Since Comcast is the largest cable company in the country with twice as many homes-passed as its nearest competitor, many of our readers may be interested these soon expiring deals. From now until October 15th, you can save up to $260 on Broadband, Digital Cable, and Digital Voice services from Comcast through cash back and other freebies. You don’t have to sign up for all three so here are the individual discounts:

• $75 cash back on Comcast High-Speed Internet plus a free modem ($60 value) and free wireless router ($50 value) plus service is only $19.99 a month for 6 months.
• $75 cash back on Comcast Digital Cable.
• $25 cash back on Comcast Digital Voice including first month free, unlimited local and long distance, and free professional installation ($99 value).

Link: Up to $260 off Comcast

As far as we can tell the NextLink Bluespoon AX2 is one of the smallest Bluetooth headset on the market today. Weighing in at a mere 1/3 of an ounce and no larger than an an inch in each direction, the AX2 fits completely inside the ear while still maintaining a strong wireless signal and holding a charge for quite some time (talktime is estimated at 6 hours with almost 300 hours of standby). The AX2 includes a 3-button interface for accepting and ending calls and for volume control. The headset is charged through via USB through your PC or Mac using a provided cable that connects to the AX2’s mini USB port (. The Shopperism crew has had a chance to extensively test an AX2 which worked well with a Palm Treo and was very comfortable to wear and use.

If you’re looking for a good deal on the AX2, check out Overstock.com where you can buy a factory reconditioned model for a mere $29.95. Use this 10% off coupon (expires 10/31) and it’s $26.95. That’s a good deal on any headset but especially this one.

Bluespoon AX2 | Overstock.com | $29.95

I’m leading off this morning with a reminder of the latest discounts at Overstock.com:

• 10% off any order (expires 10/31/06)
• 15$ off any order of $125 (expires 10/15/06)

The Nokia E62 is now officially available from Cingular for $149.99 with a new account ($199.99 without). As we previously reported, the Nokia E62 and its unlocked big brother the Nokia E61 are strong competition to the Treo and Blackberry market. With the Motorola Q making a big push with its low cost, Cingular is promoting the Nokia E62 at a competitive price.

To paraphrase our previous review: The Nokia E62 is a thin but wide, metal-encased device with a full QWERTY thumbpad. It runs the latest version of Symbian and includes all the applications one can imagine such as email, address book, web browser (a very good one), document reader with Word support, and calendar. The phone includes Bluetooth and offers data connectivity using EDGE. The E62 supports Blackberry Connect, GoodLink, Exchange Mail, and Xpress Mail.

Link: Nokia E62 on Cingular

Thanks to Crunch Gear for the heads up

Wirefly is offering a free Sony Ericsson W300i Walkman Phone with a new Cingular account. Wirefly operates mobile phone stores for several major online merchants including eCost, Buy.com and AOL. You can also find the W300i at Amazon for 1 cent.

The W300i is one of Sony Ericsson’s latest Walkman phones which allows you to listen to your favorite MP3 and AAC files stored on a Memory Stick Micro or on the nearly 20MB of built-in memory. In addition to the music functionality, the W300i is a quadband phone with EDGE (for higher speed connectivity) and comes with Bluetooth, a Camera, and support for USB connectivity for PC synchronization of calendar and contacts. The clam shell style phone features a 128×160 pixel 262K color TFT screen with an external monochrome display.

Here is a list of merchants offering the W300i (unless otherwise noted, prices discounted with new Cingular account):

• Wirefly – Free
• Amazon – $0.01 (or unlocked without service for $239.99)
• Cingular – $39.99
• TigerDirect – $229.99 (unlocked without service)
• NewEgg – $229 (unlocked without service)
• CellularBlowout – $249.98 (unlocked without service)

After years of creating sleek black, grey, and white products, we recently noticed that Sony added color options to several lines of cameras and TVs. Now we know why.

Sony‘s latest marketing campaign focuses on what they’re calling My Style, where you pick from one of four color/personality combos which then promotes LCD TVs, laptops, headphones, MP3 players, and digital cameras all of which are in a design and style that matches the personality.

The four personalities are:

• Yellow – Described as “Contemporary culture, music and urban trends”. For this style, Sony is promoting high quality silver and black devices and cameras along with a Vaio laptop painted in yellow and red.
• Red – “Eye-catching patterns and a palette of colors to express my many moods”. Pink and red digital cameras and flowery designs.
• Green – “Rich or pastel colors, and simple, elegant patterns and shapes”. Classic silver and black products with some pastel colored MP3 players and laptops.
• Blue – “Streamlined functionality featuring modern or retro shapes and colors”. Black, blue, and silver products with very elegant and clean lines.

Again, the promoted products are all essentially the same, it’s really about the look of the various devices. I suspect this means that we should expect Sony to issue more styling options to its products. When you buy an LCD, for example, you will be able to pick a bezel color so you can match your style. It is also an attempt to push individuality, suggesting that there’s a Sony product to match various people.

We’ll keep track and see how far they take this campaign and we will of course update you on any developments.

Link: Sony My Style

Here’s what we learned on Shopperism this week:

• TMX Elmo is the new must have holiday gift and you can’t find it anywhere… except eBay
• Refurbished iPods are cheap ($99 to $220).
• The Sony Ericsson P990 may be the best phone ever. You can find out since it’s now on Amazon.
• How do you control 15 devices with one remote? You buy the Logitech Harmony 550 from Dell using coupon code X$NBJ52RR6HH36.
• If you are cool and old school you buy Adidas Originals
• Nothing beats fine British clothing except fine British clothing at up to 80% off.

The long-awaited debut of the Sony Ericsson P990i is now upon us so it is time to look at one of the most intriguing phones ever made. As of yesterday, it is officially available on Amazon for $649.99, the lowest we’ve seen so far (even better than eBay). The P990 is a tri-band GSM/GPRS world phone (900Mhz, 1800Mhz, and 1900Mhz — no 850Mhz for Cingular customers) with built in 802.11b WiFi, UMTS at 2100Mhz (Europe only), and Bluetooth 2.0.

A 240 x 320 260K color TFT touchscreen sits above a full QWERTY thumbpad which can be covered by a removable numberpad flap (not shown in photo). Above the screen is one of two cameras: the front camera is for video conferencing while the back camera is 2 megapixels with autofocus, 2.5x zoom, and a flash. Since the kitchen sink was too big, Sony Ericsson threw in an FM RDS tuner.

Running UIQ 3.0 on Symbian OS 9.1, the P990 includes a robust software package lead by a full phone and organizer suite which can be synced with Outlook and other PIM software using Intellisync or Activesync. The email client supports POP3, IMAP4, SMTP, BlackBerry Connect, Visto, and text messaging (SMS, EMS, and MMS). For web browsing, the great Opera 8.0 browser supports HTML, WAP, and xHTML while the RSS reader allows you to monitor your favorite feeds. Other bundled software includes a business card scanning software, a media player, a photo album, and several games.

With all these functions, the Li-Ion battery allows for 9 hours of talk time and 400 hours of standby time. Measuring at 4.4 x 2.2 x 1 inches and weighing in at 5.3 oz., the P990 may not be the smallest phone in the room but it is likely to offer more features than any other phone in the market.

Sony Ericsson P990 | Amazon | $649.99

Overstock really wants you to buy something from their site. Maybe it’s a Tag Heuer watch or a 37-inch LCD TV. We already know they sell almost everything — computers, electronics, phones, jewelry, watches, and clothing — at a good price. But now they’re offering a 15% off all orders coupon. This coupon expires on 9/21/06 so use it quickly. As always, make sure you read all the terms and conditions.