The Google Nest Hub Max, Echo show and more are on sale today

Posted on by Samuel Martinez

We keep on getting some amazing deals in the week before Father’s Day, so you may want to check them out. We start with the Google Next Hub Max, which can be yours for $199 after a $30 discount in its Chalk or Charcoal color option over at B&H Photo Video.

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Next up, we head over to Amazon, where we find the Amazon Echo Show with a 10.1-inch display for $179.99 after a $50 discount. You can choose between the Charcoal and the Sandstone color options.

Buy Amazon Echo Show

We also find the Amazon Fire 7 Tablet on sale for $39.99 after a $10 discount in its 16GB storage option. However, you can get more storage space with the 32GB option for $54.99 and save $15.

Buy Amazon Fire 7 Tablet

The Fire TV Stick is also getting a $10 discount, meaning you can get one for as little as $29.99, plus you get a 1-year complimentary subscription to Food Network Kitchen for free.

Buy Fire TV Stick

If you’re looking for an Apple Smart Keyboard for your 7th gen iPad or 3rd generation iPad Air, you can currently get one for $99 after a $60 discount. This Mart Keyboard is also compatible with the 10.5-inch iPad Pro.

Buy Apple Smart Keyboard

The Samsonite modern utility double shot laptop backpack is $45 off, which means you can get one for $59.99

Buy Samsonite Laptop Backpack

Last but not least, Fossil Men’s FB-01 Stainless Steel Hybrid Smartwatch is getting a $76 discount, which means you get 43% off its regular $175 price tag. You can currently get it for $99 in its Silver variant with black/green dial, or in its black color option.

Buy Fossil Men’s FB-01 Stainless Steel Hybrid Smartwatch

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Amazon Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 updated with hands-free Alexa

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The cheaper Fire tablets now can take in Alexa requests just by your asking them with your voice. Plug it in and they can even be asleep when you're poking them!

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Amazon Echo products, Fire tablets on big discounts only today

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Several popular Amazon items are 20 percent off or more today, March 22. Why? Amazon loves to keep that reputation up with its customers.

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The Pocketnow Black Friday 2017 deals watchlist

Posted on by Jules Wang

So many deals, so little time. But if it's just a few clicks away anyways, you can take a little time to do a little research. We have it all in one place.

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Amazon kicks off ‘Black Friday Deals Week’ in style with many Fire tabs and Kindles on sale

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Amazon's Echo smart speakers and Cloud Cam security camera are still available at list prices, but several Fire tablets and Kindles can be had for cheap.

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Amazon devices predictably headline the e-tailer’s list of early Black Friday deals

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Amazon already has a great Music Unlimited Black Friday deal available for new subscribers, with many discounted Echo and Fire devices also on the way.

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Staples has a number of iPad, Echo, Fire and Google Home deals coming this Black Friday

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

If you're looking for a decent discount on a 9.7-inch iPad, various Amazon gear or Google Home Mini, Staples is the place to go this Black Friday.

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Target’s Black Friday 2017 deals include iPhone 8 and Galaxy Note 8 gift cards, iPad discounts

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Get your Black Friday 2017 shopping lists ready, because Target is cooking up a massive sale on everything from iPhones to iPads to smart speakers.

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Already affordable Amazon Fire 7 and Fire HD 8 tablets get crazy cheap this week for Prime members

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The entry-level Amazon Fire 7 slate, normally available for $50, costs Prime subscribers just $35 this week, while the Fire HD 8 drops from $80 to $55.

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Amazon previews killer Prime Day deals on Echo, Kindle and Fire gear, but they’re only the beginning

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

Only a few more hours to go until the extended Amazon Prime Day discount extravaganza is on, with the Echo and Echo Dot naturally front and center.

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Amazon offers sneak peek at Black Friday deals to come on Fire and Echo gear

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

As always, you can probably rest assured knowing Amazon will not be mixing business with… its other business this holiday season, no doubt cooking up some of the best Black Friday deals around on both in-house and third-party products.

But also as always, expect Amazon’s homebrewed gadgets to receive the lion’s share of advertising in the two weeks leading up to the year’s busiest shopping day, as well as privileged spots on promotional banners and whatnot come November 25.

Make that November 24, as the already dirt-cheap Fire 7 tablet is apparently supposed to drop from its $50 MSRP to $33.33 on Thanksgiving Day. The same goes for the 7-incher’s slightly bigger, higher-end Fire HD 8 brother, slated to cost $60 after a $30 markdown on Black Friday 2016’s eve, while the “all-new” Fire TV Stick with Alexa voice remote shall take a $10 dive to $29.99.

Also on November 24, look for a heavily discounted “full-sized” Echo smart speaker setting you back $140 instead of $180, as well as a diminutive $40 Echo Dot ($10 off). Four days earlier, the Kindle Paperwhite e-reader will go down from $120 to $100, desperately trying to stay in the spotlight as even tablets near obsolescence.

All in all, nothing earth-shattering here, especially after Best Buy, Walmart or Target’s BF previews, but this is merely a taste of a looming Amazon.com bargain feast.

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Staples has solid Black Friday deals on Amazon gear, Surface Pro 4 and more in the pipeline

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

And so it begins. The first major US retailer to voluntarily reveal its upcoming Black Friday deal bonanza is Staples, with special online sales scheduled to start Thursday, November 24, followed by the typical brick and mortar store stampede at 6 am on Friday the 25th.

Supplies will obviously be limited, customers can only buy one unit of each heavily discounted item, and if you prefer, you can order on the web during your festive Thanksgiving dinner, then swing by a physical location for in-person pickup anytime on Friday.

You’re looking at countless marked-down PCs, laptops, monitors, printers, accessories, and even office chairs here, but as far as our mobile-focused readership is concerned, possibly the most compelling BF 2016 bargains are to include $33.33 Amazon Fire 7 and $80 Fire HD 8 tablets.

A $100 Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7.0 or $130 Tab A 8.0, reduced from their regular list prices of $150 and $200 respectively, don’t sound half bad either. And then you have the convertible Surface Pro 4 Windows 10 machine Microsoft just “forgot” to upgrade, due for a hefty $200 rebate off its $1,000 MSRP with a Core i5 processor, 4GB RAM and 128GB SSD in tow.

Finally, Staples intends to allow you to liven up the living room by paying very little for the Amazon Echo Dot smart speaker ($40 instead of $50), Fire TV Stick ($30 instead of $40), or second-gen Google Chromecast ($25, not $35).

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Apple helms, Amazon runs up, convertibles try to turn around sinking ship of tablets

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After its dismal growth reading on smartphone shipments, market research firm IDC has released both its quarterly shipment reports for tablets and the trend line continues groundward.39.6 million tablets went across the world last quarter with 87.6 percent of them being regular slate tablets — plenty of them in the form of Apple’s older iPads and Amazon’s

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When outrage pays off: Amazon will soon bring back Fire OS encryption

Posted on by Adrian Diaconescu

While owners of low-cost Fire tablets aren’t routinely characterized as extremely tech-savvy, and Amazon’s argument for ditching full disk encryption probably held up, the timing of the security-shrinking move wasn’t the wisest.Even if no one actually uses the feature, it feels weird to just give it up voluntarily, without so much as a heads up, when other companies’ execs are literally risking their freedom to protect it on every single iDevice ...

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Tablet shipments phab and flabby for Q4 2015

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There are ups and downs to be had in the tablet market. Unfortunately, the long-range outlook is still down.Digitimes tracked several US-based tablet sellers and has recorded over 65.3 million shipments during the holiday quarter with Apple’s iPad Air 2 chipping in 16.1 million units alone. The whole pie represents a 24 percent increase from Q3, but a 14 percent drop year-over-year.29 million ...

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