There’s Xbox 360 going for S$399 with freebies like Webcam and charger, and $0 phones like Motorola Q offered by SingTel… but one of the fastest price drops and best deals is Western Digital’s Element portable drives.

The no-frills 2.5-inch external drives are going for $119 (previously $149) for a 250GB unit at various booths, and is one of the cheapest external drives you can get (Sim Lim sells a bare 2.5-inch drive for $111 cheapest).

Go down there and grab the bargains…

One day (or rather hours) before the number port exercise kicks in, the battle begins at the PC Show, where SingTel and StarHub are readying $0 PDAs and extra $100 here and there to get switchers who have been waiting to choose a better deal elsewhere.

Besides big print ads in ST, StarHub has also come up with a website (www.choosefreedom.com.sg) which gives you a calculator to compare StarHub plans to any other M1 or SingTel plan directly. Talk about direct rivalry.

And in a nod to new media, the “green” folks have also set up a Facebook group for people who “choose freedom”…

Of course, we all know that’s all the freedom we get now – until we sell our souls for $300-$400 a phone with a two-year deal with one of these telcos!

In any case, if there’s any time to sell your soul for a cheap phone bargain, it is now, as the telcos fight it out for your signature. StarHub has a midnite gig going on tonight at Plaza Singapura (a gimmick unless you want another $100 discount for that phone), and you can expect fireworks at PC Show…

Let the bargains begin!

Do we really fancy jabbing our fingers at a VERY large touch-screen monitor, like 22-inches wide, all the time? HP says yay to the idea with its “closer to B&O than HP” TouchSmart IQ500 PC unwrapped yesterday in its conference in Berlin. In the interest of combating greasy fingers, the company better also sell lots of wiping alcohol to go with this drool-worthy PC, which it sez will sell for US$1,399 later this month across Asia Pacific, according to this report. Better quit that habit of snacking on chicken wings while surfing the Web if you are lusting after one.