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.


Google Maps was updated to version 6.1.1 today. It seems to be a fairly minor update, with the only listed change being “Fixes for bugs on tablets and phones.” Personally, I haven’t been having any issues, but it’s been reported that certain Honeycomb tablets had issues starting the Navigation app as well as quite a few phones experiencing problems with making phone calls from search results within Google Maps.

After a red-hot introduction and a hectic holiday period that left Apple looking over its shoulder, orders for Amazon’s $199 Kindle Fire tablet are slowing, cut in half to 3 million units for the first quarter of 2012, Friday reports claim. During the last three months of 2011, around 6 million of the devices flew off the shelves, making it Amazon’s best-selling product.


Rovio is at it again, this time with an Angry Birds Seasons update to celebrate the Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Dragon. In this blockbuster franchise update, our favorite angry aviators are allying themselves with the mythical mighty dragon to help thwart the imperial swine from swiping their offspring. This new theme features popping fireworks, glowing lanterns, and red envelopes bursting with money — all in celebration of China’s biggest and longest festival.

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