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On The Cheap Alert: Amazon Prime One-Day Sale

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:10:04 +0000

Amazon Prime is a heck of a thing. You get two-day shipping at no additional cost,video streaming, all-access music streaming, unlimited photo storage, and access to the Kindle lending library. It’s also not cheap, running $99 a year. Sure, that’s only $8 a month, but what if it were cheaper? If you sign up this Saturday, […]

On The Cheap: T-Mobile And BlackBerry’s Public Tiff Can Pay Off For You

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:00:16 +0000

It’s sad when people fight, but when corporations do, the consumer can end up being the real winner. BlackBerry CEO John Chen called out T-Mobile, referring to an ad campaign as anti-BlackBerry for daring to suggest BlackBerry customers might want to trade their handsets in. Never mind that every company is basically doing trade-in offers, […]

On The Cheap: Kindle Fire HD Now Best Deal In Tablet Town

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:51:07 +0000

Amazon’s Kindle line has long been a favorite of mine. Yesterday morning the e-commerce titan announced not one, but two new tablets, dubbed the Kindle Fire HDX. Both the 7.8″ and 8.9″ models continue the trend of being a brilliant choice for consumers. However, instead of focusing on the new OS, cool costumer service solution, […]

On The Cheap: Kobo Mini Gets Mini Price

Yoni Gross — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:37:07 +0000

Ebook readers aren’t quite the hot item they used to be ever since the 7-inch tablet market dropped prices to the sub-$200 range, but they still have great advantages. Text you can read in direct sunlight, outrageous battery life, and at a significantly cheaper price than a more versatile, all-in-one device. Amazon’s most basic Kindle, […]

On The Cheap: Take Advantage Of WiMax’s Death And End Your Sprint Contract

Mordechai Osdoby — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:25:49 +0000

WiMax was supposed to be the future of wireless data. Instead, it tanked and the world has moved on to LTE. Sprint Wireless was the only U.S. provider to invest in the tech, and it’s due for shelving eventually. Sprint has changed contract terms reflecting this. The existing WiMax user choices are to transition to […]

On The Cheap: HTC Will Pay You To Buy The HTC One

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 03 May 2013 14:20:56 +0000

HTC was one of the first to join the smartphone party, which makes the company’s current lowest ever earnings even more disappointing. While Samsung and Apple battle for top dog, HTC has been putting out well-reviewed handsets and fighting for scraps. In a shot across everyone else’s bow, HTC is aggressively pursuing owners of existing handsets. This isn’t […]

On The Cheap: Free Additional Line On T-Mobile

Mordechai Osdoby — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:53:33 +0000

T-Mobile, fresh off of the approval of a pending merger with MetroPCS, is offering quite the impressive promotion. The company has been offering the choice to add a line for $5 on some plans for a while now; while that’s a good offer, it has now been topped. Existing customers can add a line for […]

On The Cheap: Cyber Monday Is Over, But Smartphone Savings Are Not

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 19:30:14 +0000

Yesterday was a fun day to be the writer of a column about cheap tech. I was so busy answering texts, Facebook messages, and tweets about what the best deals were that I wasn’t able to share them all here. Now that the dust has settled, I thought we could take a minute and see […]

On The Cheap: Free Samsung Phones at T-Mobile, Catch Included

Mordechai Osdoby — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:00:55 +0000

T-Mobile doesn’t want you to have to wait until Black Friday to get in on the cellphone deals. The cellphone provider is offering free Samsung phones this weekend, November 16 and 17. While the brand new, high-end Samsung Galaxy Note II isn’t included, the flagship Samsung Galaxy S III is. You can aslo get the […]

On The Cheap: Amazon’s Annual Wireless Sale Disappoints

Mordechai Osdoby — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 19:18:59 +0000

For the last two years, Amazon Wireless has been the best place to go to score cutting edge cellphones during the big holiday shopping season. A few years ago,the online retailing giant had every single smartphone for a penny, including then-$199 top of the line devices. Amazon has gone live with a “4G phones for […]