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Oct

[Updated: Here Are The Winners!] Giant Giveaway #11: Two More 16GB White ASUS Eee Pad Sliders Are Up For Grabs - Win One For Doing Next To Nothing!

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in ASUS, Contests / Giveaways, Eee Pad Slider

Last Updated: November 23rd, 2011

After your (possibly over-) enthusiastic response (I kid, I kid; we appreciate your high spirits) to our last giveaway, we decided it would only be appropriate to allow two more readers the chance to win an ASUS Eee Pad Slider. That's right: NVIDIA, in its seemingly infinite awesomeness, has once again been generous enough to sponsor a giveaway of not one, but two 16GB white ASUS Eee Pad Sliders, both powered by a 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 processor and fueled by a wide variety of games from the Tegra Zone.

Tegra Zone

The Prize

The Slider, for those with less-than-ideal memories, is the keyboard-tablet hybrid we reviewed just a few weeks ago.

Oct

[Updated: Here Are The Winners!] Giant Giveaway #10: Win One Of Two 16GB White ASUS Eee Pad Sliders For Doing Next To Nothing

Posted by Jaroslav Stekl in ASUS, Contests / Giveaways, Eee Pad Slider

Last Updated: October 27th, 2011

Can you believe we and NVIDIA have already conducted this many giveaways? It seems like just yesterday we were giving away the Motorola XOOM, and...

Never mind; let's cut to the chase: this time around NVIDIA has been generous enough to sponsor a giveaway of not one, but two white 16GB ASUS Eee Pad Sliders powered by the Tegra 2 processor and fueled by a wide range of available games from the Tegra Zone.

Tegra Zone

The Slider, for those with less-than-ideal memories, is the keyboard-tablet hybrid we reviewed just a few weeks ago. It's not quite perfect - it is, after all, subject to Honeycomb's shortcomings - but it's still an excellent tablet, especially compared to its Android-based competition.

Oct

Amazon Wireless Announces Winning Videos For The 'Freedom To Choose' Contest

Posted by Cameron Summerson in News

Remember Amazon Wireless' Freedom to Choose video contest? Yeah, the one with $15k in prizes for making a simple video telling why AW is awesome. Artem and I helped judge the contest alongside folks from Android & Me and Phonedog -- all the videos have been weighed and measured, and the winning clips have now been chosen.

There were two different categories: Judges and Voting. Here are the winning videos for each category:

Judging

#1. Amazon Wireless Rap ($5000)

#2. Change for a Dime ($4000)

#3. Phone Rage ($2000)

#4. Tell Everyone! ($1000)

#5. Marionette Theatre ($800)

#6. The History of Buying a Cell Phone ($700)

Voting

#1.

Oct

[Updated: Winner Posted!] Giant Giveaway #9: Win A 32GB ASUS Eee Pad Transformer + Keyboard Dock, Tegra Phone, Logitech Gamepad, and $25 Giftcard

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Atrix 4G (Olympus), Contests / Giveaways, Droid X2, Eee Pad Transformer, G2x (p999), Photon 4G

Last Updated: November 4th, 2011

Yesterday, we took a look at Riptide GP for Tegra devices with the addition of controller support. To celebrate the update and all the fun that adding a controller to your Tegra tablet can bring, we've once again teamed up with NVIDIA to bring our most massive giveaway yet: The Riptide Gaming Power Pack.

Just take a look of all that is in store for the winner:

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer 32GB with keyboard dock.
YOUR CHOICE of Tegra powered superphone - Motorola Atrix (AT&T), Motorola Droid X2 (Verizon), LG G2x (T-Mobile), or Motorola Photon 4G (Sprint)
Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710
$25 AMEX Giftcard for TegraZone games, including Riptide GP

Is this the best giveaway we've done yet, or what?

Oct

[Monthly Home Screen Challenge, October 2011] Post Your Android Home Screen, Win An Android Police Shirt

Posted by Liam Spradlin in Development, Home Screen Challenge

Last Updated: January 3rd, 2012

Creating an aesthetically pleasing home screen for your phone or tablet has become an art in itself, and an entire ecosystem packed with widgets, themes, wallpapers, launchers, and custom ROMs has built up to support it. Sometimes, it can be tough to find a winning combination of elements to create a beautiful and enduring home screen that provides both form and function.

For this reason, we have decided to open up a call for gorgeous, well-decorated home screens of all shapes and sizes. Each month we will select the very best home screen configuration(s) and completely break it down into its component parts, providing you with all the necessary information to create your own awesome home screen.

Oct

The Winner Of The Creative Banner Design Contest And The Owner Of A Brand New Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Is...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, IdeaPad K1

Last Updated: November 23rd, 2011

As you guys should already know, from time to time we mix things up a bit and run creative giveaways that give the most talented of our readers a real chance to win something big. Remember the 404 page design (also see this), which happens to be my favorite contest so far?

The banner design contest was created to run in a similar vein, and now that we've finally had enough time to sort through all the submission (there were over 150 links to look through), we decided to award the prize, a brand new Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Tegra 2 tablet, generously provided by NVIDIA, to...

Sep

[One-Day Giveaway] Win One Of Three Otterbox Cases Of Your Choice

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Contests / Giveaways, News

Last Updated: October 2nd, 2011

Who likes free stuff? You? Great, because we have some to give away (don't we always?)! Up for grabs today are three cases, courtesy of the awesome guys over at Otterbox. We all know and love Otterbox cases for the rugged, durable protection they provide our devices, but here's a quick look at each series of case.

Impact Series

Durable, simple, and stylish, the Impact Series is made of a molded silicon designed to protect your device from scratches, drops, dings, and other minor injury. It probably won't help if you toss your phone out of a helicopter, but how often could that happen?

Sep

Apps World Is Happening On November 1-2 In New York City, And We Have A Free In For One Lucky Dev ($980)

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Contests / Giveaways, News

Last Updated: October 5th, 2011

It's no secret that we love developers here at AP -- they are what fuels the Android ecosystem, after all. To show our appreciation for the elite group that get to call themselves 'devs', we've already successfully sent five on their way to various conferences to help further their skills and networking. At the beginning of the month, we gave away ~~two~~ three tickets to the Android Open Conference in San Francisco, and, more recently, we sent a couple of lucky devs to AnDevCon II, also in SF.

For those on the East Coast, though, a trip across the country may not be in the budget right now.

Sep

[Updated: Here Are The Winners] AnDevCon II Is Happening November 6-9 In San Francisco, And We Have Free Entries For Two Lucky Developers ($1295 Each)

Posted by Cameron Summerson in Contests / Giveaways, Development

Last Updated: September 26th, 2011

Last week, we hooked ~~two~~ three Android developers up with free tickets to the Android Open Conference on October 9-11, and now we have two tickets for the upcoming AnDevCon (Android Developer Conference), happening November 6-9 in San Francisco to give away. These three-day passes are normally $1295 each and will get you the whole kit-and-caboodle, with the exception of the pre-conference workshops.

Just like the previous giveaway, this is for tickets only. You are responsible to your own travel expenses, lodging, food, and any other associated fees.

Before we get into how you can win, let's get to know what AnDevCon is all about, shall we?

Sep

[Updated: Here Are The Winners] Book Giveaway #9: Five Readers Will Learn To Create Apps With The Android SDK Using The Android Developer's Cookbook

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Contests / Giveaways, Development

Last Updated: September 25th, 2011

Once again, we're teaming up with informIT to give away yet another book. This time around, it's perhaps what you'd call a higher-level book that might be especially useful to those familiar with developing, though it's still accessible to those just starting out. The book: Android Developer's Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK.

The Book

Written by James Steele and Nelson To and published in October, 2010, the book spans a whopping 400 pages. It's available in both eBook and print for $25.59 (or $24.34 on Amazon) and $31.99, respectively - or $43.19 for both.