Contest: Caption these Androids and win a 16GB Micro SD card from Mushkin

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Who doesn’t want some more storage space in their Android device? More room for pics, movies, music… it all sounds wonderful. But who’s got the extra money to spend? That’s where we come in. We want, nay – need to give away a 16 GB class 4 micro SD card from Mushkin to someone. The tension is killing us! How do you enter? Simple – Head over to our contest thread in the forums, make sure you have a user account, and give us the most hilarious caption you can think of for the picture above.

Remember to keep it clean, but keep it awesome! We’ll PM the winner Sunday night to let everyone know who won! You can always enter more than once, so come up with as much hilariousness as you can!

Viber’s VoIP App Now Available For Android, Free Download In The Market

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The popular VoIP application that swept iPhone users off of their feet has now landed on the Android operating system.  Now, you can call friends and family for the low low cost of nothing over a 3G or WiFi network.  In addition, the application sports built-in SMS capabilities with a pop-up feature for text notifications.  You’ll also receive an in-app call log and a cool slick UI of a default dialer.  The service is quickly gaining popularity as it’s currently touting a 12 million user base since its start seven months ago.  Hit the break for the full press release and definitely don’t forget to check out the video demo of the app in action.   » Read the rest

Quick Look at Today’s Free Amazon App: SuperBox

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Check out SuperBox in the Amazon App Store today. Right now for the next 14 hours give or take, you can download this feature packed application for free, discounted from its original price of $3.99.

The functions are broken down in to categories as follows:

  • Information: Memory/Cpu, Battery
  • Apps: Installer, Uninstaller, App2sd, Cache
  • Battery Saver: TaskKiller, Settings
  • Others: FileManager, SafeGuard

You currently may have a number of individual apps that do just about everything this suite of apps will do. The nice thing is that it’s all condensed into one application. Whether or not you feel this can replace your favorite system tweaking apps is up to you. Why not give it a try, and see what you think and how it compares to your current set up. Superbox may just convince you to lose the 5-6-7 other apps you’ve been using.

Google maps with Navigation going offline mode in summer?

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What would make a company like TomTom or Garmin shake a little when it comes to competition? How about Google Maps with Navigation offering a downloadable offline mode application? That’s the word on the street according to AllAboutPhones who reports that Google is launching just that this summer.

The application would not require any users to connect using data when out of service areas, but still provides full map functionality with navigation. This would likely be a map package that the user would need to download in advance and store on the mobile device for access when out of data range. One thing we don’t know however is whether Google will charge for this service, or perhaps charge for the downloadable maps individually, etc. Either way, if Google launches this and only charges anything under $50, it’s still going to be a huge kick in the rear for competing GPS navigational tools currently available.

Let us know how you think this will play out, will Google charge?

[via androidandme, allaboutphones]

Want To Win 1 of 10 Evo 3D’s From Sprint? Enter The “Be a 3D Star Sweepstakes”

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Sprint is offering some 3D goodies for those of you who have them as a carrier.  They’ve just announced that they will be giving away 32 HTC Evo 3D devices beginning June 13th.  All you have to do is enter their “Be a 3D Star” Sweepstakes and you’re one step closer from owning the 3D monster device of 2011.  It appears though, that only Sprint Premier customers are eligible to win 1 of 10 devices along with ”a bag of sweet EVO swag”.  It looks like Sprint is giving away 10 devices now up until June 12th for premier customers and possibly the remaining 22 devices to the rest of their customer base on June 13th.  We’re not 100% on that but we’ll definitely find out for you.

On June 13th, entry into the sweepstakes is available for all and if chosen, your shot could end up on a few scenes in the movie dubbed “Present Tense”.  So send in some good shots!  You’re allowed to enter one entry per phone number each day.  Check out the teaser below after the break as well as the sign up link and don’t forget to let us know what you think in the comments.   » Read the rest

Quick Look at Today’s Free Amazon App: Office Jerk

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You know that goody-goody at your office? Yeah, that guy. Employee of the Century, always kisses up to the boss, thinks he’s just a LITTLE BIT BETTER than everyone else? You know the guy. Don’t you ever just wanna chunk a stapler right at the back of his head? Well, I don’t recommend it, but that’s exactly the point of today’s free app from the Amazon Appstore: Office Jerk.
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Amazon slashes prices in half on previous Free Apps of the day

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We do our part to keep our readers informed about the latest Amazon Free App of the Day. So we felt it was only right to let you know that Amazon has contacted their customers via email stating that they are offering previous ‘Free App of the Day’ apps for 50% off the regular price. Sure, that’s nothing compared to the  promotional price of free, but it’s still hard to say no to a discount. I know, occasionally I’ll overlook downloading the ‘free app of the day’. So it’ll be nice to have the opportunity to get the app for half the price.

The Amazon link provided in the email takes you to the following apps now 50% off:

  • PicSay Pro
  • Enjoy Sudoku
  • Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim
  • Soundhoud Infinity
  • Flight Control
  • Pool Break Pro
  • Fancy Widget Pro
  • Solitaire MegaPack

Dont forget todays free Amazon app: Plants vs. Zombies

Swiftkey X beta available for download – it’s Personal!

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Swiftkey is already hugely popular on Android devices, with many users paying the $2 just to get the full version, because it’s just that good! Now, Swiftkey has been listening and watching user feedback for some time, and based on those comments and ideas, they have released Swiftkey X beta for Free in the Android Market.

The new version in TouchType’s Swiftkey  offers some UI improvements, cloud personalization where you can tell the app to learn your speech from your facebook, twitter and gmail accounts, as well as texts. You can tell the app what style of typist you are as well so it can customize the predictability features as you type to suit your style from the heat signature left behind on your touchscreen as you type. This allows the app to tell if you type sloppy or precise.

Read more below, video below.

Jamendo Player For Android, Available For Download In The Market (Video)

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Jamendo Player is one of the latest players to hit the market and offers a few nice extras as well.  The app is dubbed the largest Creative Commons-licensed music catalog around and offers content discovery from works of independent artists all over the world.  Search for any and all content related to your favorite artist and create a playlists for continuous playback as well.  The player has a nice, clean and crisp UI offering you an extreme interactive experience.  Best thing about the app is, it’s all free, legal & unlimited!, says Jamendo.com.  Hit the break to check out some screen shots and a video of the app in action.  The video is of version 1.0 but you can get a basic feel for the UI and how interactive the application really is just as well.   » Read the rest

Andro+ Call Backgrounder lets you ignore calls and continue what you were doing

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Ever had a time when you were just about to knock down that final level on Angry Birds you’ve been struggling to grab 3 stars on, only to have a big display pop up that someone is trying to call you? All you want to do is get back to that game, cause you’re on a hot streak… Well, Andro+ Call Backgrounder may be just the app you need to quickly get back to the game without having to deny the incoming call, thus allowing it to keep ringing in the background so it goes away, or to voicemail at least.

Here’s a quote from the developer;

Andro+ Call Backgrounder provides you an important feature that Android System lacks!
CallBackgrounder lets you put in background an incoming call simply by pressing a button!
How many times you were watching a video, playing a game or reading email/website and an Incoming call disturbed your activity?
With CallBackgrounder you can return to the last app you were using by putting incoming call in background!
The caller will never notice about your action, the incoming call will continue in background and you will be free to carry on whatever you were doing and maybe later answer/reject.
You can find filters based on contacts and apps that let you ACTIVATE CallBackgrounder ONLY for some contacts or running apps.

If you want to give it a try, head to this link to download. You’re friends may thank you for not totally ignoring them.

[via xda developers]