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When we stumbled upon an $800 price for the Motorola Xoom yesterday, our instinctive reaction was to leap forward to the next obvious question: when? Well, that call has now been answered by an internal Best Buy document that’s just dropped into our inbox, which explicitly pinpoints February 17th as the launch date for Moto’s highly touted, Honeycomb-equipped tablet. Stock is expected to land at the big box retailer on February 16th, with the big party going down the day after. There’s a note confirming that the Xoom will come with its promised 32GB of onboard storage, but anyone looking for confirmation or denial of the earlier pricing leak will be left disappointed. Guess we’ll all have to set our calendar alerts for about a month from now and exercise patience in the mean time.

[Thanks, dajarbot]

Update: Our tipster has also uncovered a price: $699.99. That’s a hundred green leaves south of Verizon’s supposed pricing and should soothe a few agitated souls.

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We’ve always taken Art Lebedev‘s product launch forecasts with a grain handful of salt, so this doesn’t come as a surprise: the firm’s sub-$1,000 OLED keyboard won’t be out anytime soon. However, the second thing the indie peripheral design house revealed today makes us giddy despite our misgivings — before the full-sized Optimus Popularis comes to market, it’s planning to release a new miniature keypad like the Optimus mini three (pictured above) but with six keys inside. Still… is it bad if all we really want is an Optimus Aux prototype?

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Back in October we speculated that multiple IM support was going to be coming to Google Chat after taking a look through the source code and finding info regarding Jabber transports. Sure enough, IM support is now available in Gmail Chat but the only messenger service they’re currently supporting is AOL’s instant messenger. Unfortunately this is a Gmail Chat only option and won’t be available for those using Google Talk. Surprised? Me neither. Once again, Google is shunning Google Talk…

So here’s how it works, sign in to your Gmail account with chat enabled. At the bottom of your contacts list, look for the upside down arrow next to “options” and click it.  You’ll notice that the first option is “sign into AIM.” Click it and then a box will pop-up where you’ll be able to sign-in with your AIM screen name and password. Once you’re signed in, you’ll be able to easily chat to both your Gmail Chat contacts and your AOL buddies.

The official announcement from Google explains how this is just one of many new features they plan on launching with the new code structure they have in place for Gmail. Interestingly enough, in the aforementioned article from October, there were a few additional features we mentioned might be coming.  One feature was color-coded labels which just launched this week, another was multiple IM support which launched yesterday, and a third was the ability to remove emails from a threaded conversation. Given that Google launched two of those three features this week, I’m thinking there’s a chance we’ll see that third feature by the end of the week. Another thing to keep in mind is that the Gmail team has mentioned that they’re working on some kind of “folder-y-ish” system to work with labels. I’m thinking it might work like that Folders4Gmail Greasemonkey script which would be awesome.

Again, the option to chat with AIM buddies in Gmail Chat is another nice addition. If only they offered the same features for Google Talk, I’d be a happy camper.

Thanks for the tip Cory!

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Not to be outdone by its Samsung successor, the Nexus One’s getting a miniature over-the-air update as well, sending users on a mind-bending ride from Android 2.2.1 (version FRG83D) to the FRG83G build of Android 2.2.2. When they emerge thoroughly dazzled and confused on the other side, what will they find? We spoke to Google and it’s just a few bug fixes, but one of them’s rather important — this update will go down in the annals of history as the one that doesn’t inadvertently send humorous texts intended for your co-workers to your deathly serious boss. Oh, and if that sounds like something you’d like to have immediately, rather than waiting for a formal rollout, you can find the file you need at Google’s servers right now.

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