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If you’ve been in the market for an Android tablet, you can now add another option to the slew of Android tablets you have to choose from. The Acer Iconia A200 is now being offered at Best Buy for the mid-range price of $349.99. That price isn’t much higher than what we reported a couple weeks ago, although we were a couple days off on the release date. If you missed our earlier coverage, the Acer Iconia A200 features:


When Sprint updated the HTC EVO 3D, they slyly removed the infamous Carrier IQ, and called it a “security update.” We soon got wind that Sprint was planning to remove Carrier IQ from all its handsets, and not soon after, HTC chimed in and confirmed Sprint’s plans. It appears they are continuing with these “security updates,” as they have now released them to three more devices: the HTC EVO 4G, EVO Design 4G, and the Samsung Epic 4G.


You see that alien looking band permeating through the aurora borealis? No, that’s not a UFO looking for fuel, it’s actually Nike’s latest fitness accessories made for today’s connected world. Nike wants to remind us that “Life is a sport, make it count,” and that’s exactly what the Nike+ FuelBand does — count. It counts your calories burned, steps taken, time, as well as a variety of other activity.


You may remember the ARCHOS 35 Smart Home Phone we showed you last month, you know, the home phone with Android on it. Well, it’s now available to purchase in the UK, and the 8GB model will set you back £129.98, including taxes. The ARCHOS 35 takes the “smart” from smartphone, and puts it into your home phone.


Apparently HTC’s mega-beast quad-core handset is suffering from quite the identity crisis. We’ve come to know it as the HTC Edge up until just recently when PocketNow reported that HTC went ahead and changed the codename to Endeavor. It’s supposed to undergo another name change to Supreme, once it hits retail shelves, but as PocketNow points out, while retail names often see multiple name variances, codenames usually remain the same to help distinguish them internally.

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