Archives for November 4, 2014

Now shipping: Nexus 9 for $400

If you are a fan of Pure Android, the brand new 9-inch Google Nexus 9 tablet made by HTC is now in-stock and ready to ship for $400 in the 16GB configuration at Amazon by Amazon herself. Also in-stock is the 32GB version for $480.

Spend $100+ at NatGeo’s Store, Get $20 for a future purchase

The National Geographic Store has a special promotion, you can see it at the top of their website: if you spend $100 or more in a single transaction between 11/3 and 11/26 in 2014, you will automatically receive later on a $20 promotional code for a future purchase. To use the $20 promotional code, your next purchase must be $20.01 or more. Shipping, taxes and such do not count towards the limits. The promotional amount must be used by 12/31/14. Click on the link on the top of their page over there for the detailed terms and conditions.

(ENDED) Ends Tue 11pm ET: 64GB Sandisk Ultra microSD for $30 (32GB for $15) [updated]

This daily deal expired…

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Amazon Prime members: FREE Unlimited Photo Storage [updated]

UPDATE (11/8/14): One of our readers pointed out in the comments that one of the Cloud Drive pages makes it sound like you only get unlimited photos only for photos taken with a Fire Phone or Fire Tablet. However, that looks like they messed up the wording – it looks like a failed attempt to market the Fire devices. Judging by multiple responses to Twitter questions by the official Cloud Drive Twitter account, it suggests that the offer is unlimited regardless of devices. For example, in the tweet below, one person asked them if 1.8TB (terabytes) was okay and they said yes as long as they are a Prime member…

One thing to note is that the offer is only for photos, not videos.

Another thing of note, if you are using uncommon file formats, their system may not recognize them as pictures and instead count them against the cloud quota. If so, contact their customer service and they should be able to fix it since they don’t have a restriction against RAW files philosophically.

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If you are an Amazon Prime member, or if you are on the bubble as to whether to sign up or renew the membership, Amazon just revealed another Prime member benefit. Unlimited photo storage with Amazon Cloud Drive Photos.

They are multiple ways you can load up your Cloud Drive with photos: it has a Google Play Android app (Android 2.3.3 or later), an iTunes iOS app (iOS 7 or later), and Amazon Android-ish app store and Desktop PC apps (the pages for those try to automatically start a download so I’m not putting them here because that’s rude).

I haven’t read the full terms and conditions, so I don’t know how “unlimited” unlimited is. There are physical limits, although I guess there are also physical limits on how much and how fast one can upload as well 🙂