It’s shaping up to be a rough week for Samsung’s Galaxy Tab (SGT) tablet. Yesterday, it was disclosed that the lofty sales figures Samsung has been beating its chest about were to retailers, not to end users. Today, news breaks of a disturbing trend: the SGT had an estimated 16% return rate through January 15th. more »

Sure, Dell has already officially killed off the Mini 9, but that does not seem to be stopping them from bringing it back for a short encore. Basically, the Mini 9 will be available for just four days, which means if you have been wishing you hit the buy button before it went away last time you need to react quickly.

Here’s a nice light-hearted story that could inspire us all and reminds us that there are still a few remaining good samaritans out there. What makes this story more interesting is that the individuals involved are actually techie’s like us. Scott Hacker lost his phone and realized it was lost only after receiving the following more »

Best Buy has updated their HD DVD Trade-In website and is now offering up some pricing details. Sadly it seems that most people would be better off keeping the players and simply using them as an up-converting or spare DVD player around the house. Remember those Toshiba A2 players that we were seeing become quite more »

In a move to help those upset customers who purchased an HD DVD player, Best Buy has announced they will begin offering $50 gift cards for those who made their purchase before February 23, 2008. Considering the HD DVD players will still function and work fairly nice as an up-converting DVD player this $50 gift more »

Thanks to a leaked memo entitled “HD DVD – The End” that was posted on an internal Circuit City forum we have learned about the possibility of having your HD DVD player exchanged for a new Blu-ray player to include a Playstation 3.

With that, you cannot expect to simply walk in and hand over your current HD DVD player and just walk out with a new Blu-ray player. There are a few small (and obvious) catches. Circuit City is basically granting an open ended return policy for HD DVD players, and you will have to pay any difference in price. Also noted in the memo is that if you no longer want the HD DVD player and also do not want to purchase a Blu-ray player you will be given a gift card refund for the amount the player originally cost. Similar to other software and media titles, they (once opened) are not able to qualify for a refund.

Sounds like a great way to stay current with your next-generation player. It does make you wonder why other big-box retailers do not have a similar policy in place, or just how soon they will start one up.

Continue reading to see the full memo that had been leaked…