Best Buy has sent out a customer survey asking customers about their opinions of a potential Apple iTV or HDTV and whether they would be interested in purchasing one. The description of the Apple HDTV Best Buy gives seems to be a combination of the current Apple TV and a large-screen television.

If you’ve been waiting for the deal of the year for iTunes content, you can stop holding your breath. It’s here. Today, Best Buy started offering $50 iTunes Gift Cards for just $40. That’s $10 off. Basically, you can get 20% off of any app on the App Store, any song on iTunes, and any iBook. Whether you’re buying gifts for others, or just lining your own iPhone with apps, you should probably pounce on this deal before Best Buy realizes what they’ve done.

Having serious problems with your iPhone 4′s reception related to the death grip maneuver? If so, Best Buy and invisibleSHIELD would like to help. It’s not cold hard fact yet, but there are some pretty convincing images floating around that show they’re teaming up to offer the invisibleSHIELD 4fix free to any iPhone 4 user, regardless of where you purchased it.

Pre-orders for iPhone 4 start tomorrow, and demand will likely be high. That means you should figure out where, when and how you’ll be getting your hands on the next generation iPhone. Pre-order or drop day? Online or retail? Delivery or in-store pickup? Black or white? Past the break are the details for Apple, AT&T, Best Buy, Radio Shack, and WalMart.

If Apple’s rumored Black Friday sale isn’t quite good enough for you, know this; there are other options. Best Buy will be having a Black Friday Apple sale of their own, if the image above is to be believed, and in some cases it will beat the Apple sale. But that’s not all; MacMall.com is currently running a very impressive sale on MacBook Pros.

Are you looking for a fantastic deal on an iPhone? Are you part of Best Buy’s Reward Zone program? Then you’re in luck, as you are eligible for some major savings on Apple’s 3G iPhone. As Best Buy’s email puts it, “Between 2/22 and 2/28/09, purchase an iPhone 3G with a 2-year new activation and save $50-$100.” If you are a Rewards Zone Premier Silver member, you can save $100 off of either model, bringing the 8GB and 16GB models’ prices down to $99.99 and $199.99 respectively. If you are a regular Rewards Zone member, those prices will just be $50.00 more, making for some sizable deals.

We are swiftly approaching Black Friday. Or, as I like to call it, the best work day of the year. The highways are empty, clients don’t call, and the boss is usually gone so I can play Call of Duty 4 multiplayer with my coworkers all day long.

A lot of you, however, will be out shopping. Over the past couple of weeks, the Dabbledoo sites have been reporting on numerous developer deals and “leaked” retail ads, so we’ve collected the best of them here for you in one neat article, organized by retailer and product type. As Friday approaches, we’ll continue to update this list, so be sure to check back often.

MacRumors is adding to the rumors of new Macs with a report about six new placeholder SKUs in the inventory system of Future Shop. Placeholder SKUs are a common practice in the inventory systems of retailers across the board. You might remember that Best Buy had a similar set of new SKUs three weeks prior more »

Inventory numbers on the 8GB iPhones are extremely low according to retail sources (via AppleInsider). Now what do you think could be causing this shortage?

Apple often tries to clear out their inventories before launching new products, or upgrades. So, why would Apple let the 8GB model run dry when they only have 8GB and 16GB models to choose from? Either there’s really just a shortage of this model, or Apple is likely prepping for a larger capacity iPhone.

Seems like Microsoft is trying to duplicate a few of Apple’s defining strategies. First the funny(?) Seinfeld ads, and now, as part of a $300 million dollar marketing effort, Microsoft confirmed that they will be employing in-store representatives to act as Genius-like Microsoft know-it-alls, called Gurus. The company also plans to employ a good number of floor specialists (equivalent to Apple’s Personal Shoppers or Concierge) in a trial run at Circuit City and Best Buy.

Details after the break.