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The best deals we found in Best Buy's 'Treat Yourself' sale
Best Buy's latest sale tries to inject some variety into the many early Black Friday deals we've been seeing since the end of last month. The company appears to be celebrating Single's Day with its one-day-only "treat yourself" sale, which discounts a number of video games, smart home devices, wearables and more. Whether you decide to pick something up for yourself or someone on your list, there are a handful of decent tech deals in this sale -- and Amazon's matching a couple of them. We gathered them all here so you don't have to search for them. The Sonos Five, which was previously called the Sonos Play:5, is $100 off at Best Buy, bringing it down to $399.
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Fitbit's new Versa 3, Inspire 2 have minor changes, higher starting prices
Alongside its brand-new biometric tracking Sense smartwatch, Fitbit on Tuesday also unveiled updates to its Versa and Inspire devices, bringing new features, including onboard GPS and 10-day battery life–but there's a catch. Fitbit has eliminated both lines' low-end models, so where the Inspire previously started at $70 and the Versa 2 at $200, prices have been bumped to $100 and $230, respectively. Most notably, the Inspire 2 no longer has an option without a heart-rate sensor, so you get advanced fitness features and all-day tracking just like Fitbit's other devices. In fact, Fitbit will no longer sell a tracker that isn't equipped with a heart-rate monitor, so $100 is the cheapest adult Fitbit you can buy now. Also coming to the Inspire 2 are Active Zone Minutes, which tracks "time spent in the fat burn, cardio, or peak heart-rate zones" throughout the day, along with a brighter screen, haptic button, and "an enhanced stylish, slim design," which is practically identical to the original Inspire.
DJI Debuts the New, Drool-Worthy Phantom 4 Pro Drone
DJI's Phantom line of consumer drones is the 800-pound gorilla of the industry. And now, the company's latest flying machine, the Phantom 4 Pro, looks like it's poised to be the new king of the skies. The Phantom 4 Pro is an upgrade from last year's Phantom 4. You can now fly a full 31 miles per hour while obstacle avoidance is engaged. Previously, if you wanted to go that fast, you had to put the drone into Sport Mode, which disengaged crash avoidance. It has rear sensors now, too, so you have obstacle avoidance even when you're backing up.
More new drones from DJI, aimed at pros
Chinese drone maker DJI unveiled two new drones aimed at advanced amateurs and filmmakers here Tuesday on the Warner Bros. studio backlot. The introduction comes just weeks after DJI introduced its lowest-priced, consumer drone, Mavic, which has been plagued by production issues. DJI says orders for the $750 (without controller) or full-service $999 Mavic will be filled in 4-6 weeks. The Mavic's main competition, the $1,100 GoPro Karma, was released in October and recalled two weeks later, after reports of the Karma losing power during filming. The Phantom Pro 4 is aimed at drone enthusiasts, starting at $1,499, and starts shipping next week.
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DJI's newest drones are built for filmmakers
Turns out that DJI's Mavik wasn't the company's only new airframe for the year. On Tuesday, a pair of updated drone models joined the family: the Phantom 4 Pro and the Inspire 2. The Phantom 4 Pro (P4P) is the upgraded version of the Phantom 4 (P4), which debuted earlier this year. The P4, if you recall, integrated a suite of obstacle avoidance systems: a pair of stereoscopic sensors mounted on the front of the drone. The P4P builds on that system, adding a second pair of stereoscopic sensors on the rear of the frame as well as an infrared sensor on either flank. These IR sensors have a 7m range -- shorter than the 30m range of the front and rear stereos but still plenty farsighted to avoid sideswiping trees and fences.
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