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If you like your Bluetooth speakers nearly pocketable and can live without wall-shaking volume, the Jambox’s diminutive offspring is now available for $180 at Jawbone.com. The aptly named Mini is available in nine colors and five textures and debuts alongside iOS and Android streaming apps that are compatible with iTunes, Spotify and Rdio. The speakers will be available at US retailers “shortly,” according to the company. Hit the source below to get your Mini jams on.

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Source: Jawbone

Live outside of the Sates and eagerly awaiting a LTE-enabled Nexus 7? Well, Google has just obliged by making the 7-inch slate available in a handful of locales through its Play Store. The 4G tablet is now for sale to willing customers in Australia, Canada, Germany, Spain, France, UK, Japan and Korea. In the US, a lone 32GB option that’s compatible with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon networks is available for $349. Those itching to part with their funds can do so via the source link below.

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Source: Google Play

Ready to make a date with a next-gen console? Microsoft’s Xbox One goes up for sale on November 22nd, Redmond officially announced this morning. By way of a reminder, the PlayStation 4 will also land in the same month: November 15th for US customers — just in case you can afford to two-time it. If not, well, we all get to witness the assuredly bloody fight for our hard-earned cash come this holiday.

The Xbox One launches in 13 territories initially (UK, Ireland, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, US, CAN, MEX, BRA, AUS, NZ) and costs $499 /€499 / £449 — Microsoft’s calling it a “global” launch, though the list was cut down considerably from initial plans. “Many more markets” will see the console arrive in 2014, a note from Microsoft spokesperson Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb says. The aforementioned territories list notably excludes Japan, a territory traditionally important in the video game market. The console is also in “full production” in its charge toward homes everywhere, and Microsoft made one last internal tweak before sending it out: a 10 percent clock speed increase (from 1.6GHZ to 1.75GHZ). “It means that the processing power to make those games that we’ve been showing off at Gamescom that already look great will look even better,” corporate marketing VP Yusuf Mehdi said in a video announcing today’s news (find it just below the break).

When Xbox One arrives at retail this November, the $500 package includes the console itself, a new wireless gamepad, the new Kinect, a headset, and various cables for attaching it to your favorite television. Limited editions of a special “Day One” version of the console are also available, which include an insignia on the controller and an exclusive Achievement. Microsoft is apparently making an extra set available starting today, should you still be on the hunt.

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Source: Major Nelson, Microsoft

It looks like the Xbox One won’t be as widely available at launch as originally planned. Citing a need to meet demand, Microsoft said today that its new console will be available in 13 countries at launch, instead of the 21 initially promised. Instead, the remaining eight markets will get it sometime in 2014. All told, those 13 lucky countries include: Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and New Zealand. The other eight — Belgium, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden and Switzerland — will still sell it eventually, but for now Microsoft isn’t committing to a firm launch date. For now, all we know is that it’s promised to arrive “as soon as possible next year.” As a “show of appreciation for your patience,” to use Microsoft’s words, people who placed pre-orders in those eight cut-off countries will receive a free game. Feeling consoled, guys?

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Source: Microsoft

Those who observed yesterday’s Nexus 7 shenanigans from across the Atlantic may well be wondering when it’d all become relevant to them, and it seems we have the first hint of an answer. Currys and PC World now have active pre-order pages for the Google tablet, with the 16GB version priced at £199.99 and the 32GB variant at £239.99, and with an availability date of September 13th. It’s possible that this time window could change, of course, but it still sounds like quite a wait.

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Via: Android Central

Source: Currys, PC World