Welp, it’s a wrap. Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 are solidly in the rear-view mirror, and all those great sales on Chromecast, Roku, Nvidia Shield TV and most Fire TV streamers are over too. They’ve assumed their standard pricing, starting at $30 for the Roku Express and $35 for Chromecast and others. Deal hunters …
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It’s Wednesday, so the big Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 sales are mostly gone. That goes for most retailers, including Target, but a few nice deals are still available today at Target.com. Most of them involve discounts on the Google Home Mini smart speaker with Google Assistant. There’s also a stray Bose bluetooth speaker deal still around. Let’s take …
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Costco really wants to get members into its big club stores, but that doesn’t mean it’s sitting out the biggest online shopping day of the year. Some of Costco’s best deals are still going strong online this Cyber Monday. They include a higher-end configuration of the Lenovo Flex 5 tablet, an iPad for $280 and your choice of a 27-inch …
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Update Tuesday November 27, 2018: Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 are over, and all of the featured deals on this page are either sold out or pricing has returned to previous levels. This article will not be further updated. As of this writing some deals are still available, but if you’re looking to buy a new TV now, the …
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Black Friday is packed with deep discounts on TVs, and I predicted sweet sale prices on the best-performing televisions of all: LG’s OLED TVs. I was wrong. The good news is that LG’s official Black Friday sale is going on now, and its 2018 OLED TVs are at their lowest prices yet. That includes the best TV I’ve ever tested, the OLEDC8P …
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Get ready for some sweet bargains on TVs. No, I’m not talking about no-name 32-inch junkers for $99 that require 5 a.m. fisticuffs at Wal-Mart. I’m talking about TVs that are actually good. On sale for the best prices of the year. No matter how much you’re looking to spend on a new TV — and whether you prefer going …
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Starting today, you can ask your Google speaker to control Roku. Roku’s popular streamers and smart TVs now have the ability to take commands from Google Assistant. That means a Google Home, Google Home Mini or Google Home Hub, for example, can control Rokus using “OK Google” voice commands from across the room. People with Roku streamers and a compatible Assistant gadget …
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Android TV is taking another stab at the living room. Unlike the $35 Google Chromecast, Google’s big-screen Android TV operating system appears only on relatively expensive devices, namely the $200 Nvidia Shield and Sony TVs, for example. Today Google aims to close the price gap a bit by building Android TV into a new device. The Xiaomi Mi Box S …
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Cracked screen? Water damage? Camera problem? If your Pixel phone has a repair issue that’s not covered by warranty, the Google Store now has an official place to get it fixed. The mail-in Repair Center is now open. If your Pixel has a problem you can enter its unique identification number — known as an IMEI, similar to a car’s …
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I have a secret pride. Android turned 10 years old this week, and I was one of the first people in the entire world to use it. In fact, the very first Android phone ever was my first smartphone, too — and I’ve never wavered in my Android loyalty since. That may not seem like a big deal now Android …
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