Good ol’ Best Buy; droppin’ prices and takin’ names, week after week. Though I am not 100% sure how successful they have been with their “Free Phone Friday” campaign, it must be doing well if it returns week after week, with periodic breaks in between. This week’s featured “free” phones are the BlackBerry Bold 9780 [...]

It’s been a long time coming, but webOS fanatics North of the 49th finally have the opportunity to get their hands on the HP TouchPad, which is now officially on sale. Running webOS 3.0, the TouchPad features a 9.7″ XGA display, 1.2GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor, 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera, and Wi-Fi. The 16GB model retails [...]

Another pinnacle has been hit. Any of you who have patiently waited for the Torch 9800 to hit $0 on a 3-year term so you could pick it up, can be excited to know that day has come. Best Buy has reactivated their notorious “Free Phone Friday” campaign for the month of July with the [...]

We’ve all asked it umpteen times when doing an upgrade: “Can I trade back my old phone”? For the most part the retail person (myself formerly included) would scoff at the idea of taking back an old beat up phone, claiming insensitively “whadda I need that for”? Well, friends, Fido heard your cries, and have [...]

  There isn’t much that can REALLY excite me on a Monday morning, but news like this sure does the trick. Last week we reported that HP would be dropping the forthcoming TouchPad in Canada this summer, but other than that not much else was known about it - or the Pre 3 for that [...]

Nothing makes me happier than hearing news about this tablet and now that I know when to expect it, my day has been made a tad bit brighter. HP announced today via their blog that the webOS wonder we know as the TouchPad is set to launch this July in Canada, with a tentative date [...]

During the Google I/O conference last month one of the biggest announcements - and giveaways - was the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all its Honeycomb powered glory. Needless to say, those not in attendance were left with a bit of envy wondering how/when they could get their hands on it as well. Then the [...]

Last week, we told you about Best Buy Canada’s Free Phone Friday deal. This week is the last week of the Free Phone Friday fun as it is only a month of May thing and Best Buy sure is ending this special set of deals in style! In case you don’t remember the details, let’s [...]

All this month Best Buy Canada is offering a specially priced - FREE - phone every Friday when you sign a new 3 year contract. It changes every week and we are happy to be the ones to bring you the inside scoop earlier than anyone else. Tomorrow, when you sign up for a 3 year [...]

Best Buy has developed some notoriety over the years for not only announcing unreleased device prices long before the respective carriers do, but also launching some ridiculous in-store promo’s forcing us impulse buyers to flock — and spend- in swarms. Amongst the many promo’s launched, one of the most popular has always been their “Free [...]