We could be looking at the end of RadioShack, boys and girls. The company is said to be exploring a strategic partnership, or outright sale, possibly to Best Buy. I don’t see why Best Buy would be interested: what does RadioShack sell that’s either A) not already available or B) entirely too niche for its Wal-Mart approach to selling consumer electronics?

JPMorgan Chase is supposedly in charge of figuring out how to handle the merger or sale or whatever it ends up being.

The only reason why Best Buy might be interested is because of RadioShack’s success in the cellphone business. I guess RadioShack does a fairly OK job of selling phones and accessories and whatnot, and its small stores could play into Best Buy’s “we need more, smaller stores in malls, people!” modus operandi.

Or, and this is a twist, perhaps rather than selling to Best Buy (or someone else), perhaps RadioShack could use some of the money it has on hand—$900 million—to gobble up some other store! Now that would be unexpected.

I’m trying to think the last time I bought something from RadioShack… it might have been solder for when I hacked my Xbox1 in 2003. So yeah, it’s been a little while. The store always seemed sorta dingy to me, like the lighting was messed up.

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This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Boost Mobile. All opinions are 100% mine.

By David Ponce

Boost Mobile is launching the SANYO Incognito SCP6760, a QWERTY handset with the following features:

2MP camera with VGA camcorder

2.6-inch, 320×240 screen

Touch-sensitive keypad and OLED display

Haptic feedback

MicroSD memory card slot that supports up to 16GB

MMS, stereo Bluetooth, a voice recorder, voice-activated dialing

GPS support

Bundled with Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter apps

Boost Mobile offers a $50 Unlimited talk, text, Internet, taxes and fees plan; the great thing is that they don’t require a contract. The phone itself is priced at $129.99 (excluding taxes) if purchased online through the link provided below.

If you’re not familiar with Boost Mobile, they are division of Sprint Nextel and the service for this particular device runs on Sprint’s nationwide CDMA network. Aside from being able to purchase this handset online, the company is hoping to expand retail distribution to RadioShack as well as Target and Walmart soon.

Keep reading for a bunch more pictures of the Incognito SCP6760, and links.

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The Onion, always good for a quick larf, just posted a list of great new devices launched at CES including but not limited to:

Radioshack—Big Sack of Adapters: The right one is probably in there somewhere

Bose—Noise-Postponing Headphones: Using Bose’s patented SoundDelay technology, these headphones store ambient distractions for up to six hours before unleashing them all at once against the wearer’s eardrums.

iTunes—”Taylor Swift Breathes”: Using nanotechnology, this new MP3 enables you to feel Taylor Swift’s hot breath on your neck as she sings

Interestingly, they didn’t mention the WristOffice which definitely gets our vote for best product of CES. You can read the Onion article right here.