Most people don’t start the rush to find the perfect holiday gift until after Thanksgiving. Instead of counting down the days until its too late and trying to make a last minute purchase, HTC is bringing the insane savings of Black Friday shopping well before the season starts.
Every Tuesday through the holiday season will feature a new Hot Deal from HTC.
Made to make your holiday shopping a breeze by bringing you awesome gifts at affordable prices, the offers will run between noon and midnight eastern. There’s a limited quantity available for each offer, so you’ll want to hop on them as soon as you can. If you can’t get in on the featured Hot Deal, HTC has you covered with a second offer available after the first deal expires.
This week’s offer takes 50 percent off phone accessories.
Discounted accessories include the recently-announced Rapid Charger 2.0, the Dot View case for the One M8, and HTC’s portable Bluetooth speaker, the Boombass. The discount is applied when you add items to the cart, so get to shopping before HTC runs out of accessories to sell. At the time of this writing, the Rapid Charger 2.0 is no longer available for purchase.
In previous weeks, HTC has offered the gorgeous HTC One M8, and the Nexus 9.
The unlocked Android version of HTC’s flagship handset will be available for $300 for the first 200 customers to claim the deal. That marks a savings of $350 off the initial retail price, which is a nice chunk of cash staying in your wallet.
Once the initial run is gone, 300 more people will have a chance to get the HTC One M8 for $500. It’s not quite the massive price cut as the first offer, but if you were going to pick up an HTC One M8 anyway, you might as well save on it when you have the chance.
The all-new Nexus 9 tablet (16GB model), was available for 50 percent off its retail price, making it just $200. Once the quantity of Nexus 9s price at half off are gone, the Hot Deal opens up to everyone to get $50 off the Nexus 9, 16GB or 32GB.
Two new highly requested iCloud plugins just got added to ChatGPT, giving people who rely on Apple’s Mail and Calendar services a way to search emails, check appointments, and manage their schedules directly through the chatbot.
The integration is rolling out to all ChatGPT plans, including the free tier. You can access it on the web, desktop, and iOS.
Google Play is borrowing one of the Nintendo Switch’s most useful little tricks. A new Sidekick tool called Playbacks captures a short clip after something interesting has already happened, sparing players from running a screen recorder throughout an entire game.
Playbacks is part of Google Play Store v53.8 and keeps saved clips on the phone. Google first announced it earlier this month, but the new Play Store update marks its arrival for players. Anyone who has watched a perfect win vanish because the record button came too late already understands the appeal.
Samsung’s scandal over its Game Optimizing Service, or GOS, has returned with a bill attached. South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has tentatively fined the company 20.1 billion won, or about $15.1 million, over gaming claims made for the Galaxy S21, Galaxy S22, and Tab S8.
The regulator says Samsung promoted the devices as gaming powerhouses without disclosing that GOS placed preset CPU and GPU limits on certain demanding games. Samsung disputes that conclusion, calling GOS a legitimate way to manage heat.