Still haven’t full committed to buying an Asus Transformer Prime? Will a $399 price point help? That’s exactly what HHGregg is selling it at right now. We have no idea why they decided to slash the price by $100, but we will most definitely not be complaining.

Buy.

Cheers Mike!

And we are off to the airport, officially closing out our time at CES 2012. While we will have a recap of sorts later on, I did want to say that I’m coming away a little disappointed. This wasn’t even close to the CES of 2011 where we saw the introduction dual-core processors, the first wave of tablets, 4G LTE and more. It sort of felt like an in between year for mobile technology, at least at this event. From what we heard throughout the week, MWC in February could be massive.

We still want to ask though, if you came away impressed by anything? Was their a best moment of CES for you? Are Verizon’s new LTE phones top tier or so-so? Are their too many tablets on the market now, or not enough? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

In our last booth tour of the week, we hung out with the folks from Toshiba to see what they have in store for 2012. There were 4 tablets on display, some that will come to the U.S., others that will stay over in Japan. The most eye-popping was clearly the 13.3″ behemoth that you are seeing above. It current remains nameless and has a mystery list of specs, but our mind is already running through ways to put such a massive portable tablet in action. Assuming of course that it is portable at that size. It had all of the standard ports such as micro-HDMI and USB. There were dual cameras and a similar back material to what you will find on the Excite X10.

To see more of the beast, along with the rest of their 2012 works, jump past the break.  

The Intel booth marked one of our last stops here at CES 2012, and what better way to start wrapping things up than by looking at one of the future chipsets you will see in Android phones this year. It’s called Intel’s “Medfield” processor and is a single-core chip clocked at 1.6GHz. Don’t let the single-core part throw you though, so far from some of the benchmarks we have seen around the interwebs, this thing looks powerful enough.

For demo and display purposes, they slapped it into a Lenovo casing that may or may not ever see the light of day here in the States. The device itself ran Android 2.3 and had an 8MP camera that Intel’s chip was able to use to shoot up to 15 pictures within a single second. It also ran some of the more processor intensive games on the market without a hiccup.

We listened and watched a live demo of the device for a few minutes, but then quickly grabbed it to see how it performed. What did we think? Tough to have any strong opinions on it since this was really just a dev device, but the design that Lenovo went with was decent. The fact that the camera can take burst shots in a single second is a bonus, along with the fact that this processor is supposed to use far less energy than some of its competitors.

Pics after the break, including details on Medfield.  

Check “user guide” off the list of DROID 4 things that we need to see prior to launch. The phone is already official, plus we know that VZW is likely planning to launch it at $249, so we really are just waiting for a launch date at this point.

Be sure to check out our hands-on with the device here.

Links:  User Guide | Info Page

After reading our reports over the last couple of weeks which suggested that the Galaxy Nexus extended battery was half off, one of our readers called into Verizon to see what the deal was since they were so hard to find online and in stores. The rep informed him that in fact, all extended batteries for 4G LTE smartphones were 50%, not just for the Nexus. After taking quick lap around their online store, he is right. The Bionic, Stratosphere, and even Thunderbolt are all having battery sales. I looked for the Rezound, but it appears to be sold out.

Buy.

Cheers Chris!

Verizon announced all kinds of new 4G LTE devices at CES this week, but one thing that remained absent from almost all of those announcements were release dates. Scratch the purple DROID RAZR off of that list, as we have just learned that Big Red has targeted January 23 for the “all channel” launch. The only question now is,will we see the RAZR MAXX and DROID 4 on that date as well? The black and white versions of the RAZR at just 16GB are also hitting shelves on the 23.

We have some glamour shots of the purple RAZR here.

Cheers ___!