Verizon announced its holiday sale this week as Black Friday draws closer. Verizon has placed a few smartphones such as the red Droid Incredible 2, Droid 3 and LG Revolution LTE on sale online and in stores from November 24 to November 28. These phones are not free which makes this sale less desirable than what Amazon Wireless is doing right now. Amazon Wireless has every Verizon phone (except the iPhone) on sale for a penny after signing a new contract.

We knew T-Mobile was gearing up for some kind of big sale on September 24 based on a leak, but it has been made official today. T-Mobile will be putting all of its smartphones, tablets and mobile broadband devices on sale as part of a Value Plan promotion. It all sounds great on paper, but in reality, it’s hard to get excited about this “sale.”

Sprint ditched the mail-in-rebates in favor of instant discounts a few months back and well, it looks like they are soon going to be making a switch back. Yup, the latest in the Sprint rumor mill suggests that the mail-in rebates will be returning for “select devices” beginning on July 24th. According to the details more »

It looks like Sprint is getting ready to kill off one of the most dreaded things of buying a mobile phone. No, not the activation fee — the mail-in rebates. According to some details recently uncovered by the Boy Genius, Sprint will be ditching the mail-in rebates as of March 27th. Unfortunately though, they seem more »

We are still waiting to see something official from Verizon in terms of the new rebate policy for smartphones, Droid-Life is now showing off what appears to be an updated listing of which smartphones will (and will not) have rebates attached. According to this latest information, it looks like some of the smartphones will have more »

While we have already seen some evidence that Verizon is going to be dropping the mail-in-rebates for smartphones priced at $150 or higher, we are still awaiting the official word from Verizon. But with that, there is some more evidence that this will be happening, and happening soon — possible as of today. The latest more »

Based on this latest image of a Verizon internal memo, it looks like the rebates are going to be going away for smartphones that are priced at $150 or more. According to the details, “smartphones net priced $150 and above will have no rebates” and “smartphones net priced $149.99 and below will have $50 rebates.” more »

Have you seen the new Sony VAIO P notebook and desired the portable media device with every ounce of your being? Then, you look at the price tag and your heart sinks. Due to the demand of the device, Sony has yet to offer any major deals on the product. However, Verizon Wireless has now extended a $200 mail in rebate to its customers who purchase the Sony VAIO P.

In order to receive the $200 check, you’ll need to activate or renew your 2 year data plan with Verizon Wireless.

AT&T has added another of its “quick messaging phone” with the Quickfire. This phone’s got 3G, a QWERTY keyboard, touch screen, and a 1.3 megapixel camera in a slider form factor. This new phone comes in colors: silver, lime, and orange. With these kind of colors, AT&T doesn’t look like it’s aiming for business people. more »

Trying to lure in customers to replace their DVDs or HD DVDs with Blu-rays, Paramount is offering ten bucks per title to do just that. Although Paramount and Dreamwork titles are involved in the offer, it isn’t good for just any Paramount movie.

According to HighDefDigest, the promotion will start with the release of Transformers on Blu-ray coming in just a few days on September 2nd. Hopefully you won’t mind messing up those boxes a bit though, since you need to include the proof-of-purchase tabs from both the DVD and the Blu-ray disk, along with the promotional certificate from inside eligible Blu-ray movies. You also have to buy your Blu-rays before December 31, 2009 and have your rebate envelope postmarked before January 31, 2010.