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LG and Sprint are continuing their partnership with the release of the successor to the stylish Lotus phone. The LG Lotus Elite has all the looks of the original Lotus, but has stepped it up a notch with a few exclusive features.

Boost Mobile announced that its Monthly Unlimited plan will be available on Sprint (NYSE: S) starting from January 13th. In addition, the carrier announced three new devices Kyocera (NYSE: KYO)’s Sanyo (OTCPK: SANYY) Mirro SCP3810 (.99), Sanyo Incognito SCP6760 (9.99) and BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Curve 8330 (9.99), which is available on a new BlackBerry Monthly Unlimited plan.

In case you: a) had it enough with standard boring earphones; b) live in Japan – you may want to grab some avantgarde earphones. How about something really non-traditional, made by a company called Solid Alliance? Unsurprisingly these are called Crazy Earphones, and from where I stand, they make a perfect holiday gift. After all, you don’t see that many people walking around with katana, arrow, mushroom, or ear earbuds, right?

RIM continues to refresh its BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) lineup with optical trackpads to replace the trackball “pearl” that has become almost synonymous with the BlackBerry brand. The latest BlackBerry to get the optical trackpad treatment is the BlackBerry Tour2 9650 (codename: Essex), and it’s looking good. Thanks to pics posted by BGR, we can see that the Tour2 looks almost exactly like its BlackBerry Tour predecessor, save for the optical trackpad that replaces the trackball.

Ever wanted to go to school and learn about BlackBerrys all day long? Well, two bits of news for you: one, you’re crazy. Two, RIM is officially offering curriculum to academic institutions under app development, support, and administration branches. This can help you provide students the knowledge they need to achieve those dreams of making the killer app, ruling a BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) rollout with an iron fist, or manning a soul-draining tech support cubicle. Instructors can use the textbooks, labs, and materials to teach the courses in whole semesters, or piecemeal as modules in other courses.

By Tim Conneally, Betanews

Without any notice to current customers with or those early adopters with dormant accounts, Sprint has locked down the Baltimore Xohm WiMAX network and is not letting inactive hardware be turned back on to allow free upgrades to Clear hardware.

Sprint’s Xohm network was one of the first two WiMAX deployments in the United States. We watched with excitement as the towers were raised in Baltimore and the ceremonial ribbon was cut on the new high speed wireless network.

Well folks the Pixi promo clips are ready. We have two videos to show you. The first one is from Palm (NSDQ: PALM), whereas the second (dull) one comes from Sprint (NYSE: S). Nothing too spectacular – but good enough for bargain-hunting webOS fans. Enjoy!

P.S. The second clip follows after the jump.

[Via: gadgetsonthego]

Related News from IntoMobile:

• Video: Yet Another Palm Pixi First Look
• GSM Palm Pixi Caught on Camera

When it comes to offering cut-throat pricing that usually undercuts many carriers’ own subsidized handset prices, Amazon isn’t the only game in town. Dell pops up from time to time with amazing deals of their own. Deals like this Dell offer for an unlocked Nokia (NYSE: NOK) E63 for 0, after 0 instant discount.

We had learned recently that T-Mobile (NYSE: DT)’s Project Dark would involve hardware financing that would allow customers to pay off devices on a monthly basis rather than entirely up-front, but there was another piece to the puzzle that was still missing: what about that “most affordable unlimited rated plan“? Well, some internal documents are revealing an unlimited text, talk and data plan for .99/month, matching Sprint (NYSE: S)’s equivalent Simply Everything plan (although there’s also a .99 plan, but I think that’s for their month-by-month non-annual plan). There’s plenty of fine print and option for family plans, but take a look at these docs to see if there’s anything for you.