Apple has begun charging for and preparing to ship the first orders of the 42MM Space Black stainless steel, Modern Buckle, Leather Loop, and international stainless steel Link Bracelet orders, according to reports from several readers. Standard Apple Watch with Link Bracelet orders started arriving in the United States yesterday…
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1-year PlayStation Plus membership $40 shipped (Reg. $50) http://t.co/0UL1qq5ADm pic.twitter.com/5H1YVQDUIz
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The Amazon Instant Video app for iOS is getting a nice update today that brings streaming of content in HD as well as the ability to stream over a cellular connection. Previously users were only able to stream over WiFi, but will now be able to stream movies and TV shows on their LTE connection while on the go.
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GoPro HERO4 Silver Action Camera w/ free $50 Amazon gift card for $400 ($450 value) http://t.co/T8vZodMOJE pic.twitter.com/Yz6K2PHRJG
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Hurry! Get two Philips LED Light Bulbs for $4.97 (backordered, but finally avail for order!) http://t.co/QiNSIcu0Fx pic.twitter.com/vmnEQJlyqB
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iOttie Easy Flex 3 iPhone 6/Plus Car Mount $13.49 Prime shipped (Orig. $25), more http://t.co/5vRlKJ3nBo pic.twitter.com/MKhRTGSl91
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iOttie Easy View iPhone 6 windshield car mount $10 Prime shipped (Orig. $23), moreThe acclaimed 'Becoming Steve Jobs' Hardcover just dropped to $11.15 Prime Shipped http://t.co/vjiGG1gUli pic.twitter.com/yALx3ErP3A
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Get a free ice cream cone at Ben & Jerry’s today from 12-8pm!! #FreeConeDay http://t.co/mgwmfNIe59 pic.twitter.com/DVaXrnDg6M
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Back again! Samsung 850 PRO 256GB 2.5-inch Internal Solid State Drive $120 (Reg. $180) http://t.co/lgZB3l6SzZ pic.twitter.com/eLsHsiiedc
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Nintendo Wii U Deluxe w/ Super Mario 3D World & Nintendo Land $260 shipped (Reg. $300+) http://t.co/I9gcq8saPp pic.twitter.com/XH0A5gvDSh
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Adonit Jot Touch w/ Pixelpoint Bluetooth LE pressure sensitive stylus for iPad $50 (Reg. $100)
MacBook/iPad stickers (multiple options) Buy One, Get One Free: $4 shipped (Reg. $40)
Amazon flips the switch on free 4K streaming for Prime members, here are the 4K UHDTVs you want to watch it on
(Update: We may have gotten a bit too excited about this announcement. While Amazon hasn’t officially commented on the matter, you’ll likely need a UHDTV with HEVC decoding to watch Amazon’s 4K offerings.)
Its been said before, but 4K may finally be on the cusp of breaking through. Ultra high-definition TVs from major brands are dropping like crazy and Apple pushed out a 5K iMac just a few months ago. The hardware is there, but the content from a pricing and availability perspective is still lagging behind.
We took a step in the right direction when Netflix began offering 4K content, but quickly took a step back once we found out it came with strings attached.
Fast forward to this week. Amazon has promised there will not be any additional fees for Prime members for streaming 4K content. Before the end of this year anyone with a Prime account and a UHD display/TV will be able to gaze at Alpha House in beautiful 4K without forking over any additional cash. Selection will be extremely limited and filled with Amazon exclusives at first, but more titles will be continually added.
Of course, access to streaming 4K content is in addition to other Prime benefits like free 2-day shipping and unlimited photo storage. Sign up for a free Prime trial or student account.
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Amazon today announced a new hardware product called Echo. It’s essentially a speaker unit dedicated to being a voice-control system. It kind of sounds like Siri but in a speaker for a single room instead of in your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch.
You can set alarms, control music, ask about the weather, search the web, ask questions, and access local news. It streams content via Bluetooth and WiFi, and connects to the Fire Phone (if you have one, lol), iOS via the browser, Android, and desktop computers via the web. Instead of “Hey Siri,” you say “Alexa” to start speaking the device. You’ll need a Fire OS/Android device to take full advantage, but music should work fine via iOS.
The whole concept is very futuristic, and it’s unclear how beneficial this will be to people with voice-controlled phones. But, hey, this comes from the developers of a faux-3D phone and delivery drones, so this is not completely out of left field. The Echo is $99 for Amazon Prime users, $199 for everyone else, and (for some reason) you need an invitation to receive the honor to buy one of these untested things.
At your own risk, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NX53H2W/ref=tsm_1_tw_s_dm_ndg14u?tag=n003f1-20" target="_blank">stream U2’s album for free from Amazon Prime Music</a>
Now that Apple has finally wrapped up its U2 album giveaway to iTunes customers, a promotion that warranted its own removal tool named after the “Songs of Innocence” album, Amazon is picking up the record and giving it away to Amazon Prime subscribers through Prime Music… but not without taking a shot at Apple first.
While Apple rather aggressively added the U2 album to every iTunes library automatically (prompting automatic downloads if the setting was enabled) and upsetting many customers, Amazon took to Twitter today to promote their copy of the “deluxe” version of the album while taking a shot at Apple in the process. “Add it to your library—we won’t do it for you,” Amazon said in a tweet followed by a teasing winky face.
Not bad, Amazon, not bad.
For its part, Apple boasted last week that 81 million customers experienced the free U2 album, which Apple is now selling for $9.99, through iTunes, iTunes Radio, and Beats Music.
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Last Call updates:
Toshiba Canvio Connect 1TB USB 3.0 Portable Hard Drive: $50 shipped (orig. $130)
Dragon Dictate for Mac 4: $100 (Reg. $200) – ends today
Hootoo TripMate travel router w/ 6000mAh power bank $36 shipped (Reg. $50), $15 w/o
Small States: Waterfield Designs has the perfect bag for all of your gadgets, giveaway worth $329
Other new deals:
Our favorite charger: Anker 40W 5-Port Desktop USB Charger for $20 Prime shipped (orig. $66) http://t.co/PnajZ41v2Q pic.twitter.com/kzU0K52uf5
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The IMDb app for iPhone and iPad was updated today with a few notable new features. You can now view TV listings directly within the app, but the feature is initially limited to users in the US. Also new, listings will now tell you if the content is available on Amazon Prime and provide a link to starting playing a title directly in the Amazon Instant Video app (as pictured to the right).
Other new features in version 4.2 of the app include a redesigned showtimes page for iPhone and showtimes for upcoming movies being released in theatres directly from the title page.
Version 4.2 of the IMDb app is available on the App Store now for iPhone and iPad.
• US TV listings! See when and where you can watch things, wherever you are in the US.
• Amazon Prime availability! You can now tell at a glance when a title is available on Amazon Prime. If you have the Amazon Instant Video app installed already, tap to play!
• New showtimes page design on iPhone.
• For a movie coming out Friday (or any other day in the future and we know about it), you can get its showtimes right from the title page!
• Bug fixes, including a weird bug where your ratings history would show your most recently rated titles twice.
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Today’s can’t miss deals:
Last Call updates:
Free year of ShopRunner ($79 value), while all Prime members can use a workaround to avoid price increase
Games/Apps: Up to 82% off Rockstar titles (Mac/PC), 50% off Braid, Crazy Taxi FREE, Clear Day $3, Kingdom Rush sale, iOS freebies, more
Harman Kardon CL Precision On-Ear Headphones with Extended Bass $65 shipped (Reg. $250)
Other great deals from today:
Groupon offers 20% off purchases of Local Events & Activities w/ code PLAY20 http://t.co/yXBpjcVoQC
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This morning we reported that Amazon had trademarked FireTube, and the trademark could serve as a name for the company’s long-rumored TV product. Now, the WSJ follows up by claiming said device is on Amazon’s roadmap for the holiday season. Here are some of the details on the device:
Of course, the device could be shelved at the last minute, but given the uptake in reports about an Amazon TV device, today’s trademark discovery, and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s want to expand his company’s hardware portfolio, it seems likely that the device truly is in the imminent Amazon product pipeline.
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Calling all gamers! The Steam Summer Sale is now live, save up to 75% through July 22 http://t.co/TyxN4C807T
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Amazon Instant Video adds hundreds of ‘Miramax’ films including Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction… http://t.co/c4axM3T47Q
— 9to5Toys (@9to5toys) July 11, 2013
Following in the footsteps of Apple and Google attempts at the set-top-box market, Amazon is planning to release a set-top-box, according to Bloomberg.
They say the box will plug into TVs and give users access to Amazon’s expanding video offerings. Those include its a la carte Video on Demand store, which features newer films and TV shows, and its Instant Video service, which is free for subscribers to the Amazon Prime two-day shipping package. The Amazon set-top box will compete with similar products like the Roku, Apple TV and the Boxee Cloud DVR, along with more versatile devices like the Playstation 3 and the Xbox. An Amazon spokesperson declined to comment.
The device is reportedly being developed in Amazon’s Cupertino based labs and could launch this fall. The project is reportedly being spearheaded by a former Apple and Cisco employee:
The project is being run by Malachy Moynihan, a former vice president of emerging video products at Cisco (CSCO) who worked on the networking company’s various consumer video initiatives. Moynihan also spent nine years at Apple (AAPL) during the 1980s and 1990s.
Perhaps this future product is the reason that Apple and Amazon have no deal for Amazon content streaming on the Apple TV.
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Amazon has the highly rated SanDisk Cruzer 32 GB USB Flash Drive for $22.99 with free shipping on orders over $25 or with Amazon Prime. This drive is ruggedized and features a slide out USB interface.
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Just as Amazon’s media event begins in New York, serving as a launchpad for their inaugural tablet, Bloomberg spoils the announcement by publishing key pieces of information about the device. It will be called the Kindle Fire, as rumored, and will cost just $199, which is a pretty big deal.
The tablet is powered by a dual-core processor, has a seven-inch color display which responds to touch (just two fingers at once, though) and a “fresh and easy user interface” running on a forked Android version. You can read e-books on it, listen to music, watch movies and play games available for download through the Amazon Appstore for Android. Meanwhile, our own Seth Weintraub is on the scene in New York at Amazon’s press conference and here’s what he was able to glean from Amazon’s announcement…
A biggie: The device will come with a 60-day free trial of Amazon Prime (a $79 a year value) membership and pre-registered with your Amazon account, so you can literally use it right out of the box. Bad news: It has no cameras – not even a microphone. Heck, it even lacks 3G access so looks like the Fire will be a Wi-Fi affair only. The Kindle Fire is available at Amazon’s newly published Fire page and over at amazon.com/kindlefire. November 15 can’t come soon enough.
As for competition, check out this side-by-side specs comparison of Amazon’s Fire, Apple’s iPad 2 and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color, courtesy of The Verge.
That, plus this bit from the Bloomberg article:
Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos is betting he can leverage Amazon’s dominance in e-commerce to pose a real challenge to Apple’s iPad, after tablets from rivals such as Hewlett-Packard Co. and Research In Motion Ltd. have fallen short. Sales of Amazon’s electronic books, movies and music on the device may help make up for the narrower profit margins that are likely to result from the low price, said Brian Blair, an analyst at Wedge Partners Corp. in New York.
The analyst observes what all of us have known for a long time, that the Seattle-based online retailer has the most compelling ecosystem to take on Apple’s iTunes juggernaut. His quote plus three more Fire shots after the break.