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Best Buy outs Beats Decade Collection in advance of Apple WWDC

The 10th-anniversary line is slated to start shipping on June 4.

Lori Grunin Senior Editor / Advice
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It looked like a mistake, but it turns out it wasn't. Best Buy on Friday launched an official presale for the Beats Decade Collection, fresh new designs for some of the headphone brand's best products. The collection will launch on Apple.com on May 29.

Beats, the headphone company acquired by Apple in 2014, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. 

Best Buy launched its microsite for the collection just over a week ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), which made us wonder if it had gone live in error. A Beats spokesperson assured us it had not.

The Collection consists of red-and-black models of:

They do seem to cost more -- the Studio3 is $350 instead of $249 for the regular black version -- but they might have different accessories.

Originally published at 11:17 a.m. ET.
Update 2:48 p.m. ET: Clarified that Best Buy did not set the microsite live in error, per a Beats spokesperson.

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