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Yes Virginia, there really is a Google Phone! And no, I don’t mean all those Android-powered devices, but instead a Google-branded phone that is made by an original equipment maker. The company has started giving away these devices to its employees, who started tweeting about it last night, and the company had to make an announcement this morning. In a blog post on the Android Blog, Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management writes:

We recently came up with the concept of ..read more

While many tech geeks who fancy Verizon will be spending the majority of this week debating whether or not to pull the trigger on either the DROID or DROID Eris, today Verizon quietly started selling the LG Chocolate Touch, a non-smartphone with mass market appeal. Equipped with a 3″ touchscreen display and 3.2 megapixel camera, the Chocolate Touch also features support for VZ Navigator, V CAST Music/Video, Visual Voicemail and EV-DO Rev. 0 connectivity. Also of note is a convenience ..read more

Lifehacker readers offer tips for automating receipt tracking, frozen food shopping, and we learn a quick trick for stopping our MP3 players from syncing when we plug them in.

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About the Tips Box: Every day we receive boatloads of great reader tips in our inbox (tips at lifehacker.com), but for various reasons—maybe they’re a bit too niche, maybe we couldn’t find a good way to present it, or maybe ..read more

The introduction of e-book readers to challenge Amazon’s Kindle has brought new price competition to the market. The launch of Sony’s $199 Reader and Interead’s $249 Cool-er prompted Amazon to drop the price of its introductory-level Kindle 2 to $299 from $359 within months of its debut. But prices still have a long way to go before e-book readers get beyond the early adopter demographic, according to a study released this week by Forrester Research.

Even among frequent readers with a ..read more

Today’s news that Apple  sells almost 70 percent of songs online had us wondering about other industry giants. Some companies, whether because they make a great product, or were first to a particular industry, or some other reason entirely, make goods that manage to secure a massive amount of market share. Hit products that grab more than half of their market are very rare, and only occasionally can they hold onto that share over a long period of time. Whether ..read more

Alot of techies recently have been talking about wireless charging but nothing as of yet has seemed to live up to the hype. The powermat however seems to be breaking that mould. Coming this October this nifty gadget will charge all your gadgets from MP3 players to mobile phones. All you do is place your gadget onto the mat and as if by magic, they charge up.

Up to 4 gadgets can be charged at one time. No need to change ..read more