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I have some good news for Sprint customers looking to pick up the HTC EVO 4G LTE: looks like you’ll be able to easily unlock the bootloader with the Android SDK and instructions from HTCdev.com — unlike AT&T’s HTC One X. Why would anyone care about being able to unlock the bootloader? Well, it’s essentially the keys to the kingdom, allowing for full backups, modding, custom ROMs and just about any other hacking you can think of.

ASUS continues to lead the pack when it comes to updating their products to the latest version of Android. While everyone else drags their feet, ASUS is updating devices like the Eee Pad Slider — which we can’t imagine is a top seller. Nevertheless, they began pushing out the Android 4.0 update to Slider owners in the U.S. today, and continue to put other manufacturers and their empty promises to shame.

Believe it or not, it’s been one year since NVIDIA launched its Tegra Zone: a hub for easily finding Tegra optimized games. To celebrate Tegra Zone’s first birthday, NVIDIA has invited us all to partake in the inaugural TegraZone Player’s Choice Awards. To participate, all you have to do is head over to the Tegra Zone and vote for your favorite Tegra powered games.

International Galaxy Note users are being treated to Android 4.0 along with the new Premium Suite for the Galaxy Note. The update is rolling out to unlocked devices in the form of an over-the-air update in some areas and via Samsung’s Kies software in Germany.

So… about that Flipboard exclusivity on the Samsung Galaxy S III. Looks like an XDA member went ahead and extracted the Flipboard APK from the unreleased Galaxy S III and made it available to all. Silly companies and their backdoor deals, won’t they ever learn. They need to stop wasting their money on these deals and just start giving consumers what they want — because we’ll get it one way or another.

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