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We’ve all heard stories of celebrities and their high-priced diamond encrusted phones, but have you heard the one about Best Buy selling a run-of-the-mill HTC EVO 4G LTE for $99,999.99? It’s an obvious mistake but if you head over to the Best Buy site now, that’s the current price of an off-contract HTC EVO 4G LTE device. Talk about sticker shock! I bet if it wasn’t a mistake, there would be some rich fool out there that would actually buy it just to say he did. Anyways, it gave us a good chuckle.

HTC users have been patiently waiting for the next iteration of devices to hit shelves and replace their aging devices. While most carriers have been granting user’s wishes in the form of the HTC One X and One S, Verizon will be filling that need with the DROID Incredible 4G LTE. Officially announced today, the DROID Incredible 4G LTE will be a huge step up from the previous Incredible 2 and will feature:

Verizon has announced its plans to lead the text-to-911 initiative here in the US. Starting early 2013, Verizon customers will be able to send 911 SMS texts to emergency call centers. This new way of communicating with 911 call centers is a great step forward in public safety and allows for those in need to relay information in cases when calling or talking are difficult.

The uber-popular social drawing app Draw Something, appears to be drawing less attention ever since Zynga bought out the game’s creators OMGPOP for $200 million. According to Atlantic Wire magazine, the month after Zynga’s purchase, the app saw a 5 million user drop in daily usage. That’s a pretty significant drop, whether directly related remains unknown, but it’s either that, or people have simply lost interest in the game.

As you may already know, yesterday Samsung held an event in London to unveil the “next Galaxy.” The event itself was full of serene images and orchestrated music, and was a delight to watch. Oh yea, and they also showed off some new phone, umm… what was it called? That’s right, the Samsung Galaxy S III. Kidding aside, you may have already heard all about Samsung’s new beast of a device but still wish you could have seen the event. Well, now you can.

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