Barnes & Noble isn’t happy that the Kindle Fire has gobbled up tablet market share while their Nook Tablet is the better spec’d tablet. While the Nook Tablet costs only $50 more than the Kindle Fire, it looks like that $50 makes all the difference. To better compete against the Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble has decided to release an 8GB version of their Nook Tablet at the same price as the Kindle Fire. According to an internal Walmart document obtained by The Verge, this 8GB Nook Tablet is set to hit stores this Wednesday.

Earlier in the month, LG teased a largely square device with quite the interesting aspect ratio. We weren’t planning to get any official information on this device until Mobile World Congress but it looks like LG could’t keep this behemoth under wraps. Yesterday LG officially announced their 5″, 4.3 aspect ratio Optimus Vu. We now have a good look at what this device will offer besides its large square frame. You can expect the LG Optimus Vu to be packing:

It’s been a little over a week since HTC gave us an idea of which devices would be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich and when. Many were upset to see the HTC Thunderbolt missing from that list and it seems HTC didn’t want a riot on their hands as they’ve updated their list to now include the Thunderbolt. Today on Facebook, HTC announced a few more devices that will be getting Android 4.0 in the coming months. Devices include:

It’s only been 9 days since the last Transformer Prime update and ASUS is at it again. We’re not sure the specifics of this latest update but it appears to improve battery life. Most of their updates have been attempts to improve the Prime’s ongoing WiFi signal issues, but that doesn’t appear to be the case with this last update.

Well what do we have here? Could this be the next Motorola Atrix? This photo along with some rumored specs popped up on a few sites today and adds another quad-core smartphone into the pool of “we want now” devices. The photo shows a buttonless Motorola device that looks similar to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus. The lack of buttons would mean we are looking at an Android 4.0 device and if rumored specs are to believed, an incredibly powerful one.