Amazon partners with Verizon, offers $25 Amazon in-app store credit to Verizon subscribers

Amazon is doing such a good job marketing its newly launched App store that the customers are enjoying more and more perks from the online store. Now, to further promote their app store, Amazon in cooperation with Verizon offers an initial $25 in-store credit to newly signed Verizon Wireless customers who buy an Android phone with the network.

Through this, Verizon Wireless customers gets a head-start in app purchasing from Amazon’s catalog of over 7,500 apps including the popular Angry Birds and EA titles. This can be a start of a stronger future ahead of Amazon venturing into mobile apps and payments. We might be able to see their online books, music and movies being sold to Android phone users in the months to come.

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LiVe mobile app aims to fight childhood obesity. Details:

Developed in cooperation with Intermountain, a Salt Lake City-based hospital, the LiVe app for both the iOS and Android helps in mobilizing its campaign to both parents and children. The app explains different tips and reasons why a kid on their early age should choose a healthier lifestyle.

The app suggests different physical activities that is themed to be child-friendly with most activities being games that appeal to kids. The built-in food tracker on the other hand, lets users input what kinds of food they ate on any given day to track overall progress.

LiVe mobile app is available for download in iTunes and Android MarketPlace for free.

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UK iPad 2 arriving on online shoppers’ homes, sooner than expected.

Those of you who tried to get an iPad 2 the day it was released either got what you wanted by going in line outside retail stores a few days before or stayed up all night and sniped through your local Apple online store. If you’re one of the few who got the chance to buy the iPad 2 on the same day, then we congratulate you. If not, then you might one of the thousands if not millions of people waiting that sweet package to arrive at your home.

This might be consoling news as a few reports suggest that the iPad 2 home deliveries are arriving two to three days earlier in the UK. This is the same for Germany, France and Italy.

It seems like Apple is stepping up their production deadlines in order to take advantage of the ridiculous demand that has brought sales of more than 4 million units of iPad 2 in its first month alone. Projections suggest that this number will go up to 12 million total in 2011 alone.

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T-Mobile G2X priced at $1000 on eBay

For those who can’t wait 12 days and have a thousand dollars to burn on a T-Mobile G2x, then eBay is the right place to look for it. The much awaited first ever Motorola phone that will not run the Motorola Blur is available on eBay for almost double the price. Although I don’t see the point of getting it since T-Mobile itself will launch the phone on April 20.

The T-Mobile G2X is powered by a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 Processor an will be running Anroid 2.2 Froyo. Its screen will be a 4 inch capacitive touchscreen. The camera sports an 8 megapixel one capable of recording 720p HD videos.

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AllSport GPS for Android gets a major UI redesign and more

To those who don’t know, AllSport GPS is an app designed for social networking addicts who are on the go. The app lets you scan through sports activities shared by other and as well as sharing your own biking or hiking trips through the app. Now the guys at Trimble Outdoor has decided to redesign its whole interface and add more features to it.

Users can now take pictures and videos from the trips they share, add geotagging and you get a first hand look of what a place can offer for active sports goers.

Another major addition is a built in weather reporter which is important for people who plan to go on long out of town trips.

AllSport GPS is available in the Android MarketPlace for $1.

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