Surprise, surprise. The Garmin-Asus Garminfone has dropped in price. Again. But this time, it appears to apply only to existing T-Mobile customers. Tmo has sent out emails to existing customers, informing them that they can now pick up a Garminfone for only $99 (with 2-year contract & $50 mail-in rebate), meaning they get an instant $30 discount. This may be a special promotion or a last ditch attempt to sell as many Garminfones as possible, but it doesn’t look like we’ll be seeing this GPS-laden Android phone much longer.
This is somewhat startling, considering that we covered another price drop just 3 weeks ago. The navigation-savvy device is declining in popularity faster than expected. T-Mobile may not like it, but the Garminfone is going downhill. Fast.
Via DroidDog
NOTE: Garminfone Price Drops Again, but only for existing customers originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
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LauncherPro is a pretty popular home replacement. With its pinch-to-zoom, custom docks, and endless settings, it certainly packs a punch. You can even change icons on the homescreen. A new website called LauncherPro Icons has launched, and, as the name suggests, it’s devoted to custom icons for LauncherPro. They also have some snazzy docks for download on the site.
So why are you still here? Check it out for yourself and make your LauncherPro one-of-a-kind!
NOTE: LauncherPro Icons site goes live originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
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DroidGamers has announced the prizes for the winners of their Android Gaming Challenge. 1st place gets you a free Android phone from WireFly or a free dell streak from Scoreloop, along with a t-shirt, stickers, a load of free games, and a one-of-a-kind DroidGamers watch. 2nd place will land you whatever device the 1st place winner doesn’t choose, games, free apps, a t-shirt, themes, and much more!
The 3rd place winner will receive everything the 2nd place winner does, minus the device. 4th & 5th place winners will get their hands on a t-shirt, stickers, 3 free HeroCraft games, free copies of numerous other games, and a free theme from Extreme Themes. Last, but not least, the 6th place winner gets the same as 4th and 5th place, except the t-shirt, stickers, and theme. So get to playin’ and win you a free Android phone!
NOTE: Android Gaming Challenge Prizes Announced originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
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The GenTouch 78 by Augen garnered an amazing amount of interest from the Android community when K-Mart revealed it in one of their circulars for a few days ago. The tablet debuted at $150 and had a good amount of you scrambling about to see if you could find one in your local K-Mart stores. Even with it not being the most capable tablet we’ve seen, the community’s excited about it and it clearly shows that demand for Android tablets is real and the market for them could explode any day now.
Cyanogen and his team that never sleeps have shown an immense amount of interest, as well, as they’re bringing CM6 to the tablet (the first tablet to receive such an honor). Specifically, popular developer TheDude has been the one tinkering with the device for the past few days and has gotten the FroYo-laden CM6 running on it and is working on tweaking it for that nice 7-inch screen. Cyanogen’s humorous “tips” widget is shown between the search and music widgets, with the bottom-most row holding 8 icons horizontally (from the looks of things, the launcher is an 8 wide x 6 tall grid).
Be sure to follow TheDude on Twitter if his developments interest you and if you’re thinking of picking one of these up for yourself.
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We’re still not entirely sure what’s planned for a couple of HTC codename-phones that have been floating around — the Ace and Vision, but damned if they haven’t appeared in an inventory system for Vodafone D2 in Germany as the Desire HD (a name we’ve heard before) and Desire Z, respectively. German blog BestBoyZ says the Desire HD should be similar to the aluminum unibody design of the HTC Legend (read our full review of that one), and have features of of the HD2 and Desire (whatever that means).
Now, any release here in the U.S. is likely to come under some other name, but it looks like these phones may be closer to breaking their cover. Oh, and do note the addition of the original Desire with its new SLCD screen listed. [BestBoyZ via Google Translate] Thanks, Patrick!
Posted originally at Android Central
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Speaking with Reuters, Samsung confirmed that they plan to release an Android based Tablet PC in Q3 this year. This places Samsung firmly in competition with LG, Acer, Dell, Toshiba and others that have announced Android based tablets. Samsung is the number 2 handset manufacturer worldwide second only to Nokia (who is struggling to gain a foothold in the smartphone market in the US). Though not many details are known regading the Samsung tablet device it is said to have a 7″ Super AMOLED screen according to Samsung. The device is also rumored to sport a 1.2Ghz CPU in the Hummingbird family (the same family used in Samsung’s Galaxy S phone series), Carry 16GB on internal storage with a microSDHC slot for external storage, A 4000 mHa battery and run Android 2.2.
NOTE: Samsung introducing Android Tablet in Q3 originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
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The popular social networking app, SCVNGR, has begun offering some real rewards for checking in. Marketwire.com gives us a great synopsis of how both venues and customers can benefit from using SCVNGR every time we go out.
To quote marketwire:
Today, we’re launching a new feature on SCVNGR. It’s a game element called the reward. And it’s a thing (like free coffee, half off a sandwich, a discount on dry cleaning or two-for-one ice cream sundaes) that you unlock from your favorite businesses, or reward to your happy customers, by earning enough points.
The national rollout is going to start out in ten major cities over the next two months, and then will escalate to other cities. Certain venues like Journeys has already started offering rewards in their 800+ locations.
You may remember earlier in July, we here at Androidguys did a review on SCVNGR. The trend seems to be catching on. We’re not saying you have to stop using GoWalla or Foursquare (We did a review on that one, too!) but we are saying that you can rake in some serious prizes by using this free app.
What do you guys think? Are you already using this app? Have you done the social check ins and played the challenges with your friends? Let us know how it’s working out for you!
NOTE: SCVNGR Announces Rewards for Check-Ins originally appeared on AndroidGuys.
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