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Lookie here. Intel may have been the jilted bride left at the altar by Nokia, but it’s not giving up on MeeGo just yet. The above poster has been hung up here in Barcelona, in the area us humble journalists still aren’t in allowed yet, and shows a smartphone and tablet running Intel’s Linux variant as their OS. There are plenty of details to pore over, such as the multiplicity of home screen items on the tablet that includes Big Buck Bunny — a favorite for testing HD video playback — in its top right corner; the handset, meanwhile, could very well be that Aava Mobile device we’ve been hearing about lately. MWC is opening its doors tomorrow, so even if Intel doesn’t announce these devices in full, we’ll snoop its booth out and find out for ourselves.

Intel promises, teases MeeGo smartphone and tablet for MWC originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Huawei, the company whose name rhymes with the typical response of “who are they,” has uploaded a few images to its Flickr page teasing new hardware bound for this year’s Mobile World Congress. First up is the IDEOS X3, an Android handset seemingly set to provide a more budget-oriented family mate to the X5. It has two cameras, one on the front and one on the back, three Android buttons, and at least four different color options (red, blue, silver and black). The Barcelona event will see it joined by an IDEOS S7 Slim tablet, also running Google’s mobile OS, though our knowledge about that device doesn’t extend any further than noting it too has a front-facing camera. Check it out after the break.

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Huawei IDEOS X3 and IDEOS S7 Slim tablet revealed en route to MWC launch originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 08 Feb 2011 08:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We heard about this during the news avalanche that was CES early last month, but today Best Buy has started making its new Buy Back Program official in emails sent out to valued Reward Zone customers. The gist of the scheme is that Best Buy will offer you set “Buy Back” prices for goods you purchase from its stores, advertising it as a reassurance that your electronics won’t depreciate too much during your ownership. The leaked info we saw in January showed that you’ll have to pay an extra fee at the point of purchase to enroll into the Program and Best Buy’s highest re-purchase offers were capped at 50 percent of the initial price, so don’t expect this to be any great favor to you, Mr. Consumer. For more info, keep your eyes locked on the Super Bowl this Sunday, when Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne (no, seriously) will do their best to explicate Best Buy’s new venture.

[Thanks, Jeff and John]

Best Buy’s Buy Back Program to be made official during the Super Bowl… by Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re not sure what’s going on with the new teaser video released by LG. It looks like the handset that Phandroid pegged as the Optimus 3D a few days ago and has since become the poster-boy for the device that will officially include a glasses-free 3D LCD and “dual-lens camera for 3D recording.” While we can see the front-facing cam, try as we might we just can’t see that pair of lenses on the back of the handset teased in the video. In fact, we don’t see any camera at all leading us to believe that LG might be manipulating the image for a big reveal in a few weeks. The video does drop some spec hints with phrases like “something bigger” and “dual core — multi channel” which would seem to indicate a 4.x-inch display (presumably the 4.3-inch 3D display we spotted at CES), dual-core SoC (like LG’s Optimus 2x), and multi-channel RAM as originally rumored by Phandroid. Guess we’ll have to wait for Mobile World Congress to know for sure. Get your monster truck on with the teaser video embedded after the break.

Update: We’ve been told that the phone is definitely a manipulated Optimus 3D.

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LG teases Optimus 3D, only without the 3D (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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“To our millions of customers, who never stopped believing this day would come…” Alright, we guess they earned just this one moment of visual hyperbole.

Verizon’s ‘It Begins’ ad plays up the iPhone wait for all it’s worth (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:34:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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