Apple Store Gift Cards for all the big purchases this Black Friday

Apple is giving gift cards of up to $200 back for its customers who buy some of its older iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and Macs.

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Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 goes official with Snapdragon 660 SoC, 16:10 screen, low-cost LTE option

Priced at the rough equivalent of $170 and up, the Snapdragon 660-powered Xiaomi Mi Pad 4 can be purchased for a measly $230 or so with LTE... in China.

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If you hurry, you can still get one of Best Buy’s many discounted phones for Memorial Day

What better way to celebrate Memorial Day than purchasing a deeply discounted unlocked Samsung Galaxy Note 8, Sony Xperia XZ Premium or Asus ZenFone 3 Zoom from Best Buy?

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Buy any new iPhone from T-Mobile for Mother’s Day, and get a half-off Apple Watch Series 3

You'll have to jump through a few hoops and purchase a new iPhone with an Equipment Installment Plan, but the Apple Watch Series 3 can be yours at a big discount for a limited time.

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Pre-weekend sale at Best Buy for Apple’s iPhones, MacBooks, wireless headphones

Dozens of dollars to hundreds in savings are up for grabs on the MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iPhone 8, iPhone X, 10.5-inch iPad Pro and more until Sunday.

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Apple’s ‘one-day shopping event’ is on: gift cards galore for select iPhones and iPads

Apple's official Black Friday 2017 deals are disguised as a generic "one-day shopping event", including modest gift cards for select iDevice purchases.

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Best Buy reveals huge list of sweet Black Friday deals, and many of them are already live

Best Buy has more Black Friday 2017 deals incoming than we can handle, so it's certainly nice that hundreds of discounts are also offered early.

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Best Buy is discounting a selection of Apple gear and more for 50 hours, iPhone SE deal already on

Best Buy is celebrating 51 years with 50 hours of "Black Friday-like" deals on iPhones, iPads and more, with the prepaid SE already discounted to $150.

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Huawei Watch 2, previous-gen iPhones and iPads lead Best Buy’s list of Black Friday in July deals

Why wait until November to score hefty discounts on the iPhone 6s, iPad Pros, as well as the Huawei Watch 2? Best Buy has you covered right now.

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Spring 2017 Apple Watch band collection sees daylight, two old iPads kick the bucket

You can now pair the fall 2016-refreshed Apple Watch with a multitude of new standalone bands, including Nike Sport and striped Woven Nylon models.

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Apple discreetly unveils new 9.7-inch iPad, red iPhone 7, iPad mini 4 and iPhone SE with more storage

A $329 and up "new" 9.7-inch iPad, red iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, as well as hoarder-friendly iPhone SE and iPad mini 4 variants, are out now.

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That 10.5-inch next-gen iPad Pro is essentially confirmed for a launch… someday

It could arrive to market in April, May or even June, alongside two or three other iOS tablets, but this 2017 iPad Pro likely sports a 10.5-inch display.

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Apple’s Black Friday ‘shopping event’ is all about gift cards for old gear

You weren’t really expecting free latest-generation iPhones straight from on and offline Apple Stores, right? If you were, you must not know who you’re dealing with here. This is a profit-hungry company that didn’t even hold a Black Friday sale last year, so we should probably be thankful they’re now offering these modest complimentary gift cards with select iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Apple TV purchases.

Namely, up to $50 coupons are to be had stateside if you’re in the market for a SIM-free iPhone SE, 6s or 6s Plus today only, up to $100 gifts on all available iPad models, including Pros, the Air 2 and Mini 4, a flat $25 freebie for the Apple Watch Series 1 family, $150 with “select” Macs (no Touch Bar variant), and $25 when you buy an Apple TV.

Extremely similar one-day deals are on across a number of other territories, like Canada or Australia, and it goes without saying you can save a lot more through third-party retailers or carriers. For instance, T-Mobile and Verizon on American shores. Not to mention the avalanche of direct iPad markdowns at Best Buy, Walmart, Target and so on. Still, if you absolutely have to do your shopping at Apple, up to $150 gift cards are better than nothing, we guess.

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Fresh speculation calls for early 2017 releases of 10.5 and low-cost 9.7-inch iPads

They say you should never mess with a winning formula. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But, much like Android tablets, Apple iPads have stopped winning a while back, which is why the 7.9-inch Mini 4 and 12.9-inch first-gen Pro unveiled last fall didn’t get sequels this year.

Cupertino had bigger fish to fry, trying to rejuvenate product rosters that still stand a chance of surviving, thriving or even returning to healthy growth. iPads aren’t dead and buried either though, at least not yet, with another (semi-) reliable source anticipating a Q1 2017 series revival after a production start next month.

What insiders can’t agree on is the number of new iOS slates in the pipeline, and especially their screen sizes. “Taiwan-based supply chain makers” now suggest a 10.5-incher, not 10.1 or 10.9-er, is incoming to cater to the US enterprise and education sectors with a larger display than the 9.7-incher and lower price than the 12.9-inch Pro.

But if affordability is one of the newbie’s selling points, a bezelless design begins to feel like a major stretch. With an as-yet unreleased A10X processor inside, the 10.5-inch iPad (Pro?) is expected to ship roughly two million units during its first partial quarter in stores, followed by 5-6M in Q2.

The next-gen 12.9-inch iPad Pro should pack the same ultra-high-end homebrewed chip, while an Android-competing “lower-price” new version of the 9.7-incher may stick with the A9X. No words on a 7.9-inch Mini or Mini Pro upgrade this time around.

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