Nintendo 3DS expansion up for pre-order in Japan, ready to bulk up consoles in December

Ever feel like your life is one right hand circle pad short of perfection? We’ve got some good news if you happen to live in Japan — Nintendo’s 3DS Expansion Slide Pad is now available for pre-order via Amazon in that country. Sure, not everyone out there is excited about the thing, but aside from some obvious problems with bulk, we didn’t find it entirely unpleasant during our hands-on time at the Tokyo Game Show last month — and if that’s not a ringing endorsement, we don’t know what is. The add-on will run you ¥1,500 ($19.50) and should start shipping on December 10th in Japan.

Nintendo 3DS expansion up for pre-order in Japan, ready to bulk up consoles in December originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 11 Oct 2011 11:06:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Upgrading to the iPhone 4S? Here’s how to resell your old iPhone

It’s been a few days now since we checked out seven different iPhone resellers and determined the highest possible amount iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4 owners could get for selling their old iPhones. If the thought of selling your phone has been brewing in your head, now is a good time to do it. As […]

Barnes & Noble pulls DC Comics from shelves over Kindle kerfuffle, risks Martian Manhunter’s wrath

Frankly, we’d advise against crossing anyone given to costumed superheroics, but a policy is a policy. Book selling giant Barnes & Noble has begun pulling select DC Comics from store shelves this week, in response to a deal struck between the publisher and Amazon, which will make digital copies of a number of comics exclusively available through the online retailer for use with the forthcoming Kindle Fire. The move is part of Barnes & Noble’s policy to remove physical books from its shelves if the available digital version of the text is not offered up to the company. According to an exec, “To sell and promote the physical book in our store showrooms and not have the e-book available for sale would undermine our promise to Barnes & Noble customers to make available any book, anywhere, anytime.” J’onn J’onzz has yet to weigh in on the matter.

Barnes & Noble pulls DC Comics from shelves over Kindle kerfuffle, risks Martian Manhunter’s wrath originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 08 Oct 2011 19:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon brings Kindle and associated ebook shop to France

French Kindle

France is getting the Kindle! No, seriously, until now the land of baguettes and Nicolas Sarkozy has had to make do without the world’s most popular ebook reader. Starting today though, our French friends can pre-order a Kindle (no touch and no keyboard) for €99 and have access to over 825,000 titles from the newly launched Kindle store. The first French-language readers from Amazon will start shipping out on October 14th and, if you need some more details, you’ll find the full PR after the break.

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Amazon brings Kindle and associated ebook shop to France originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon adds Kindle Fire-specific details to Developer Portal, A’s your FAQ

The Kindle Fire may not be hitting the market until November, but Amazon has already updated its Developer Portal FAQ page with an entire section devoted to its forthcoming Android tablet. On the new page, you’ll find largely standard information on things like the application process and how to set up an Android SDK emulator, though there are a few more salient tidbits, as well. For instance, Amazon says it will review every app in its Appstore for Fire compatibility, as part of an automated process. Rejected apps, Amazon informs us, will include those that rely on a gyroscope, camera, WAN module, Bluetooth, microphone, GPS, or micro SD. Apps are also forbidden from using Google’s Mobile Services (and in-app billing), which, if included, will have to be “gracefully” removed. In terms of actual content, Amazon has outlawed all apps that change the tablet’s UI in any way (including theme- or wallpaper-based tools), as well as any that demand root access (it remains to be seen how the company will treat the root-dependent apps already in its store). Interested devs can find more information at the source link, below.

Amazon adds Kindle Fire-specific details to Developer Portal, A’s your FAQ originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 07 Oct 2011 11:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Remove Ads From ‘Special Offers’ Kindle for $30

Amazon lets you opt out of ‘Special Offers’ on your Kindle. For a price

So you bought a Kindle with “Special Offers.” Maybe you were a little light on cash. Maybe you thought the ads wouldn’t bother you. Maybe you figured the prospect of saving $30-$40 and never having to see that awful Emily Dickinson screensaver ever again was too good to be true. Whatever. I won’t judge. But I can point you to absolution.

Now Amazon will let you buy yourself out of your foolish mistake. Yes, you can remove the ads from an ad-supported Kindle — as long as you have $30. Nate Hoffelder of The Digital Reader explains how. It is in fact dead easy, with no begging, pleading calls to Amazon customer service required. You just visit the “Manage Your Devices” page at Amazon and de-register the ads. You pay $30 and you’re done.

This is great news, and means there’s little reason to buy anything other than the ad-supported Kindle. After all, if you like the ads, or they don’t bother you, then you just saved $30. And if you can’t stand them, or get a strange hankering to see the spooky Dickinson portrait again, you can fix things in seconds.

Amazon Charged me $30 to get the Adverts Off my K4 [The Digital Reader]

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Ad-supported Kindle 4 has built-in $30 “upgrade”, gets rid of embedded special offers

Was it too cheap? Well, here’s some great news for fourth-generation Kindle users already tiring of its embedded ads looking cheap alongside their Vertu phones. You can now pay Amazon the requisite fee and unsubscribe from built-in advertising and offers. Visit the Manage your Kindle webpage and you can edit your subscriptions for the newest entry-level e-reader. There seems to be no option, however, to do the reverse just yet. Would Amazon hand over $30 to push those special offers into our currently ad-free Kindle?

Ad-supported Kindle 4 has built-in $30 “upgrade”, gets rid of embedded special offers originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 06 Oct 2011 05:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Kindle 4 Lightning Review: It’s Just Not That Into You

The Kindle 3 was like the girl next-door: Maybe not the prettiest, but comfortable, smart, and simple. The new non-touch Kindle’s the bitchy cheerleader; absolutely gorgeous but totally unaccommodating and uninterested in whether you’re enjoying yourself. More »

Amazon puts the kibosh on Kindle Touch 3G’s experimental browsing free ride

Back in the early ’90s, a certain Mr. Vandross and Ms. Jackson serenaded us with a little ditty on the benefits of free goods. Well, it might be time they updated the track because the best things in this eReading life are no longer free over a carrier’s 3G. If you happened to grow accustomed to sucking down data on your AT&T- or Sprint-enabled Kindle keyboard, we’d advise you to hold off on that newly introduced upgrade. An Amazon rep lurking the web retailer’s forums this past weekend delivered the disheartening news that experimental browsing over 3G on the Kindle Touch would no longer be supported. Sure, you can still connect to WiFi and surf via the clumsy E Ink browser, but where’s the on-the-go, loophole-exploiting fun in that? Bookworms with a predilection for an interwebbed free lunch should cling tightly to their outdated eReaders.

Amazon puts the kibosh on Kindle Touch 3G’s experimental browsing free ride originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Oct 2011 05:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Amazon Deal Finder

This article was written on December 17, 2007 by CyberNet.

Deal Locker As you witnessed earlier today with the iPod Touch, Amazon is a great source of deals. The real question is how do you find all of the deals that you’re looking for without spending hours browsing through their products each day. Deal Locker has setup a great search tool for Amazon that will help you hunt down some of the cheapest stuff being sold.

Deal Locker isn’t using any search features that aren’t already offered directly from Amazon, but the interface is a bit better. First off you can choose which Amazon site that you want to search: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, or France. If you’d like you can enter a keyword that you want to search for, but more importantly you can choose a category and discount range to view. For example, you can have it show cheap Xbox games and accessories by entering in the following:

  • Keyword or Brand: Xbox
  • Category: Computer & Video Games
  • Discounted from: 90% – 99%

Your results will look something like this. Now you may look at some of the items and say “hey, that’s not at least 90% off.” What I noticed rather quickly is that it also takes a look at the used and new prices, which are often much cheaper than what Amazon is selling the items for.

I did do some searching around for DVD’s, and I was quite surprised at some of the new releases that it came up with at a rather reasonable price. I definitely recommend checking into the service.

Amazon Deal Finder [via Donation Coder & Lifehacker]

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