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Because I can’t help myself, I will be live-tweeting on Twitter X the new Samsung Unpacked July 2024 event that starts on Wednesday July 10 in 2024 at 9am eastern (6am pacific time). It takes place in Paris, they are not early birds in California π
You can find the live-stream YouTube-embedded below for your convenience…
Crazy Samsung time! For a limited time, at Amazon, Samsung is offering this promotion: Buy a participating 2024 TV and receive for FREE the 65-inch Samsung TU690T TV! This is sold as a bundle at Amazon, so you can be certain you are getting the freebie because you see it shown as a bundle. For example, here’s one example of an eligible product as of the time of writing.
If you played a drinking game on the word “AI” during yesterday’s Samsung Unpacked, you would have needed a new liver by now! If what you saw excites you, or you just want to get the latest flagship as soon as it comes out, the pre-orders have began!
At the Samsung online shop they have big trade-in promotions, along with combined purchase offers, 20% off discount on Apple Care Samsung Care+, installment or monthly payment options, and lots more!
Amazon is offering a $200 Amazon gift card on the $1300 Galaxy S24 Ultra. You have to click on the little “Redeem” button and follow the instructions to get the free gift card, so be sure to slow down and pay attention to the ever-so-busy Amazon product page!
The S24 Plus ($1000) gets a $150 gift card, while the S24 ($800) gets a $50 gift card. For all three models, as part of the launch festivities, the higher on-board storage option is at the same price as the lower option. Considering the difference in the gift cards ($100 more) and the higher high storage options (256GB vs 512GB), the S24+ seems to be a more reasonable option instead of the S24 for $100 more (after the gift card is factored in as something you can easily use).
Similar offers can be found at the Best Buy website.
Various trade-in and other pre-order bonuses can be found at the various carrier websites such as AT&T Wireless and T-Mobile and Verizon Wireless which promises “a Watch and Tab all on us” providing you sign up for participating unlimited plans and make a trade-in.
As usual when dealing with carriers, be sure to pay attention to terms, conditions, restrictions, fineprint, fineprint on the fineprint itself, and have a law firm on retainer π
Yes dear readers, it’s that time of the year again, another high-profile Samsung Unpacked event, with a “Galaxy AI” theme, and I will be live-tweeting it on Twitter, at @1001noisycamera [no final “s” because character limit]. This will be in our customary snarky and irreverent style π
The live-stream is YouTube-embedded below for your convenience, or you can find it at the Samsung website:
Good until Sunday 12/10/23 at 11:59pm ET or earlier if sold out we have the following 7+1 formation of B&H Photo daily deals:
+ SeaLife Micro 3.0 Limited Edition Explorer Underwater Camera and Photo-Video Dive Light Gift Set for $499 after in-cart coupon
+ includes 500-2000 Lumen Photo/Video Dive Light
+ camera has 16mp 1/2.3″ Sony CMOS sensor
+ Samsung memory card sale, with three microSDXC and two SDXC options
+ 256GB EVO Plus UHS-I SDXC (V30, U3, C10) for $16 after in-cart coupon
+ 256GB PRO Plus UHS-I SDXC (V30, U3, C10) for $20 after in-cart coupon
+ Sachtler Camporter Camera Bag (Large) for $144
+ RucPAC Professional Tech Gloves for $20, three size options
+ Ponte Midnight Blue Canvas Camera Lift-Strap for $10
+ Logitech G PRO X SUPERLIGHT Wireless Gaming Mouse for $90 after in-cart coupon, two color options
+ FLASH DEAL: Goalzero Sherpa 100AC Power Bank (3rd Gen) for $150
Videography time at the Creative Live ON-AIR, the Sunday free-streamer is a 5-hour class “Shooting Documentary Short Films” with Griffin Hammonds…
If you want to have a phone whose name ends in S23 but don’t want to pay the price for the flagship triumvirate, Samsung has you covered too with the new “S23 FE” (Fan Edition) with a launch promotion of $600 bundled with a $100 Amazon plastic gift card. This is the 128GB. The 256GB version goes for +$60. You can also get it bundled with the new “FE Buds” for +$50. Because Samsung has a plan!
Speaking of Amazon, they are currently running a seven-page Clearance Sale on Amazon’s house brand products, including AmazonBasics bags (not camera-specific), cables, single-use batteries, and all kinds of things.
For Wednesday as well, the Adorama daily deals continue to be in “Top Deals” mode…
MEANwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s another variant of the Samsung storage sale that includes 512GB microSD cards for $34 for the EVO Plus microSDXC and $35 for the EVO PRO Plus. They also have 128GB and 256GB options but the 512GB wins the $/GB.
They also have bundles with card readers that cost more. The sale also includes T7 portable SSDs, including the “Shield” (tougher) kind, along with a couple of 970 EVO Plus internal SSDs.
In addition to the previously mentioned Z Fold 5 and Flip 5 pre-orders, Samsung has also launched their new TAB S9 flagship tablet in three flavors. The base model starting at $800, the Plus starting at $1000 and the Ultra starting at $1200 for the Wifi-only versions. Thankfully the naming is consistent with their S-series smartphone flagships π
The official Samsung website has various pre-order and trade-in and financing offerings, and offers a free storage upgrade as follows:
+ 11-inch S9 base model from 8GB/128GB to 12GB/256GB
+ this is the most impactful free upgrade as both RAM and storage go up
+ 12.4″ S9 Plus with 12GB RAM, from 256GB to 512GB
+ 14.6″ S9 Ultra with 12GB RAM, from 256GB to 512GB
+ carrier options are available for the Plus model
$50 pre-order discount for the S9 Base and Plus models
If you don’t qualify or you are not interested or the dizzying Samsung website turns you off, B&H Photo is offering a $50 off in-cart discount, in addition to the free storage upgrade as follows:
+ 11-inch Tab S9 Base (Wifi only) with 12GB RAM and 256GB storage for $750 after in-cart pre-order discount
+ the little tab at the B&H page incorrectly says 16GB instead of 12GB
+ the product description correctly says 12GB
+ Samsung does NOT make a 16GB version, so no matter how much one can “Karen it”, they can’t get a 16GB version π
+ 12.4″ TAB S9 Plus (Wifi-only) with 12GB RAM and 512GB storage for $950 after in-cart pre-order discount
+ as of the time of writing the 14.6″ TAB S9 Ultra is not listed at the B&H website
+ optionally, when you click on the “Build a Bundle” you can get a combined purchase discount if you buy it together with the Samsung Slim Book Cover Keyboard
+ the S-PEN is included with all the TAB S9 models (as it should)
Yesterday Samsung revealed (we live tweeted it) their new flagship foldable phones along with their new smartwatches. Now it’s time for pre-ordering! The estimated release date is August 11 in 2023!
The official Samsung website has a variety of offers and trade-in promotions. You can buy it unlocked or you can buy it for your favorite carrier. Trade-in and financing offers also abound. And at the moment you get the extra storage option for the same price. Meaning the 512GB version of the Z Flip 5 goes for $1000 (same as the 256GB), while the 512GB version of the Z Fold 5 goes for $1800 (same as the 256GB).
Samsung also has offers for first responders, government employees, educational offers (yes, parents are included as well, not just students/teachers), military and families, and employee purchase programs.
On the other hand, if you prefer to buy the unlocked phone and you don’t want or don’t qualify for the various Samsung offer programs, Amazon is throwing in Amazon Gift Cards with purchase! You also get the 512GB version for the 256GB price!
+ Z FOLD 5 (512GB) for $1800 with FREE $200 Amazon Gift Card
+ three color options
+ Z FLIP 5 (512GB) for $1000 with FREE $150 Amazon Gift Card
+ four color options
+ Galaxy Watch 6 starts at $300 with $50 Amazon Gift Card
+ Galaxy Watch 6 Classic starts at $400 with $50 Amazon Gift Card
+ the LTE versions (obviously) cost more
Yes, it’s Samsung time again! And this time the Samsung Unpacked will take place in Korea, that’s why the starting time is 7am eastern (4am pacific time).
Because I can’t help it, I will be live-tweeting the event (see note below) on Twitter or Twitter-X or X or Musk-X or Tesla-X or whatever it’s new name is π
NOTE that Musk changed Twitter so you have to be logged in to read what other people are writing. The link above will take you to a Twitter login page if you are not already logged in to Twitter. BOO to Gates and Walled Gardens!
Here’s the video YouTube-embedded below:
Day #2 aka the last day of the 2023 incarnation of Prime Dayz is here! As one of the Amazon website banners says, shop now, sleep later π
One of the headliners of the sale at this very moment is a big Samsung phone sale with over 120 products, headlined by the new condition US version factory-unlocked Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (S-Pen included) going for $850 in the 256GB variant and $980 in the 512GB variant. Available in multiple color options.
Please feel free to send me an S23 Ultra or two as an early XMas present π
The big Samsung sale also includes the Flips and Folds (if you like to pay big bucks to beta test Samsung’s R&D LOL {but please feel free to send me one of each!}), some of the budget A-series phones, and a variety of Samsung-branded “canon” accessories.
UHS-II fans unite and head on over to the 5/31/23 Adorama daily deals where you will find:
+ 1667x 128GB LEXAR Professional SDXC UHS-II Memory Card for $32 after $5 off in-cart coupon
+ U3, V60, C10, 250
+ maiden name: LSD128CBNA1667
+ HYTE Y40 S-Tier Aesthetic Panoramic Tempered Glass ATX Mid-Tower Gaming Computer Case for $130 in two color options
The Memorial Day sale is over, so Amazon has resurrected the good old Gold Box where the headliner is a Samsung Tablets sale featuring the Tab S7 FE for $470 in various color schemes, and the A7 Lite for $105 in two color schemes.
Do you know what everybody’s getting in their Christmas Socks this year? A smart light-bulb! Because the Tuesday 5/16/23 Meh daily deal is a 24-pack of Merkury Multicolor + White Dimmable Smart LED Light Bulbs going for $48 plus shipping (free for Meh-members). These are A21, and work with Wifi using the Genie app or spy-master Alexa or ad-master Google Home.
THEN to the B&H Photo daily deals we geaux where we find:
+ SmallRiG Camera Cages for select Sony cameras, basic kit for $30, advanced kit for $94
+ Manfrotto 504X Fluid Head & Aluminum Tripod System with Mid-Level Spreader, Ultrasone Headset & Bluetooth Adapter for $700
+ PortKEYS PT6 6″ 4K HDMI Touchscreen Monitor for $109
+ Blizzard LB-Par Quad RGBA LED Light for $130
+ Polsen SP-260 Rackmount 2×6 Stereo Distribution Splitter (1 RU) for $60
+ Antelope Zen Go Synergy Core Desktop 4×8 USB Type-C Audio Interface for $349 with FREE 6-month Podcast hosting service
UPDATE
The Adorama daily deals have two items, the Celestron Power Tank Lithium for $150 and the PGYTECH Professional UV Filter for DJI Mavic Air 2 for $15…
MEANwhile the headliner of the Amazon USA Gold Box is a Samsung Monitors sale featuring a total of 25 products with prices ranging from $160 (27″ 1080p curved) to $2000 (55″ 4K 165Hz curved). Happy Samsunging π
IT’s a 3Pod party at the Adorama daily deals that run until Saturday at 3am ET or earlier if sold out:
+ 3Pod V3AH 3-Section Aluminum Video Tripod with 2-Way Fluid Head for $100
+ 3Pod Orbit 4-Section Carbon Fiber Handheld Monopod Stick for $90
+ Fluid Base, Tilt Head with Quick Release, Tripod Legs and Bag 65″
MEANwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s another variant of the Samsung Memory and Drives sale that includes various internal and external SSDs, a 512GB microSD for $45, the 128GB EVO Plus SDXC (V30, UHS-I, U3) for $14, the 256GB BAR Plus USB-A 3.1 flash drive for $24, and things like that. A total of 17 options are participating.
Elsewhere at the Gold Box there’s a sale on Instant brand kitchen appliances like hot pots, airfryers, dutch ovens, etc. PRO TIP: you can hide your lenses in these, no one will think to look for them there π
IF you are fond of coffee, the limited edition and limited availability Ethiopian Super Natural is back at Peet’s Coffee, $23 per pound.
LAST but not least, a FREEBIE for those participating in the Lucky Rewards program (regional supermarket chain), a FREE 24oz “The Greek Gods” yogurt…
TWO items in the latest round of the Adorama daily deals running until Thursday early AM:
+ Netgear Nighthawk AX4 AX3000 4-Stream Wi-Fi 6 Router for $119
+ HYTE Y60 Modern Aesthetic Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX PC Case, Black for $170
MEANwhile at the Wednesday Amazon USA Gold Box they have:
+ Samsung Galaxy TAB S6 Lite for $215
+ 10.4″, 64GB on-board, 2000 x 1200, S-Pen
+ ο»Ώο»ΏGearLight Ring Light – 10″ Selfie Tripod Stand with LED Lights, Dual Phone Holders, Adjustable Height and Lighting for $18 minus 20% clip-on coupon, dropping it to around $15
+ XGIMI projectors, three options, $470 to $1999
Amazon is offering its own gift cards as pre-order freebies with the pre-order purchase of the new Samsung Galaxy S23 flagships. The gift card amount depends on the model:
+ $50 Amazon gift card with the Samsung Galaxy S23 (256GB version) for $800
+ $100 Amazon gift card with the Samsung Galaxy S23+ (Plus) (512GB version) for $1000
+ $100 Amazon gift card with the Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra (512GB version) for $1200
+ this is the one with the S-Pen
+ please feel free to send me this one as a tape-delayed Xmas present π
SPEAKING of Amazon, for a limited time they are running a sale on some of their Kindle e-readers, including the Paperwhite Signature, regular and Kids variants, and the 2022 “basic” Kindle. Nothing beats a Kindle (or other e-ink e-readers) when it comes to reading text-only e-books!
The time has come again, Samsung is hosting another “Samsung Unpacked” event starting on the interwebs on Wednesday 2/1/23 at 1pm eastern, and, why not, I will be live-tweeting it on the Twitter, in the usual “noisy style” π
We are once again in downward overall trend of memory card prices, case in point, as part of the Samsung festivities at Amazon, you can get the new condition 512GB SAMSUNG EVO Select microSDXC for just $45, that’s over 10GB per dollar! Up to five per customer.
It “defeats” all its lower storage options in GB/$! Its official name is MB-ME512KA/AM. It is V30, A2, UHS-I, U3, C10, and the usual *-proof of Samsung’s cards. Up to 130MB/s.
If you are looking for a USB-C flash drive with a reasonable storage amount, you are in luck, because, for a limited time, Amazon herself is offering the new condition 256GB Samsung USB-C Flash Drive for $24, with up to 30 units per customer at the sale price.
As it is often the case with Samsung storage, this is a multi-proof (water-proof, shock-proof, magnet-proof, temperature-proof, XRay-proof), with a 5-year warranty…
If you want a tablet with an S-Pen, for a limited time, the new condition US-version Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (4GB RAM, 64GB storage, Snapdragon 720G) is on sale for $230 at Amazon itself and also at Best Buy where it’s the headliner deal of the day…
It’s a Samsung Storage Party at the Tuesday 11/1/22 Amazon USA Gold Box, featuring 21 products from the worlds of memory cards, SSDs, flash drives, and such. Too many to list here individually.
Speaking of Amazon, for Tuesday, they are sale-a-brating National Authors Sale with over 200 eBooks in their Kindle daily deals…
You could fill up your home/office/studio with dual monitors with this offer, one of the Amazon gold box deals du jour for Friday 9/16/22 is the new condition SAMSUNG 49″ S95UA Super Ultrawide Dual QHD Monitor offered for $900 with free US shipping, sold and shipped by Amazon itself, with up to three per customer at the sale price.
Specs include 4ms, QLED, HDR400, USB-C, USB Hub, 120Hz, Height Adjustable Stand, model LS49A950UINXZA of 2022, Charcoal Black color scheme.
As of the time of writing it averages 4.4 out of 5 based on 49 customer ratings.
There’s tech action at the Monday 3/21/22 Amazon USA Gold Box as follows:
+ Samsung Z Fold 3 and Z Flip 3 sale, along with S21 FE and S20 FE
+ Z Flip 3 starts at $845, Z Fold 3 starts at $1400
+ Razer gaming sale includes mechanical keyboards and Photoshop gaming chairs π
+ Govee Smart Lights, consumer-tier, not photography lighting, but light is light!
Speaking of consumer lighting, there are a couple of LED lighting options under “Clearance” at the Monday Woot daily deals…
MicroSDXC action at the NewEGG dailies where you can get the 512GB Samsung EVO Plus (A2, V30, U3, UHS-I) for $55 after using the limited time $11 off promo code shown over there…
Meanwhile at the Amazon USA Gold Box there’s a sale on Fire TV Omni television sets, from $370 to $750, with these prices being the result of an “up to 40% off” sale…
UPDATE: the latest Adorama daily deals (change Sunday at 10am ET):
+ Steiner 8×42 Predator Water Proof Roof Prism Binocular for $220
+ Casio CS-67 Privia Keyboard Wooden Stand for $120
+ CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme Liquid Cool Gaming Desktop for $1540
+ i7-11700KF 3.6GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 (with 12GB)
+ Windows 10 Home, Free Upgrade to Windows 11
For a limited time, B&H Photo is having a sale on 16 Samsung SSDs, mostly of the Internal kind, but there are also a few of the Portable kind…
Tuesday is here and we start with another 7+1 B&H Photo daily deals set of offerings running until 11:59pm ET (or earlier if sold out):
+ Bolt VM-110 LED Macro Ring Light for $30
+ Moza Air 2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer for $279 with FREE Moza Magic Arms
+ Think Tank Video Rig 18 Rolling Case (Pacific Slate) for $200
+ various other non-camera electronics
MeanwhiLe at the Tuesday Amazon USA Gold Box, the Keurig K-Mini goes for $60 in different color schemes… Also on sale are select Sony bluetooth speakers but the star of the day is a big Samsung sale that includes the Z-Fold 3 (5G, unlocked) starting at $1349, Galaxy Watch 4 starting at $225, and various microSD cards including the budget-priced 64GB EVO Select (V10, A1, U1) for $8 [up to three per customer]. The highest capacities (eg 128GB for $16) are V30, U3, A2 instead….
For Friday October 22 in 2021, in the pacific time zone, we have a Samsung Invasion / Takeover of the Amazon USA Gold Box with many Samsung offers including:
+ Galaxy laptops, Chromebook 4 for $180, Galaxy Book PRO (Intel EVO) for $760 to $840)
+ and another Galaxy laptop sale with the Chromebook Go for $250, and Galaxy Book PRO (Intel EVO) from $850 to $1150
+ 256GB Samsung EVO Plus SDXC for $25
+ that’s around $1 per 10GB
+ 512GB Samsung EVO Select microSDXC for $55
+ 256GB Samsung PRO Plus microSDXC for $50, 512GB for $90
+ I wonder how many Samsung employees know the difference between their various SD memory card lines π
+ 1TB Samsung T7 portable SSD for $130
+ unlocked Samsung Galaxy S21* phones and cases, the “S21 Plus” for $750 to $775, the “S21 Ultra” for $950
+ PRO TIP: don’t put “plus”, “minus”, “final S” and things like that in product names, it just creates unnecessary confusion; or as they call it in soccer, you score an own goal
+ the sale also includes Samsung Soundbars, smartwatches, robots and stick vacuums, 85-inch digital flip charts [we are talking about Samsung here, no new product idea ever gets rejected LOL], and more
+ also on sale Samsung tablets, Frame TV, Galaxy Buds, Samsung computer monitors, Samsung SSDs, and lots more
+ Prime Card members only: 10% back on select Samsung TVs
+ works for any one of the three official Prime credit cards (VISA, Store card, Secured Card)
+ way too many to list here individually
It’s Samsung memory card time at the Amazon USA Gold Box good until Saturday 8/28/21 at 11:59pm pacifica time [fun fact: pacifica is in the pacific time zone] there is a sale on the following three Samsung memory cards:
+ 256GB Samsung EVO Plus SDXC for $24
+ I haven’t tried these ones
+ 256GB EVO Select microSDXC (UHS-I, U3, 4K, adapter) for $28
+ 512GB version of above for $60
+ Samsung microSD cards have become my go-to these days, ahead of all the brand I’ve used
+ up to five per item per Amazon account
BUT if you prefer the orange/cream Samsung microSDXC cards, fear not, among the NewEGG dailies for Saturday they have the 128GB Samsung EVO microSDXC for $16 with free US shipping, up to three per customer, sold and shipped by NewEgg herself…
THEN among the Best Buy dailies we find a 2TB Seagate Expansion external HDD for $55 (not so long ago $50 was the default sale price for 1TB), a sale on Acer monitors, etc, etc, etc…
If you feel nostaglic for the good old Mall Brand Names, the Saturday Meh daily deal is a 2-piece Sharper Image UV sanitizing bundle going for $15 with free S&H only for paying Meh-members [until Amazon buys them too and free Prime shipping LOL – this is only a joke, I don’t want to start any rumors of this sort]…
Speaking of Amazon, if you want to load up your Kindle with more ebooks, their Saturday Kindle daily deals include a total of 88 ebooks of all kinds…
And for those within the EU, Amazon Germany is having a sale on 1-year Adobe High Profit Cloud subscriptions (Lightroom, Photographer, All Apps)…
OOPS, the cat stepped on the keyboard, I meant “Adobe Creative Cloud subscriptions” π
UPDATE: the current Adorama daily deal (ends Sunday 10am ET) is the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme Liquid Cool Gaming Desktop Computer (i9-11900KF 3.5GHz, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD + 2TB HDD, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8GB, Windows 10 Home) going for $2070 with free US shippings…
Trying to jump ahead of the crowd, the official Samsung website is accepting reservation pre-orders of the yet to be announced Samsung flagship smartphone. This will be officially announced on Tuesday August 10 in 2021 at 10am eastern in an online-streaming Samsung Unpacked event.
The bonuses offered by Samsung are:
As this is a reservation pre-order, no prices or model names are revealed π
PS: if I decide to live-tweet the Samsung Unpacked event, I will post an alert on this blog as well; do people still live-tweet things or is that a thing of the past nowadays? π
And at the NewEgg Gold Box there’s the Ryzen 5 2600 for $186 thanks to a very generous 500 cents off ($5 off) promo code π
Of more related interest, there’s the new condition 256GB Samsung EVO microSDXC card for $28 with free US shipping. Sold and shipped by NewEgg itself. No promo code needed. Up to five per customer. This is UHS-I, U3, orange-cream color scheme, flash adapter included, four-proof protection, 10-year warranty, etc…
On microSDs, I’m currently using a mix of Samsung and Sandisk…
UPDATE: I just now noticed, also part of the Wednesday 6/2/21 daily deals is the refurbished Sony HDR-CX-240-L Handycam camcorder going for $70, sold and shipped by 3rd-party seller “VIP Outlet” with a not-so-VIP 76% positive rating π
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