benjamin mark. Easily Photoshopped image? You betcha, so we’ll just have to play wait-and-see as the evidence seems to mount up — it’s been a long time coming, after all, we wouldn’t be that surprised given the oncoming holiday season and the recent downward trend in demand.
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$199 Nintendo Wii spotted in Best Buy ad? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Zune HD sold early, still unusable until tomorrow
September 14, 2009
See that there? That’s a shiny new 16GB Zune HD, which isn’t supposed to ship until September 15th. Why bother to honor the street date? Ask the cool cats at the Fort Myers, Florida Best Buy, who has no qualms selling our tipster a unit over the weekend. At the time, no 32GB versions were available, and even now, this 16GB unit won’t sync with one’s PC or do much of anything useful. Of course, Microsoft’s pretty much shutting itself down tonight as it readies a new software update, so we suspect all systems will be go within the next 24 hours. While we’re on the topic, has anyone else managed to snag a Zune HD early?
[Thanks, Everett]
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Zune HD sold early, still unusable until tomorrow originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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58 percent of salespeople recommend Samsung HDTVs, 100 percent like big commission checks
September 11, 2009
We’re sure that none of our stunningly attractive, gadget-expert readers would ever think about walking into an electronics retailer and asking the opinion of the teenagers in blue shirts and name tags. But, we also know that there are plenty of other folks out there who do, and when they do they’re told to buy Samsung HDTVs a whopping 58 percent of the time. There’s certainly nothing wrong with Samsung sets, but there are certainly plenty of options out there, too. These numbers come from the always quotable J.D. Power and Associates, which also found that salespeople are becoming less likely to recommend LCD sets over plasma sets, which goes against the industry trend. We’d never hope to be able to get inside the head of one of those doing the recommending, but as always we would recommend reading a few reviews and going to the store to see what you like best — after you ask to turn down the lights and use the right cables, of course.
[Via PC World]
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58 percent of salespeople recommend Samsung HDTVs, 100 percent like big commission checks originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Microsoft’s training materials teach Best Buy employees how to trash Linux
September 8, 2009
Look, nobody’s saying Linux is perfect for every consumer (or even most), but Microsoft’s “training material” for Best Buy employees casts the open source operating system in a bit of a bad light — and isn’t exactly accurate. A few of the humorous tidbits in the Linux comparison guide include mentioning World of Warcraft as incompatible with Linux (despite great support for it under WINE), calling Linux’s safety reputation a “myth,” and describing Linux updates and upgrades as difficult and time consuming. The availability of Windows Live Essentials as a “free download” is also quite laughable — Linux has endless free alternatives to Microsoft’s Live Essentials, and many of them are better than what Microsoft offers. Not to say there hasn’t been the odd consumer that was burned by purchasing a Linux-running netbook, but we’d say there are enough tangible benefits to Windows for Microsoft to avoid misinformation when talking down the open source competition.
[Via technabob]
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Microsoft’s training materials teach Best Buy employees how to trash Linux originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Sprint’s HTC Hero getting Best Buy presale on September 13?
August 26, 2009
Alright, look, we seriously have enough evidence here on our desk to put Sprint away for life convince even the most jaded naysayer that Sprint’s got a Hero on the way. It’s happening, end of story — but when, where, and how much? We don’t have the complete picture yet beyond suggestions of an October window, but we’ve just been tipped off here that Best Buy Mobile locations will be taking $50 deposits for the phone starting on September 13 with an SKU of 9510013. Whether the phone will be popular enough to warrant relieving yourself of $50 a month (or more) ahead of time is unclear — especially with the InstinctQ in the pipe — but at least it looks like you’ll have the option.
[Thanks, anonymous tipster]
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Sprint’s HTC Hero getting Best Buy presale on September 13? originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 23:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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You know those rumored Zune Apps and Games? They have been confirmed!
August 23, 2009
Rejoice Zune HD users! Apps will be coming to the Tegra based powerful device. A video has been uploaded by a person trying out the Zune HD and finding out the Apps category in the Marketplace which is further confirmed by the other person demoing it. That person doesn’t reply when asked about an SDK though. Plus we have no idea on where they would be installed. My guess is an App link in the main menu when one is installed or after a software update because strangely, Microsoft is still not advertising Apps as a feature.
Here’s a possible picture of the Zune 4.0 software (on the left) which seems to have learned some tricks from Windows Media Center. See the details below, no mention of apps there. But if someone now asks if your Zune HD can do apps, just say “Hell yeah it will”!
(Thanks to Clubdirthill on Twitter for his tweets )
Update: Just found this on Engadget, a Twitter user has posted a picture of the Zune HD box. As you can see it says games at the bottom. Chalk it down as another reason to get a Zune HD! 
