Psst. I’ve got a little secret to share with you. If you’re thinking about picking up a new tablet device and you’ve got your eyes set on the G-Slate from T-Mobile, there’s a way to get it for $100 less than the $530 advertised price.

You ready for it? Okay, here goes: Call them and ask for the discount. Instead of going to a physical retail location, simply ring them up on the phone and say that you want the G-Slate, quoting promo code GSLATE100 if they ask for it. That’s the good news.

Unfortunately, it comes with a fair bit of baggage. In order to qualify for this price, you need to already have a voice plan (or get one) and you need to sign up for a two-year data contract too. There’s also a pesky mail-in rebate.

Really, T-Mobile? $430 for a tablet on contract? Considering that most of the other tablets out there — PlayBook, Galaxy Tab, iPad — can be had for $500 or so out of contract, this doesn’t sound like much of a deal anymore. Don’t be fooled by that unlimited data plan either.

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E-readers are getting a lot cheaper. Remember, it wasn’t all that long ago that the Amazon Kindle would run you north of $300, which puts you in the midst of full on Android tablet territory these days. You can get a Kobo for about $150, but it looks like Amazon is undercutting that even further down to $114.

But alas, there’s a catch and it’s not one to be ignored. You see, in order to get your hands on that just a little more than a Benjamin-priced Kindle, you have to put up with having advertisements take up some of that precious screen real estate. The ad-supported Kindle will have banners show up both on the home screen and in screensavers, but thankfully the ads aren’t in the e-books themselves.

For $114, you get the 6-inch Kindle with Wi-Fi, which normally retails for $139. What this means is that a lifetime of advertisements on your e-reader effectively puts $25 (and tax) back into your pocket. Whether or not you feel this represents a good enough value to endure the ads is up to you.

For my part, I wouldn’t do it. The tipping point is when these mass market e-readers have a MSRP of $99 or less. I’ve seen a few hit that price point already, so I know we’re close. The other hindrance? E-books really aren’t that much cheaper than their dead tree counterparts.

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Instead of paying the full $199.99 contract price via AT&T, you can mosey on over to the monstrosity of a megastore to find the exact same phoen for $129.99. If you can’t figure it out from some quick math, that’s a cool $70, giving you plenty of extra coin to splurge on the overpriced laptop dock or multimedia dock.

The down side in this? Oddly enough, Walmart is not going to carry the Laptop Dock accessory nor is it to going to sell the Multimedia dock, at least for now. So, while you can score a pretty great deal on a hot and powerful Android phone from Moto through them, you’ll need to drive to the other mall to get your accessories on… but at least you’ll have an extra seventy bucks to make that drive.

Let’s just hope that the Atrix 4G is really 4G, unlike h

[Mobile Burn via WalMart]

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The economy is going through some tough times and Peek wants to cut you some slack, especially since some of the direct competitors in the market are hitting up the lower end of the price scale too. Cheap is good when you’re watching your wallet, right?

As such, the original Peek Classic handheld has been bumped down to just twenty bucks. For a little more style and flash, you can go for the Peek Pronto. The latter has been knocked down to just $60. Both of those are much cheaper than even a $99 iPhone or BlackBerry Curve.

The bad news is that they’re not cutting any slack when it comes to the monthly service. Unlimited wireless email on either Peek handheld will still run you $20 a month. Remember that the Peek is not a cell phone; it’s a mobile email device.

Given that price, I’d be more inclined to get an all-in-one device, no? The contract price on several smartphones is south of $100 these days. Unlimited email through some carriers is only $15 a month.

Source: WSJ

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