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A bunch of celebrities and ex-pro athletes played flag football on one million pounds of freshly poured sand in Indianapolis today

The event — Directv’s Celebrity Beach Bowl — is a good example of how entertainment and sports collide at Super Bowl weekend.

The thing even had its own “gifting suite” where celebrities get hooked up with some swag in exchange for publicity.

Big names like Snoop Dogg, Erin Andrews, and Kate Upton were all able to take advantage if they wanted to.

Motoactv, a $300 music player/sports training gadget

Here’s an assortment of the things in the suite, it includes a T-Mobile LANDLINE!

An $80 My Pillow pillow

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A bunch of information about the upcoming lineup of Windows Phones just leaked, and it looks like we’re going to a see several with 4G LTE data speeds within the first half of 2012.

The phones, which we’re expecting to be announced at CES, come from Nokia, Samsung, and HTC.

First up is the Nokia Ace, which WinSuperSite says will be an LTE phone launching on AT&T March 18. Nokia’s Lumia 710, which is already on T-Mobile, should arrive on Verizon in April.

Next comes HTC’s Radiant, which The Verge says will be an LTE phone, but doesn’t mention which carrier it will run on.

Finally, The Verge found out that Samsung’s “Mandel” Windows Phone will be a LTE device with a massive screen. It’ll launch in early 2012, around the same time as the Radiant.

We’ll have all the official details, release dates, and pricing as soon as the phone are announced at CES next month.

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This is one way to finally get people in Best Buy’s door.

The electronics retailer is having a sale for today only that gets you a free iPhone 4 when you buy a 32 GB model. (In stores only.)

Wow.

The sale ends at 5 p.m. local time, so hurry up!

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Google’s annual Zeitgeist is out for 2011, listing the top searches in a broad range of categories.

We decided to take a look at the most searched for gadgets of 2011 to see what people were actually interested in.

The following is a ranking of Google’s “Fastest Rising Gadgets” in the United States this year. That means they’re ranked based on how popular the searches were at a specific time. For example, searches for “iPhone 4S” didn’t begin until Apple announced the device in October. 

Keep reading to see Google’s top 10 and find out which gadget ranks number one.

#10 TI Nspire Cx

The Nspire Cx is Texas Instruments’ latest and greatest graphing calculator. This isn’t the same black and white model you used in high school. It’s super thin and features a backlit high-res display.

#9 Palm Pre 3

The ill-fated Palm Pre 3 never had a chance to make an official U.S. debut. HP made the bold decision to stop making hardware running WebOS just weeks before the Pre 3 was expected to go on sale.

#8 HTC Sensation

The HTC Sensation was one of the company’s first devices to run Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It runs on T-Mobile’s zippy 4G network, and has one of the most gorgeous displays on any phone this year.

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Last May, Google announced a deal with a bunch of cellphone makers and wireless carriers that was supposed to fix a big problem with Android.

Now, as PC Magazine’s Jamie Lendro reports, that alliance is basically dead.

Of the seven companies in it, only one, Sony Ericsson, has publicly promised to live up to the pledge to release new versions of Android to ALL phones that are less than 18 months old.

Motorola, Samsung, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon all danced around the question.

This is a problem for users — they’re not always getting the latest experience that Google has created, and they can’t always use the latest apps. It’s a huge problem for developers — if they target only the most recent software, they don’t know how many customers they’ll be able to reach, and on what timeline.

The thing is, this deal was never going to work. Google can’t force these companies to do anything that wasn’t in the terms of their contracts — and even then, Google only has leverage over partners who want official Google certification. Anybody can take the basic underlying version of Android and customize it to their own ends, like Amazon has done with the Kindle Fire and Facebook is reportedly doing with its phone.

Meanwhile, handset makers and carriers want to maintain differentiation– they release phones with different hardware specs, layer their own UIs on top, and so on. Updating all those phones requires a lot of extra work.

It’s like herding cats.

Fortunately for Google, if the feds and the EU approve the Motorola deal, Google will have a little more leverage — it can build its own phones to its own desired hardware specs and tell software developers to target those specs. If other handset makers and wireless carriers refuse to come along, that’s their loss.

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