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One of our big hopes for Black Friday this year was to see a hefty discount on the excellent DJI Osmo Pocket camera – and our dreams just came true, with excellent deals that have slashed the camera’s price by 21% in the UK and 25% in the US.

The Osmo Pocket is a tiny, gimbal-stabilised camera that lets you shoot sweeping, cinematic 4K videos from something that’s no bigger than an electric toothbrush.

DJI had already announced a £50 discount in its Winter Holiday Sale for the Osmo Pocket in the UK, but now Amazon has taken a further £20 off to bring it down to its lowest price yet of £259. In the US, Amazon has simply slashed $100 off the Osmo Pocket’s original price, bringing it down to an unbeatable $299.

As you can tell, we’re big fans of this pocketable camera, which is like a miniaturized version of the DJI Osmo Mobile 3. While the latter works with your smartphone, the Osmo Pocket is in many ways more convenient, as it doesn’t hold your phone hostage and shoots excellent 4K video at 60fps.

In our tests, we found that the Osmo Pocket shoots slightly better-quality video than today’s top-end smartphones. The real difference, though, are those camera moves that the gimbal-stabilized Osmo Pocket can pull off, which allow you to pan and tilt with cinematic smoothness.

Another real bonus is the Face Tracking available in the companion app, which makes the Osmo Pocket a fantastic choice for solo vloggers – while you move around, it’ll keep your face in the middle of the frame.

There’s nothing else out there quite like the Osmo Pocket, which is why it’s such a great buy at this new-low Black Friday price.

TechRadar is scouring every retailer and rounding up all the top deals over the Black Friday period, and we’ve put all the best Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday deals in easy-to-navigate articles to help you find the bargains you’re looking for.

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HP had a brilliant Black Friday deal, where it cut the price of the HP Laptop 15t $1,349.99 down to an astonishingly low $499.99.

The deal has been going wild throughout Black Friday, and all good things must come to an end, and the price has now gone back up to where it was originally.

If you missed out, don’t worry, as we have some great alternatives below. Also, make sure you check out our best Black Friday laptop deals page for more great offers that are still live.

TechRadar is scouring every retailer and rounding up all the top deals over the Black Friday period, and we’ve put all the best Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday deals in easy-to-navigate articles to help you find the bargains you’re looking for. 

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Following the reveal of Half-Life: Alyx last week – the next outing in the heavyweight shooter franchise – Valve’s Index VR headset has now sold out, at least in the US and Canada (possibly in other regions, too).

This could be one measure of just how popular Half-Life: Alyx might be when it’s released in March 2020, and perhaps more to the point, how much more popular it could make VR gaming.

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As Road to VR observes, most of the different packages of Valve’s VR headset, including the standalone headset, along with the headset plus controller bundle (and the controllers-only option) don’t have any units left, with a ‘back in stock soon’ message having replaced the order button.

For the Index to sell out like this seems like a strong indication that Half-Life Alyx could be doing what is arguably its main job – hyping and driving VR adoption – and considering just how expensive this particular headset is, it’s successful.

In previous months, the Index has constantly been in stock, with the only inventory issues experienced with the initial flurry of orders at launch – or equally, that could have been a supply issue, as much as a demand problem.

Either way, as expensive as the Valve Index is, it’s sold out in the US, even without any big Black Friday deals. The headset is still available in the UK, though. 

Timing is everything

However, speaking of Black Friday, it brings up an interesting point regarding Valve’s timing of the revelation of Half-Life: Alyx. It came, of course, just before Black Friday week, the start of which witnessed all the big pre-Black Friday discounts rolling into town.

Including some deals on lower-end VR headsets, which Valve has made sure to support with Alyx – even Windows Mixed Reality headsets and the Oculus Quest, which can be hooked up to a PC via the Oculus Link cable.

So the aim was evidently to create a big spike of interest in virtual reality just as some VR hardware (if not Valve’s own headset) got hit with price reductions, in order to more effectively usher people onto the VR adoption train.

And, a big spike of interest there most certainly was, at least going by search terms on Google Trends. For example, the search for ‘Index VR headset’ spiked fourfold during the week the game was announced, compared to the previous week. It’s important to remember, though, that Half-Life: Alyx was only known about in the latter half of the week, so that’s where all the impact would have been felt.

All this would seem to lend more credence to the argument that Half-Life: Alyx is a vehicle to push VR, but judging from what we’ve seen far, it’s no mere novelty of a game. At least if it holds up to the early promise, this could be the title to make VR gaming finally go mainstream in a big way. Indeed, we’ve recently argued that Alyx is a gambit where the very future of VR gaming is at stake, no less.

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The Black Friday 2019 sales have slashed the prices of some of the best phones of 2019, and among these are Samsung’s newest smartphones, which have received a whopping $300 discount (if you’re not in the US, there are discounts for you too – scroll down).

The Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus are both available with this sizeable discount in the Best Buy Black Friday sales, bringing the price of the 256GB storage version of each to $649.99 and $799.99 respectively. For phones that are only a few months old, that’s a fantastic deal.

The smartphones are top-end devices with snappy processors, beautiful screens, fantastic cameras and a stylus for easy annotation and note-taking. They’re great smartphones for people who want to splash out for the best tech, but on Black Friday, they’re relatively affordable.

To receive the $300 discount from Best Buy, you must activate your phone from AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon. If you’re not interested in activating your phone today, you can still save $200 and activate with a carrier at your convenience.

If you’re not in the US, you can see today’s best deals on the Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus phone where you are below.

TechRadar is scouring every retailer and rounding up all the top deals over the Black Friday period, and we’ve put all the best Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday deals in easy-to-navigate articles to help you find the bargains you’re looking for.

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It’s one of life’s greatest conundrums…do you take the plunge and pour all of your money into an iPhone 11 Pro deal, leaving you with a shiny new phone, an empty wallet and the need to give up on all material niceties for the next year!

Yes, 1) we’re being over-dramatic and 2) right now you can push that quandary to the side – it’s Black Friday! And as any budget-savvy shopper looking for a bargain knows, that means tech across the entire spectrum has dropped in price, including the iPhone 11 Pro.

And it’s not just one impressive iPhone 11 Pro deal we’ve seen pop up, there’s a host of them! But to make things easy for you and not overload you with choice, we’ve managed to narrow it down to a solid four-deal selection, bringing you the best of the best.

You can see all of these deals down below or take a trek over to our Black Friday iPhone deals guide to see what else is available this weekend. Or, if you’re not already trapped into Apple’s eco-system, expand your choices with our Black Friday phone deals guide.

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So what’s so good about the iPhone 11 Pro?

Yes, it’s one of Apple’s most expensive devices available but it is clear to see why. Pumping out top of the line specs, any major Apple fan will be pulled in.

Whether its the market’s fastest CPU, the 3045mAh battery, the stunning Super Retina XDR OLED display (very high definition in normal language) or the triple camera set-up, the iPhone 11 Pro really is top of the line.

Read our full iPhone 11 Pro review

• See the competition with our Samsung phone deals and Huawei Phone deals guides

TechRadar is scouring every retailer and rounding up all the top deals over the Black Friday period, and we’ve put all the best Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday deals in easy-to-navigate articles to help you find the bargains you’re looking for. 

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The new MacBook Air is characterized by a sleek new design, a built-in Touch ID sensor and a Retina display. To top it off, there’s a sweet Black Friday MacBook deal at Micro Center that makes this awesome laptop even better. 

Right now you can pick up the 2019 MacBook Air with an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of RAM and a 128GB SSD for just $779, down $320 from its list price of $1,099. However, if you want to take advantage of this sweet Black Friday laptop deal, you’re going to have to go down to your local Micro Center (if you luckily have one nearby). We think this deal is absolutely worth the extra effort. 

Now, it should be noted that this computer is designed first and foremost for everyday computing tasks – think checking your email, surfing the web or maybe some light Photoshop work. A MacBook Pro, this is not. But the discounted $779 pricetag is the perfect price for what the MacBook Air offers users – even Apple haters won’t be able to argue there. 

It does come with the oft-maligned Butterfly keyboard that was swapped out in the newest MacBook Pro, but at least Apple will replace it if anything bad happens. At the end of the day, if you’re just looking for a sleek laptop for school or home, that you can show off in your local Starbucks, you can’t go wrong here. 

We do realize that not a ton of people live within convenient distance to a Micro Center, but luckily there are plenty of awesome Black Friday Mac deals available right now, so we went ahead and listed some more down below. 

Black Friday deals around the web

• Amazon.com: Black Friday countdown 
• Adidas.com: Sales on trainingwear
• Belk.com: Daily doorbusters – 75% off
• BestBuy.com: Today’s daily deals
• Dell: Sales incoming on Black Friday
• Disney Plus:  Get a free 7-day free trial here
• Google Store: Large sums off Pixel phones
• HomeDepot.com: Daily deal Black Friday savings
• JCPenney.com: Pre-Black Friday deals
• Kohls.com: Coupons aplenty in big sale
• Lowes.com: Deals on tools and smart home
• Mixbook: See the new Black Fri-yay deals
• NewEgg.com: Pre-Black Friday deals
• Nike.com: Big savings on apparel
• Sears.com: Hefty savings on TVs
• Stage.com: Up to 60% off a range of apparel
• Target.com: Sneak Peek deals
• Walmart.com: The early Black Friday sales

• TechRadar is scouring every retailer and rounding up all the top deals over the Black Friday period, and we’ve put all the best Black Friday deals and Cyber Monday deals in easy-to-navigate articles to help you find the bargains you’re looking for. 

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