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If you were thinking of getting a Red Scarlet-X 4K baby cinema cam for that pet film feature, but were on the fence because, well, $11,900 is a lot of cash — there’s good news. The company just announced they would be selling “a whole truckload of Scarlets” for $7,100 each instead, as they had been used on a rental for a “pretty special 3 second shot.” As such, the camera body has less than a minute of recording time, and would come with an SSD module, Canon mount and full warranty for that sum — along with the option to change out the MX sensor to Red’s upcoming Dragon model, presumably. Bear in mind that you’d still lack the SSD drive, LCD, batteries or charger needed to shoot, but even with all that would still be under the regular basic price — meaning you might be able to stop saving up and start shooting.

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Red offers ‘truckload’ of one-time rental Scarlet-Xs for almost $5K off each originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Haggling is so popular that it’s virtually mandatory in some parts of the world, and yet it’s rarely an option in the online space outside of informal auctions. If Amazon ever puts its newly granted patent into practice, however, we could soon be trying for a better price without the mock drama of a face-to-face encounter. The retailer’s proposed haggling system lets buyers and sellers make offers and counteroffers until they reach a happy medium, but with the kind of honesty check we only wish we could have in person. Both buyers and sellers get ratings that would account for their flexibility, typical closing prices and how likely they are to drop a deal before it’s done — a combination that hopefully excludes the cheapskates and those who’d simply keep our wheels spinning. Even if Amazon pulls the trigger on negotiated sales, though, it’s a fairly safe bet that there won’t be any leeway on that Kindle Fire HD.

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Amazon patents online haggling system that keeps buyers, sellers on the up and up originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:33:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Rovio is well-known as the developer and publisher of the insanely popular video game Angry Birds. This week, the company launched a new game called Bad Piggies that is told from the pigs point of view.

The game launched for the iPhone and Android platforms. The game proved so popular on iOS, that it only took three hours for Bad Piggies to take the top spot in the United States App Store. The game is really amusing and has players attempting to build contraptions to help the pigs escape the wrath of the Angry Birds.

If you want to try this game out for yourself, there are versions of the app available for download on the App Store for iPhone and iPad, and Mac as well as on Google Play for Android. It’s a very fun game, I gave it a try yesterday and it’s surprisingly challenging.

[via TechCrunch]

We aren’t sure if analysts love or hate predicting sales of Apple’s extremely popular devices, but the iPhone always gets its fair share of predictions. While some suggested 8-10 million iPhone 5 smartphones would be sold in September, opening weekend only saw about 5 million total. Now we’re seeing predictions for all iPhone models topping 50 million in the fourth quarter of 2012 alone.

While recent analysts have been blaming shortages for their numbers being off, today J.P. Morgan analyst Katy Huberty is giving Apple some rather impressive predictions. Stating they’ll have an awesome end of year tallying up around 50 million iPhone sales for the fourth quarter. The same analyst is stating around 25m for Q3, and essentially doubling that number for next quarter.

With the iPhone 5 offering a bigger screen, 4G LTE, and getting a much wider launch than previous years it’s easy to see why she finds Q4 doing so well. Katy Huberty even goes as far as to state 200 million in sales for 2013. That is a pretty bold prediction, and something we’re sure Apple would love to see.

China will be a major factor and contributor to those sales numbers in Q4 and next year, offering the new device on multiple new carriers throughout the country. Overall Huberty expects that the larger display and addition of those blazing fast 4G LTE speeds will boost the iPhone to massive numbers for the rest of the year and beyond. In case you missed it, feel free to take a peek at our iPhone 5 review!

[via CNET]

iPhone sales could top 50 million in Q4 is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The online retail giant Amazon has a huge audience for selling their tablets and Kindle eReaders on the web, but when you don’t have a storefront you’ll take all the help you can get. In terms of brick and mortar stores there’s only a handful of opportunities for Amazon’s new Kindle Fire HD tablet — and today they’re losing a big one.

Today reports are claiming that an even bigger retail giant, Wal-Mart Inc will no longer support or sell any of Amazon’s line of Kindle Fire tablets or eReaders. This is a huge blow considering earlier this year Target removed them from their shelves too.

This marks the second major chain to stop offering Amazon’s products, and you have to wonder why. Are they feeling threatened that Amazon offers so many of the same things they do online, and don’t want to help the competition? This is what good old Wally-World had to say late last night in a memo to store management nationwide:

We have recently made the business decision to not carry Amazon tablets and eReaders beyond our existing inventory and purchase commitments,” “This includes all Amazon Kindle models current and recently announced.”

Obviously Walmart is one of the largest chains across America, but according to Reuters while they lead the charge in sales, their online sales are quite poor and are getting beat out by many — including Amazon. A Walmart spokeswoman said they’ll continue to sell “a broad assortment” of eReaders and tablets in the future. We can’t help but wonder if this is just to cut the helping hand they’ve been giving the competition, or if Walmart is looking to get into hardware themselves. Best Buy has Dynex and Insignia, could Walmart be preparing something of their own too?

[via Reuters]

Amazon’s Kindle readers and tablets booted from Walmart shelves is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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