{"id":514,"date":"2007-04-16T20:16:05","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T01:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/16\/looking-for-a-bargain-n800-in-the-usa-froogle-best"},"modified":"2007-04-16T20:16:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T01:16:07","slug":"looking-for-a-bargain-n800-in-the-usa-froogle-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/16\/looking-for-a-bargain-n800-in-the-usa-froogle-best","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a bargain N800 in the USA &#8211; Froogle best?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing that I&#8217;ll be in United States next week (or rather this weekend), I figured it&#8217;d be nice to find an N800. It retails for USD$399, at all the CompUSA outlets within the San Francisco region. I thought that maybe, Google&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/froogle.google.com\/\">Froogle<\/a> tool might assist, but have been pretty disappointed to find that the cheapest available from a reputable dealer seems to be USD$349.99 (from Popular Electronics, in Chicago).<\/p>\n<p>Is Froogle the best to search for bargains in the USA? Can I find a cheaper N800 in San Francisco?<\/p>\n<p>That aside, Froogle is a rather cool tool. Its got some amazing sorting facilities (sorting by relevance or price, which is important for bargain hunters), and if you enter a city, state or zip code (post code), it also provides a map (directly out of Google Maps) of stores in the area. Rather nifty, I must say. And of course there are also sponsored links (AdWords) on the page. All in all, if you&#8217;ve not visited it, do pay it a visit. Not so useful in Australia, where something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopbot.com.au\/\">ShopBot<\/a> might be handier, but clearly something for the folk at Google to think about bringing to the Aussie market.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/handhelds\" rel=\"tag\">handhelds<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/n800\" rel=\"tag\">n800<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cheap\" rel=\"tag\">cheap<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/san%20francisco\" rel=\"tag\">san francisco<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/froogle\" rel=\"tag\">froogle<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Looking%20for%20a%20bargain%20N800%20in%20the%20USA%20-%20Froogle%20best%3F&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2007%2F04%2F16%2Flooking-for-a-bargain-n800-in-the-usa-froogle-best&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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