LG is offering 2021 4K smart TV owners in select markets a free Priority membership to Nvidia GeForce Now for six months, said the companies Thursday. The half-year membership is open to customers who buy a qualifying LG 2021 smart TV model beginning Tuesday through March 20; customers are required to download and install GeForce Now on their TVs. LG TV models supporting GeForce Now are OLED TV models G1, C1, B1, A1; QNED Mini LED TV models QNED90, QNED85; NanoCell NANO90, NANO85, NANO80, NANO77, NANO75 TVs; and UHD TV models UP80, UP77 and UP75, LG said. GeForce Now requires a compatible controller for gameplay; 800 controller-based games are available, with more to come, LG said. Subscribers must own titles to play; free-to-play games vary by market, it said.
Google emailed a last call Thursday on special offers for Nest products at the Google Store. The Nest Mini smart speaker is half off to $25, Nest Hub is $40 off to $60, Hub Max is $40 off to $190 and Nest Audio is discounted by $25 to $75. The Fitbit Sense smartwatch is marked down $100 to $200, Fitbit Charge 5 tracker is $30 off to $150 and the Luxe tracker is shaved by $20 to $130. Sale prices end Sunday.
Verizon’s no-contract Visible service is offering prospective customers a free trial so they can compare their existing service to Visible, with no commitment or credit card needed, it said Thursday. The 15-day trial requires an eligible iPhone: SE 2020, XR, XS, and the 11, 12 series and 13 series models. Users can continue to use their current service and phone number, Verizon said. The promotion is part of Visible’s “commitment to eSIM,” launched in February, which it sees as a growth driver. The service plans to become 100% eSIM-centric in the future, it said. Visible’s unlimited plans start at $25 monthly.
Mint Mobile should stop calling its data plans “unlimited,” a National Advertising Review Board panel ruled, after a challenge by AT&T. Customers who use data above a specified limit have the service slowed to 2G speeds and “throttling to 2G does not provide ‘unlimited’ data as consumers understand that term,” NARB said Tuesday. Mint said it “supports the self-regulatory process and will comply with NARB’s decision, although it disagrees.” NARB is part of the Better Business Bureau's National Advertising Division.
Lenovo announced discounts up to 50% in a Boxing Day Sale that begins Tuesday exclusively on the Lenovo.com e-commerce site. It extended free expedited shipping on items bought Dec. 17-20 on most in-stock products to ensure products arrive in time for the holidays, said the company Friday. Tuesday-Sunday, select IdeaPad laptops will start under $400, Yoga laptops will be discounted up to 34% and ThinkPads up to half off. Yoga active noise cancellation headphones are 46% off to $110, wireless earbuds start at $19 and a TAB M7 kids’ tablet bundle is $94. Deals Dec. 20-31 include laptops up to 34% off, a Chromebook Duet under $299 and webcams under $32. New deals will launch at 3 a.m. EST Dec. 26 when the Yoga C940 14-inch laptop will be $1,219, it said.
Clarification: U.S. customers who buy one of three Stewart Filmscreen screen masking systems can get $1,000 off the list price of any “qualifying” Kaleidescape home theater system in a promotional offer that runs through Dec. 31, 2022 (see 2112010032).
Customers who buy one of three Stewart Filmscreen screen masking systems can get $1,000 off the list price of any “qualifying” Kaleidescape home theater system, said the companies Wednesday. The collaboration will render “unparalleled presentation masking" for private cinemas, they said. The promotional offer runs through Dec. 31.
T-Mobile partnered with Hasbro on a limited-edition Lite Brite T-Mobile Edition box ($19.99) for the holiday season, said the companies Tuesday. The game has 184 magenta pegs along with the traditional Lite Brite pegs and comes with four “wireless-inspired” templates. Users can download and upload additional design templates at the 5G Lite Brite website, they said. Four boxes in the series will have a Magenta Ticket, good for a “5G Experience of a Lite-time” for four winners, who will get an all-expenses paid trip for two to an event of their choosing at T-Mobile venues in Seattle, Kansas City or Las Vegas, they said. Winners also receive a prize pack including two 5G smartphones with a free year of Magenta Max wireless service, an HDTV and a free year of T-Mobile Home internet service, they said.
“Too Big to Miss” is the theme of a Hisense social media ad campaign launched Sunday to begin the one-year countdown to the opening of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Hisense is supporting the campaign with a sweepstakes promotion offering fans the chance to win World Cup tickets, Hisense products or national team jerseys, said the TV vendor Sunday. Hisense in April announced itself as an official 2022 World Cup sponsor.
AT&T’s claims that it offers a “faster internet experience” than cable for large file uploads was supported “in the context in which it was presented, as well as the claim that AT&T Internet delivers ‘consistent speed, even at peak times,’” the Better Business Bureau’s National Advertising Division said Thursday. NAD recommended AT&T drop or modify “other challenged comparative performance, pricing, and bandwidth claims.” NAD looked at the claims after a complaint by Charter Communications. AT&T should make clear the difference between different tiers of service it offers, NAD said: AT&T should modify ads to “delineate the tier of service with ‘up to 20x faster upload speed,’ and, if stating a price offer, clearly and conspicuously disclose to which tier of service the offer applies.” AT&T and Charter didn’t comment.