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Amazon is offering up the HTC Rezound for a price that not even Dr. Dre can beat. The Rezound is a top tier device that hasn’t garnered the respect it deserves due to bad release timing (RAZR and Galaxy Nexus). Amazon is now offering the Rezound for only $149.99 to anyone wishing to sign up for a new 2-year contract or any existing customer with a qualifying upgrade. $149.99 really is an amazing price for a device that features specs like these:

ARCHOS has been at the low-cost Android tablet game for quite some time but has yet to really make a splash. They’re hoping to change all that and piggy back off of the recent success of low-cost tablets such as the Kindle Fire. Today they have announced their plans to launch the first ever Honeycomb tablet for under $200. The majority of sub $200 tablets have been running on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) and even though Ice Cream Sandwich is right around the corner, having a Honeycomb tablet that costs less than $200 might just attract some post holiday interest. Let’s take a look at what we know so far about the ARCHOS 70b and what it plans to bring to the table.


The burning question on the minds of most Android users is: “Will my device be getting upgraded to the latest OS?” Many users are still stuck on contracts, and considering a “new and improved” device comes out almost monthly, it would be financially irresponsible to keep buying these devices at full cost. Today Samsung has announced its international list of devices that are scheduled to receive the Ice Cream Sandwich update. Samsung hasn’t announced any concrete time table as to when, but we do have an idea of which ones will be first. Let’s take a look at which Samsung devices are expected to see Android 4.0 and whether there’s cause for you to jump up and down.