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Looking to save some coin on your tech purchases? Of course you are! In this round-up, we’ll run down a list of the freshest frugal buys, hand-picked with the help of the folks at Slickdeals. You’ll want to act fast, though, as many of these offerings won’t stick around long.

Would you rather do anything other than fight the droves of folks heading out to shop on Friday? Well, you’re in luck. We’ve got a fresh list of pre-Black Friday deals that are looking to lend a hand with some of that dreaded holiday shopping. Dell and Acer desktops are out of the gate first, followed by a Panasonic Lumix micro four thirds camera, an ASUS Transformer and a ViewSonic Projector. Head on past the break for all of the particulars before these links are gobbled up for good.

Continue reading Slickdeals’ best in tech for November 19th: desktops, ASUS Transformer, and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3

Filed under: Desktops, Cameras, Home Entertainment, Tablets, ASUS, Dell, Acer

Slickdeals’ best in tech for November 19th: desktops, ASUS Transformer, and Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF3 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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American carriers love to launch their device lines in bundles, and AT&T just proved the rule in style. Forget the LTE iPad mini — six other devices have shipped in one day, covering just about every category Big Blue offers. Want a Windows tablet? There’s a $500 ASUS VivoTab RT waiting for you. Smartphones? HTC’s $200 One X+ covers the high-end, while its $50 One VX and Samsung’s $100 Galaxy Express target the more frugal among us. Even shutterbugs and cutting-edge networkers can pick up a $500 Samsung Galaxy Camera or Novatel’s $50 MiFi Liberate hotspot. There’s no doubt that AT&T is cramming the channel full of new gadgets in the hopes of scooping up all the Black Friday sales it can, but we’ll forgive the slightly cynical strategy for the sake of a wider device selection.

Filed under: Cellphones, Cameras, Tablets, Networking, Mobile, Samsung, HTC, ASUS, AT&T

PSA: HTC One X+, five other devices from ASUS, HTC, Novatel and Samsung on sale at AT&T originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 16 Nov 2012 22:12:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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ASUS has made a strong case for the future of powerline networking with its new PL-X51P/PL-X52P powerline adapters (the PL-X51P is a single unit while the PL-X52P is a two-adapter bundle). They’re the first in the market to have four — that’s right, four — Gigabit LAN connectors each. If that wasn’t enough, one of them is actually a designated VIP port designed to push whatever’s connected to it to the top of the bandwidth priority list, presumably so you can speed up the download of that totally legal copy of Game of Thrones on one computer while smacking gnomes around in World of Warcraft on another. The adapters have an extra outlet each so you can still use the socket while an integrated noise filter helps compensate for powerline fluctuations. There’s also 128-bit AES encryption and ASUS promises speeds of up to 500Mbps. The model seen here looks to be Europe/Asia only due to the shape of the plug; we’ve yet to see one suitable for the US. Similarly, there’s no word on pricing, but we’ll be sure to update you with more information once we find out.

Continue reading ASUS powerline adapter has four Gigabit LAN connectors, one of which gets VIP treatment

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ASUS powerline adapter has four Gigabit LAN connectors, one of which gets VIP treatment originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Welcome to Tuesday evening everyone. We had a pretty big day, what with the reveal of the HTC DROID DNA and all. HTC announced that the DROID DNA will be arriving at Verizon on November 21, and we even managed to go hands-on with the device and its wireless charging dock. Of course, today was also the day that the Nexus 4 and the Nexus 10 became available on the Google Play Store. All but the 16GB Nexus 10 sold through pretty quickly, so we hope you got your hands on the device you wanted before Google put up the out of stock notices.

3G Nexus 7s started shipping earlier today, and we found out that Apple stores take in $6,000 in sales per square foot. IHS is predicting that the Wii U will sell 3.5 million units by the end of 2012, and Nokia has announced its new HERE mapping service to take on Google Maps. The release preview of Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 7 is now available to check out, and there seems to be a pretty major issue with some of the Black Ops II PC discs floating around out there.

Verizon and Motorola begin sending out OTA Jelly Bean updates to the DROID RAZR M today, while Google started installing its fiber network in Kansas City. BitQwik has released a search app for Evernote users, while Verizon said it will be launching 4G LTE in a bunch of new markets on November 15. mLogic unveiled a new PCIe expansion chassis that’s compatible with Thunderbolt, Android 4.2 has made its way to the Android Open Source Project, and Murfie and Sonos have teamed up to help you move your physical CDs into the cloud.

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm was finally given a release date earlier today, Vimeo has launched a new preview of its upcoming pay-to-view program, and we learned today that the ASUS VivoTab RT will be landing at AT&T later on this week. Finally tonight, we have a few originals for you to have a look at. Chris Davies tells us why the HTC DROID DNA should have been a Nexus device, while Chris Burns gives us his reviews of the Olympus Stylus XZ-2 and the Otaku Camera for iOS. That does it for tonight’s Evening Wrap-Up, enjoy the rest of your night folks!

SlashGear Evening Wrap-Up: November 13, 2012 is written by Eric Abent & originally posted on SlashGear.
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We’ve known for some time that AT&T would sell an LTE version of ASUS’ VivoTab RT tablet running Windows RT, but until today we just had the vague promise that it would arrive “in time for the holidays” (Christmas, Hanukkah, Flying Spaghetti Monster Day, take your pick). Well, now we know: AT&T just issued announced the 4G VivoTab RT will go on sale this week, on November 16th, with a list price of $500. For a limited time, at least, that price includes the keyboard dock you see pictured above. (The press release says it comes with a “Mobile dock with a keyboard and additional battery,” as if they’re separate pieces of hardware, but that’s just some sly wording: the keyboard dock has a battery built in.)

Additionally, AT&T is running a promotion in which users get $100 off the VivoTab RT (or any other AT&T tablet) after purchasing a Windows Phone handset. If you read the fine print in the press release at the link, you’ll see that AT&T is requiring a two-year agreement for both the phone and tablet. Buy the tablet unsubsidized, though, and you can add it to an existing data share plan for $10 and up per month. Either way, is it worth the added data fees? We’ll leave that to you, but we would suggest you pay particular attention to the software section of our review: this thing was awfully buggy when we tested it.

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AT&T to start selling the ASUS VivoTab RT on November 16th for $500, keyboard dock included for a limited time originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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