It's almost Black Friday! The day of madness and retail shopping. Actually with the economy the way it is, I welcome it this year. Go out and buy stuff PLEASE!
Of course you probably want to know where all the deals are. So I thought I would get you ready by giving you an iPhone app to use to keep up on all the potential savings.
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BF Deals
BF Deals is an iPhone/iPod touch app that dynamically pulls in the RSS feeds from all the popular Black Friday Websites. Well that's not really all that exciting. You could do the same thing with your own RSS reader. However, this app goes over and above by providing lots of useful features. First off you can enable Push Notifications to see the deals as they come in.
Once you see a deal in the list you want to investigate further, you can just tap on it to see the details.
The next thing I like is that you can tie into the shopper community! You can take pics of deals as YOU find them and upload them. Of course you can see other people's pics too.
The app has a built-in map and chat feature to chat with other users of the app and to see where the lines are or more importantly are NOT based on the amount of users in a particular area.
You can also share your findings on Twitter and Facebook directly from the App.
Lastly and probably one of my favorite features is that you can add a checklist right in the app itself. This way you won't forget to get an item because you got wrapped up in the moment.
The Bottom Line
I try to avoid this madness as much as possible! I'm not a get up at 5AM and stand in a long line outside in the cold kinda guy. However, if you enjoy this experience and want to maximize your savings potential, this app seems to offer the most. Also remember that there will be online deals listed too. Those will be the ones that I'll be looking at.
You can get BF Deals here from the App Store:
Happy Shopping! Also don't forget to checkout my 2009 Holiday Gadget Gift Guide!
P.S. If you're going to be out there with an iPhone this holiday season doing your shopping, you should probably arm yourself with a price comparison app. My favorite is RedLaser, however you should also check out ShopSavvy (FREE) and Save Benjis.
You gotta love the BF Deals startup screen! It reminds me why I don't get wrapped up in this annual event 
Lastly, check out my other iPhone App of the Week picks here.
BF Deals
BF Deals brings all the popular Black Friday Deal site RSS feeds to one place. It has a great social aspect too.
- Michael Muni
- Get on App Store
- $3.99
All info was collected on 20th November, 2009 when the app was reviewed.
About Terry White
Terry is the co-author of The Best Selling "The iPhone Book" 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th editions. He has been active in the industry for over 25 years and is the founder and president of MacGroup-Detroit, Inc., Michigan's largest Macintosh Users Group, host of the Adobe Creative Suite Podcast and a technology writer - Terry White Tech Blog.
Just wanted to let everyone know that version 2.0 has been set into the app store for review and should be ready for download any day now.
Also the app is now free!!!!!