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Sep

[Updated: Here Are The Winners!] Giant Giveaway #8: Photon Week - Win One Of Three Motorola Photon 4Gs For Doing Almost Nothing

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Contests / Giveaways, Motorola, Photon 4G

The Android Police giveaway fever continues, but this time we've stepped things up with a triple header. Once again, we've teamed up with NVIDIA to give away three Motorola Photon 4Gs. Why? Because NVIDIA and Tegra Zone are awesome.

The Prizes

As I myself have discovered in the past few weeks, the Photon is a great phone that packs some serious power under the hood:

Android 2.3.4 (Gingerbread) + NinjaBlur UI
1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 (dual core) CPU
1 GB DDR2 RAM
4.3" qHD (960 x 540) display
CDMA and GSM bands
4G (WiMax)
8MP camera with dual LED flash, 720p video capture in the rear, VGA front-facing camera
16GB memory + microSD slot
HDMI Mirroring
Kickstand
802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi

Before we move on to the giveaway, I wanted to mention our awesome sponsor, NVIDIA, once again.

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.

Want to get started building applications for Android, the world’s hottest, fast-growing mobile platform?

Sep

And The Winner Of The Droid Bionic In The Giant Special Edition Giveaway #7 Is...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Bionic, Contests / Giveaways

Last Updated: September 21st, 2011

With over 3800 entries from Facebook, Google+, and Twitter (in order of popularity), it's now time to conclude the 7th "special edition" giveaway and announce the winner of the brand new Droid Bionic, the lapdock, the HD docking station, and the Webtop adapter.

Before I move on to the winner, selected at random, I'd like to thank Android Stack Exchange for providing the prizes and an excellent platform for asking and getting quick answers to all your Android questions.

And now - the winner!

Unfortunately, since there is only 1 grand prize and over 3800 entries, the chance of winning one is...

Sep

And The Five Winners Of The Android Police Book Giveaway #8 Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways

The 8th Android Police book giveaway is now over, and we've picked the winners. A copy of Teach Yourself Android Application Development In 24 Hours (2nd ed.) will be shipped to each of the following readers, as selected by informIT:

magiman7
James Rooney
Matt
Josh
Stefany

Congratulations, guys - all of you will be contacted by informIT for your information and shipped a brand new copy of Teach Yourself Android Application Development In 24 Hours (2nd ed.).

Everyone else - keep participating to win more great Android development books!

Sep

And The Two... No, Let's Make It Three Winners Of O'Reilly's Android Open Conference Tickets Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways

O'Reilly's Android Open conference, which is happening October 9-11, is our first real media sponsorship of an Android event (yay!), and as media partners, we were given 2 free tickets to the event, along with an exclusive 20% off code: AN11AP.

Since nothing would make us happier than giving away the 2 free tickets we've gotten (worth $1295 each) to the most deserving AP readers, I had Cameron immediately fire up the giveaway last week. After receiving about 50 entries, it's now time to announce the two winners who would be getting entry to the conference and Sunday workshops for free.

Sep

And The 12 Android Figurines Giveaway Winners Are...

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways

Wow, you guys sure like Android figurines - with almost 1,100 entries, the giveaway post is now our most commented post ever. After letting a whirlwind of randomness and chaos work its magic on the list of entries, I'm now ready to congratulate the following folks who will be getting a free figurine from VinylFigurines.com shipped to their doorsteps:

Foglock
bccbryan
Michal
Ryan
Chad
Justin
Did
Chapman
MontanaNights
Jaz
tdavis42
Peter

We've passed your emails to Omar from Vinyl Figurines, so you should be getting some info from him shortly. Thanks for playing!

If you didn't win, you may still consider picking up some figurines straight from VinylFigurines.com - I certainly love their company.

Sep

Creative Contest: Design Our New Banner, Win A 32GB Lenovo IdeaPad K1 Honeycomb Tablet

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways, IdeaPad K1, Lenovo

Last Updated: October 3rd, 2011

Out of all the giveaway/contests we do here at AP, my favorites always end up being the creative kinds because they always leave us with long-lasting memories and give a chance to truly talented people who put in work into their entries. Such were the photo, the Twitter design, t-shirt design, and most recently the 404 page design giveaways (the last one being my favorite).

The Contest

It's now time to launch another creative giveaway because 1) everyone likes free stuff and 2) we need banners.

Good banners. Creative banners. Banners we won't be embarrassed to give our partners and fans to put on their sites.

Sep

And The 3 Best Out Of Milk Giveaway Comments Are...

Posted by David Ruddock in Applications, Contests / Giveaways

Remember our Out of Milk giveaway? Come on, it was like, a few days ago. If you don't, we gave away 25 copies of the Pro version of this absolutely fantastic shopping and pantry organization app to the comments here and on Google+ that we enjoyed the most. Here they are.

From "Klaus with a "K"" in the post comments:

“Honey? We're out of milk. – again!”

When milk is what you need
and shopping warnings were not heed
Then You, my friend, are out of luck
and in the doghouse surely stuck

You need to shop with care
and plan your trip with flair

Can’t decipher illegible doodles
will end you up buying noodles

Don’t bring home salami
knowing everyone eats pastrami

And when all that’s needed is a bit of oats
you better not come rolling home with goats

No listed item should be carelessly omitted
or for sure you will be deemed nit-witted.

Sep

[Giant Giveaway #7: Special Edition] No, You Aren't Dreaming - Win A DROID BIONIC From Android Police And Stack Exchange

Posted by David Ruddock in 4G, Bionic, Contests / Giveaways, Verizon Wireless

Last Updated: September 13th, 2011

Yep, you read that right - we're giving away a DROID BIONIC, and it's not even out yet (well, it will be in less than 24 hours), courtesy of the awesome folks over at Stack Exchange. Why? Because we want to help supercharge Stack's amazing Android Q&A site, Android Stack Exchange.

Android Stack Exchange, a child of the StackOverflow family of sites, is sort of like a dedicated Android Q&A Reddit + Wiki + FAQ for answering all your questions about everything Android. It really is pretty amazing, and unlike Stack Overflow, it's not aimed at developers - on the contrary, it's for users like me and you.

Sep

[Updated] Want Some Of Those Awesome Android Vinyl Figurines? We're Giving Away 12 Of Them Together With VinylFigurines.com

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Contests / Giveaways

Last Updated: September 10th, 2011

Many of you have been asking how you could get your hands on those little Android guys that you can usually see hanging out in my reviews. Like these ones here:

I've personally acquired them over time - at Google I/O, the Lookout party, and Dead Zebra itself (no, you can't have mine!), but that's not the only way.

A good friend of ours, Omar Trujillo, also known as @0mie, partnered with us to promote his official vinyl figurines store where you can pick up authentic, Google-licensed, Dead Zebra-designed vinyl Android figurines and give them a new home.