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If you are a Sprint Premier Customer, and you are planning to purchase eccentric dual-screen Android smartphone listen up. Its due to launch in three days, but the wireless company is now offering its loyal customers a chance to order the Echo right now. If you decide to jump the gun, you will be happy to know Sprint is waiving upgrade fees and will ship you the device for zero bucks.

Verizon has finally pushed out version 1.9 of its Media Guide Software to set-top boxes in Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany and Harrisburg. Other regions will be expected to be upgraded in a couple of months. If you have forgotten whats coming with this software, here are the new features: a wide screen HD guide, (its replacing the old 4*3 SD one), support for switching 3DTVs into correct mode automatically, native passthrough, 1080p, external hard drives, DVD style capturing on DVR recordings, new search functions, and access to DVR recordings from boxes in the house.

Word on the street is that Samsung will not be able to meets its demand of 6 inch to 9 inch variants of AMOLED displays for the tablet market this year. Due to recent earthquake and tsunami disasters in Japan, Samsung is facing few problems including a delay in receiving scanners for these displays production lines from Nikon.

After months of fighting between these both, Motorola and Huawei have finally come to an agreement to settle their differences once and for all. Both of them dropped their pending lawsuits, with Motorola originally accusing Huawei of stealing trade secrets from its former employees, and later on Huawei getting all worried about Motorola leaking confidential information over their partnership revealing Nokia Siemens Networks.

Check out the A4 and A3 paper sized AeroBee terminals from Bridgestone. The company unveiled two new tablets with 21-inch and 13-inch colour e-paper screens the largest available on the market. You can check them in the video; dont get too excited, these beasts arent destined for consumers. They are being marketed to businesses which will likely use them as in-store displays.

Gigabytes S1080 is about as far as you can get from an iPad, with its dual-core Atom N550 processor, 320GB hard disk and Ethernet port. It runs on Windows 7. The company is going head to head with Apples magic slate it is just priced the 10-inch, 3G enabled tablet at NT$22,900($787), a shade higher than the NT$22,800 price of first generation iPad with 3G with 64GB storage. If you have Windows tablet with mouse buttons, with all the things, though finding a cheaper Window slate should be cinch.