Best Buy is making mobility a little more affordable this holiday season with its special Sprint Android Smartphone offers. The electronics retailer announced today it will be offering two Sprint smartphones—the HTC Hero and Samsung Moment—for $99.99, including instant rebates, with new two year activation. Both phones were originally $179. This offer runs all throughout December too.
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Best Buy To Help Install Google Mobile on Phones
Leading electronics retailer Best Buy and announced a new partnership with Google that will have the company offering to help customers install Google Mobile App on smartphones they sell. To help convince customers Google Mobile App is something they want, Best Buy will be offering live demonstrations, and Best Buy staffers will assist in getting the software up and running on a new phone. Both the application and the installation service will be free.
Best Buy is Offering Motorola Droid Pre-orders
Best Buy Mobile, the mobile specialty retail unit of Best Buy Co. announced today it is offering Droid enthusiasts a chance to pre-order the new Motorola smartphone. Customers who purchase the smartphone at Best Buy Mobile can avoid the hassle of mail-in rebates with instant savings applied at the point of purchase. Best Buy says the Droid will retail for $199.99 with two-year activation.
Microsoft Copies Apple With Windows 7 Launch Surprises
I’m at the Windows 7 launch event as I write this, where Microsoft has clearly taken a page from Apple’s playbook. It has held back a number of things in the months running up to Windows 7, so the launch wouldn’t be a rehash of things we’ve seen for months. This is historically been one of the key marketing advantages Apple has: Because it doesn’t do public beta tests, it can release a product and surprise you with its new features. Granted, with Leopard and Snow Leopard, part of the “surprise” was how buggy they were.
Best Buy Packs Netflix into Store-Brand Blu-ray Players
Mega retailer Best Buy has been touting its own house brands alongside major consumer electronics makers like Sony, LG, Samsung, and Sharp…and now the company is looking to compete with some of the big players on features as well as price. Best Buy has just announced two new Blu-ray players in its Insignia house brand—the Insignia Advanced Series Blu-ray Player and the Insignia Connected Blu-ray Player—and they both support instant streaming of movies from Netflix.
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Best Buy Gets Behind iRex Digital Reader
The electronic reader marketplace keeps getting more crowded: electronics retailer Best Buy has announced it will varry the DR800SG iRex Digital Reader in its U.S. retail locations this fall for a retail price of $399. The iRex Reader will compete with electronic readers from the likes of Amazon and Sony, as well as the forthcoming digital reader from Plastic Logic. However, unlike the market-leading Amazon Kindle, the iRex will have a presence in one of America’s top electronic brick-and-mortar retailers, enabling customers to get a hands-on experience with the device before buying it.








