New iPhone app for college students called Amazon Student.

Amazon today released a new iPhone app for college students called Amazon Student. This one’s not about renting Kindle textbooks, there’s already an app for that. What Amazon Student does is it lets you trade used textbooks from the palm of your hand. Just scan barcodes of as many books as you like and the Amazon cloud will calculate trade-in offers for you. This also works for games, movies and electronics (including iOS gadgets). You can also put scanned items into your trade-in list to buy later.

Payments go to your Gift Card and Amazon will even mail a pre-paid shipping label to your address on file. Sweetening the deal, the online retail giant is offering free two-day shipping for six months to those who join the Amazon Student program (Amazon Prime shipping benefits included). Beats the craze of having to put your unwanted textbooks on offer at the end of each semester and deal with all sorts of weirdos and trade-in combinations. 

Amazon Student is a free download from the App Store.

[via 9to5mac.com]

Motorola DEFY + is preparing to enter the market in autumn

A month ago we learned that Motorola DEFY + will join a collection of AT & T and O2 , but today Motorola Mobility has made ​​an official statement regarding the release date. DEFY + smartphone goes on sale this fall. Novelty is not only waterproof, but also protection from scratches and dust, all in accordance with the standards of IP67. Themselves with a gigahertz processor, Motorola DEFY + controlled by the operating system, Android 2.3 Gingerbread. Display Corning Gorilla Glass protects the screen from scratches.

It is expected that the smartphone will also be available on the market in Asia, Europe and Latin America.

Above all, Motorola DEFY + has a wide range of "smart" accessories such as docking stations, Vehicle Dock, Car Kit Bluetooth Car Kit and a pair of portable battery chargers.

No word on pricing, but I would like them to be within reasonable limits.