Announced earlier this month during this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the BLU Vivo XL is now available for purchase in the US. “Celebrating the availability” of the device, BLU is offering an immediate $50 rebate to those purchasing the handset.

This means that the Vivo XL will set you back $99, down from its regular price of $149. The phone is available exclusively at Best Buy (online as well as physical stores), which has both gold and blue variants in stock.

The offer is only available for the first 3 days of the device’s availability, meaning it ends Sunday, January 31.

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Google has pushed out a new update to its Calendar app. The update brings along a new ‘smart suggestions’ feature that the company claims lets you quickly create events.

“When you begin typing an event title, you’ll see matching suggestions―choose one or keep typing,” Google explained in a blog post. Tapping “at…” lets you add a location to your event and later get directions.

Similarly, tapping “with…” allows you to add people to your event – you can call or message them from the event, but can’t send them an invite. Finally, tapping “on.” lets you specify the date, time and duration of the event.

The update – which also brings support for 30 new languages – is available on both Android and…

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If you are on Sprint and own an HTC One M8 or its special Harman Kardon edition, here is some good news: the carrier has announced the roll-out of Android 6.0 Marshmallow for the handset, and it should begin anytime now.

Sprint HTC One M8 / M8 HK Owners! Great news, we have received technical approval on the Marshmallow OS update! OTA will start tonight! Thx!— Mo Versi (@moversi) January 29, 2016

As usual, the announcement was made by HTC’s VP of Product Management Mo Versi on Twitter. He said that they have received technical approval for the update and the OTA roll-out will begin tonight (US time).

This comes around a couple of months after the Taiwanese company started rolling out the Android 6.0 update to unlocked M8 units in the US. At that time, it was said that the carrier versions will get the update “as soon as possible.”

If you aren’t already aware, Sprint’s HTC One A9 has just started receiving the Android 6.0.1…

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