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CompUSA sells Blackberry Bold, and you thought Best Buy was expensive

By: |Oct 28th, 2008 at 01:49PM
Filed Under: AT&T, BlackBerry, Exclusives, GSM, Handsets, HSDPA, Retail, RIM
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Just when you thought only a crazy person would pay $679.99 for a Blackberry Bold from Best Buy, CompUSA goes and ups the ante. Now, for the bargain price of $799.99, you can have your very own Unlocked BlackBerry Bold! Guess what? For just another $149.98 you can “protect your investment” (at $800, you might as well consider it a poor investment) by adding an extended service plan. Is this the sign of a weak economy and a weak dollar? How does CompUSA go about pricing a device like this when just...

Nokia N810: Twice as Fast, Half the Price*

By: |Jul 18th, 2008 at 11:41AM
Filed Under: Handsets, Linux, Nokia, Retail
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Oh sorry, we thought it was ok for anyone to make that false statement as long as there was an asterisk at the end. Hey, at least you won’t be paying added charges totaling more than the initial purchase price of the N810 over the course of a two-year contract! CompUSA (you remember them, right?) just dropped the price of Nokia’s latest Internet Tablet to a very reasonable $299. Wow! 4.2″ touchscreen display, nice big slide-out qwerty keyboard, open Linux OS, the ability to fire up Android o...