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Amazon's Kindle Fire is a Catch-22 for retailers: The $199 tablet computer could both help Christmas traffic and hurt future sales.

With an iPhone event scheduled for Tuesday at Apple‘s Cupertino, California campus looming, spy shots that appear to be snapped inside a Brazilian factory and an update to Apple’s iTunes software seemed to confirm an Apple update to the slablike iPhone 4. Less certain: a thin, wide-bodied handset with a teardrop shape. Case designs for a teardrop-shaped handset have already begun appearing on blogs, and, briefly, on the web-site of handset case supplier Casemate.

Best Buy will chop the price of HTC's Flyer to $299 from $499 October 1, CrunchGear reported Friday. The move comes after many retailers chopped the price for RIM's PlayBook and Motorola's Xoom to just $299. And, of course, HP has outdone them all, slashing the price of its TouchPad to just $99 on its way ...

Asus' Eee Slider is no ordinary Honeycomb tablet. In fact, it's one of the only ones on the market with a slide-out keyboard built right into the frame.

If you're looking to unload your current iPhone or other smartphone, now's the time. Beating the potentially millions of folks who will be buying a new iPhone and selling their old one could put more money in your pocket.

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The iPod classic, a venerable stalwart in the world of consumer technology, may be getting the axe along with its cousin, the iPod shuffle, according to a blog that focuses on Apple news.

After months of speculation, it's here: Amazon's tablet, the $199 Kindle Fire, was unveiled Wednesday. Smaller and cheaper than Apple's dominant iPad, the Kindle Fire has a 7-inch display and runs on a heavily customized version of Google's (GOOG, Fortune 500) Android operating system. The tablet offers Wi-Fi connectivity, but no 3G or other cellular connection. It also lacks a camera and microphone, two features found in most rival tablets.

Apple has confirmed that it is holding an iPhone event next Tuesday, sending invitations to members of the tech press. The invites read, “Let’s Talk iPhone.” The event will start at 10 a.m. Pacific time and will take place at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif.

Amazon’s souped-up color version of its Kindle e-reader hopes to undercut the iPad in price and steal away a couple of million in unit sales by Christmas.