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After months of waiting, HP has finally made their tablet official. Dubbed the Slate 500, this tablet features an 8.9-inch capacitive touchscreen display, an Intel Atom 1.86GHz Z540 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 64GB SSD, Broadcom's Crystal HD, a rear-facing 3MP camera, a front-facing webcam, and Windows 7 Professional. This tablet comes with a Wacom active digitizer, so you'll be able to use that if you don't want to use your fingers. In case you thought the Galaxy Tab from Samsung was expensive, HP's Slate will cost you $800.

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After months of delays Rogers has officially announced that they'll be launching the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate on October 25th. Apparently, the delay was because of a shortage of Super AMOLED displays and "limited inventory." Either way, it's good to see that the wait will really will over in four days. Rogers has delayed this smartphone countless times at this point, but hopefully the 25th will really be the day. It'll be available for $149.99 on a 2-year contract and $549.99 contract-free.

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Coming from Droid Sans could be a couple of pretty important leaked pictures. All of them are about Acer's upcoming devices and they're all going to be running on the Android OS. The first picture above appears to be a picture of Acer's Froyo based Liquid Metal smartphone but no specs are unknown. The picture directly below is said to be a tablet from Acer with a 9 or 10-inch display. The most interesting part is the couple of pictures below the tablet which is another smartphone [from Acer] running Android. This one appears to have a large and thin display (resolution unknown), a front-facing camera, four low touch-sensitive buttons, and a Dolby Sound mark on the back. Interesting indeed.

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Coming from the new and improved Phone Arena website is word on two devices headed to Verizon in a week. The first one is above and it's the Pantech Crux. This one features a 3-inch touchscreen display with a 240 x 400 resolution, a 3MP camera, social integration, VZ Navigator, and GPS. The other handset is below and it's the LG Octane (VN530). This one features an external LCD display with a 176 x 220 resolution, an internal display with a 240x 320 resolution, a flip-out keyboard, a 3MP camera, and a non-standard 2.5mm headphone jack.

Both of these handsets will be available on October 28th and they're both fairly low-end handsets. It'll be good for someone starting out though.

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T-Mobile USA has just announced something great for its customers. Last night, they tweeted that the HTC HD7 would be available, through them, starting on November 8th for $199.99 on a 2-year contract! That's only a few weeks away and could be worth the wait if you want it. The HD7 features a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, 16GB of internal storage, a 5MP AF camera with a flash, WiFi / Bluetooth support, GPS, a 1GHz Snapdragon CPU, and Windows Phone 7.

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Dell has just announced a refresh in their XPS notebook line-up. These new notebooks are available in 14, 15.6, and 17-inch models and they're all sporting some pretty multimedia-focused specs. They feature Intel Core i5 / i7 CPU options, Nvidia GeForce 400M GPU, Optimus technology, an HD webcam, and JBL speakers. The entry level models will cost you $899, $849, and $949, respectively, and they're sporting an Intel Core i5-460M CPU, Nvidia 420M graphics, a 500GB HDD, 4GB of RAM, and Intel's WiDi technology which seems like a pretty good deal actually. Of course, they're highly customizable so you should be able to pack everything you really want inside (Blu-ray).

[Engadget]