Enlarge Image GameBeat Everyone knows that modern mobile phones offer great gaming on the go, but certain games need more than flat, unresponsive onscreen controls. Shooters, platformers, fighting games, racing games — for the best possible experience, you need a real, handheld controller. You can buy one, of course; they come in all shapes and …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Best Buy As you know, I’m all about cheap tablets. The cheaper, the better, especially if you don’t need them to do any heavy lifting. But what if you’re looking for a tablet …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge ImageThe high-tech replacement for your lame desk lamp. TaoTronics Hey, hey, it’s contest time! While I’m off doing the Rosh Hashanah thing today, I leave you with a giveaway that will give …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Quick update regarding yesterday’s deal: Although the refurbished Roku Streaming Stick is sold out, you can still get a $10 credit to use on anything Efurb sells (now or in the future). Likewise, …
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The Pebble Time and especially Pebble Time Steel smartwatches have been on sale for only a short while, but the company has already rolled out a number of updates — including a fairly significant one today. Pebble’s firmware 3.4 release adds two new features: Quiet Time and Stand-By Mode. Both are worth using, and both have the potential to extend …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge Image Roku Regular Cheapskate readers (“cheeps,” as I like to call them) know that I’m partial to refurbished goods, especially those that are nearly indistinguishable from new. Ah, but isn’t there too …
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Enlarge Image PureGear Back in May I wrote about the Halo Back, an ingenious-sounding iPhone screen protector with a twist: You could tap the bottom left corner of the glass and it would magically reproduce the tap at the top, the idea being to make big-screen iPhones easier to navigate one-handed. Halo Back was a successfully funded Kickstarter project — …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge Image Raise your hand if you’ve been in this situation: It’s party time, so you queue up your favorite Pandora playlist. Five songs in, suddenly you’re hearing commercials. How embarrassing! The solution, …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Is the scanner dead, or just evolving? While you chew on that, allow me to share this. For a limited time, and while supplies last, StackSocial has the Doxie Go Wi-Fi scanner for …
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CNET’s Cheapskate scours the Web for great deals on PCs, phones, gadgets and much more. Questions about the Cheapskate blog? Find the answers on our FAQ page. Enlarge Image iClever Not to repeat myself, but you know those little USB wall plugs you’ve been hoarding over the years? Time to toss ’em out. They don’t supply nearly enough juice for …
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