Hasta La Gadget!

Where’s the cheapest place to pick up an iPhone 4 these days? For the next week or so, that title belongs to Walmart offshoot Sam’s Club. You can get the latest version of Apple’s handset for $147, according to information obtained by Engadget–that’s a full $2 less than you would pay for the same handset over at Radio Shack.

The deal on the 16GB handset goes until Christmas day. The store is also offering up its predecessor, the iPhone 3Gs for a dirt cheap $47, marking a $42 price drop for both phones.

Probably a little late for the Christmas crowd, but 9 to 5 Mac managed to snag an early peak at a new Best Buy ad offering up a free MiFi with the purchase of an iPad. Pretty sweet deal, if you’re in the market for both of those things–you’ll save $130 off of Verizon’s asking price.

Of course, nothing is ever truly free, when it comes to mobile hardware–you’ll have to sign a two-year contract with either AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon. If you’re still down, you’ve got until January 2nd, to take advantage of the deal.

Apple still controls 66.3 of the online music market, according to new numbers from analyst firm NPD. Amazon is in second place–a distant second at 13.3 percent of the market, all of this despite an aggressive push from sites like Amazon and Walmart.com to topple iTunes’ strangle hold on the industry.

Among Amazon’s approaches are deep discounts on records, like the new album from Kayne West, which sold for $4.99 its first week–less than half of Apple’s asking price. Great for consumers, but artists seem less than enthused. The Wall Street Journal quotes the Fleet Foxes’ Twitter feed, “Been working for nine months on something that will sell for 3.99 on Amazon MP3. That’s about the price of a whoopie cushion.”

Yowtch.

Apple actually managed to increase its market share in 2010, moving up from 63.2 percent. Amazon increased as well, moving up from 11 percent.

EA is having a downright massive sale on iPhone apps this week, in celebration of the coming holiday. The gaming giant has discounted more than 70 iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad apps to $0.99 down from prices ranging between $1.99 and $7.99.

There are a of familiar titles on this. Here are a few choice picks:

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Need For Speed Hot Pursuit
NBA Elite 11
Fifa 11
Madden NFL 11
Tiger Woods PGA Tour
The Sims 3
Spore Creatures
Monopoly
Risk: The Official Game
Clue
Scrabble
The Simpsons Arcade
Wolfenstein RPG
Tetris
American Idol: The Game
Littlest Pet Shop

You can find a more complete list of the games over at Touch Arcade. Looks like the holiday push is paying off for EA. The company is currently dominating the iTunes app sales list between its discounts and those perennial favorite Angry Birds.

Apple will be kicking off the new year in style, with the launch of its much anticipated Mac App Store, a desktop-based counterpart to its ultra-successful iPhone and iPad stores. The new storefront will be available in 90 countries and will feature applications from a wide variety of categories, including Games, Productivity, Utilities, Education, Design, and Lifestyle.

Said CEO Steve Jobs in an announcement that went out this morning, “The App Store revolutionized mobile apps. We hope to do the same for PC apps with the Mac App Store by making finding and buying PC apps easy and fun. We can’t wait to get started on January 6.”

Note the use of the word “PC.” Aw, how the times have changed.

The Mac store will offer most of the familiar features, including download charts, ratings and reviews, and one-click purchasing. Once downloaded, apps can be run on multiple Macs when signed into your account. The store is available as a free update to Mac owners with Snow Leopard installed.

Apple is offering up 70 percent of download revenue to developers.