Good news smartphone shoppers, if you have been eyeing Verizon’s Motorola DROID Bionic, you’re in luck as the carrier has recently dropped the price of the handset down to $99 on a two-year contract. The phone is still under a year old with decent specs and 4G LTE connectivity to boot, seems like a pretty good deal if you ask me. This price cut seems to have followed the same practice that Verizon employed when it slashed the price of the Droid RAZR, which is where the carrier started offering their devices at a lower price but will no longer come with a microSD card. If storage really isn’t that big of an issue for you, maybe you have a PMP dedicated for your music, and you mainly use your phone for calls, texts, emails and browsing, the 16GB internal storage should be enough for now. So who’s picking up the DROID Bionic now that it’s only $99?

Galaxy Nexus owners, do you feel that despite your phone sporting a rather large display that it is not being fully utilized? Well if you do feel that way, you’re in luck as an XDA forum member, mrx8836350, has managed to develop a method that will get rid of the virtual navigation buttons on your device, thus allowing your apps, movies, videos, webpages, etc to take up the entire screen.

Unfortunately the method to achieve this effect requires the user to modify the phone’s Framework.res file, replacing it with the modified version. This really isn’t for the faint of heart nor is it for the first time modder to try out themselves. However the good news is that the developer has released flashable ZIP files for the stock GSM Galaxy Nexus, Android Open Kang Project and Apex ROMs. If you’d like to try it out for yourselves, head on over to the XDA forums for the download link and instructions, but keep in mind that you are proceeding at your own risk and we cannot be held liable should anything happen to your device!

If you are still holding on to your old HTC device, such as the HTC Legend, Hero, Droid Eris, MyTouch 3G and MyTouch 4G, well it looks like HTC has decided to add those devices to the list of phones whose bootloader can be unlocked via the HTC’s bootloader unlocking tool. Granted we have to wonder if there are still people out there holding on to these old devices, but if you still have them lying around and you were thinking of experimenting or getting started on developing for Android, well now you have access to a phone with an unlocked bootloader that you can mess around with. Either way kudos to HTC for not forgetting their customers from the past. If you’d like to unlock the above mentioned devices, head on over to the HTCDev website.

It was believed that the HTC Flyer had been discontinued and that if you wanted to get your hands on one, you might be out of luck. Well the good news is that one online retailer in the UK still has some remaining HTC Flyer stock left and is looking to sell them to you at a discounted price. If you are indeed shopping around for the HTC Flyer, retailer Expansys will be offering you the chance to pick one up for yourself at £234.99 for the 16GB Wi-Fi only version. More information can be found over at Expansys’ website where you can also place your order.

For those unfamiliar, Billabong is a sports brand known for surfing, skating, snowboarding, wakeboarding, etc, which is why we guess we can’t say that we’re too surprised to learn that Sony Ericsson has teamed up with Billabong for the Xperia active Billabong Edition, which apparently has been designed “with extreme sports enthusiasts in mind.”

Internally it will remain the same as the regular Xperia active edition, which means that users can still expect the same IP67 certification for dust and water resistance, as well as “finger wet tracking” technology on its 3” display. The device will also sport a 5MP rear-facing camera, DLNA support, FM radio with RDS, Timescape, Reality Display with BRAVIA Engine with Google’s Android on board. It will also feature exclusive Billabong content, such as wallpapers, mobile content and the Billabong Surf Trip game designed for the Xperia Play PlayStation phone.