Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve already given you plenty of reasons to head on out to Expand this weekend in San Francisco, on top of a truly action-packed agenda. And anyone who has been to an Engadget event before knows we make it a habit of giving away beaucoup gadgets to attendees. But what exactly could you go home with from Expand?

We’re glad you asked! We’ve worked with our sponsors and partners to come up with a seriously healthy list of giveaway items you could walk away with as your very own.

Read on to find out what you could win at Expand…

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In celebration of Expand, our first enormous electronics extravaganza next weekend at San Francisco’s Fort Mason, we’re giving away 5 pairs of tickets to 5 lucky @EngadgetExpand followers. This will be your last chance to score a free pass before the big event, so be sure to join us for this one!

Here’s how to enter: mention @EngadgetExpand in a tweet that also includes which session in the now fully-unveiled agenda you are most looking forward to. That might not be the easiest task, since there will be a lot going on at the show: from DJ Spooky‘s live performance to Veronica Belmont‘s appearance on the Sci-Fi panel to Make Magazine’s Mark Frauenfelder co-hosting the Insert Coin awards – and then some. To be eligible to enter, you must be 18 years of age and a U.S. resident (please peruse the full rules). Get your tweets in by midnight EST this Sunday night for your chance to win; we’ll choose 5 entries at random to each receive a free pair of tickets.

Read on for our Samsung Galaxy Camera winner…

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The latest numbers from ComScore show Apple strengthening its lead as the top US handset maker, with the iPhone nabbing an estimated 37.8 percent of the market as of January 2013. That’s a 3.5-point boost from October of last year, putting healthy distance between Cupertino and the number-two smartphone maker, Samsung. That’s not to say the Korean giant hasn’t grown as well; its estimated 21.4-percent slice of the pie is up a more modest 1.9 points.

Apple’s growth on the hardware front naturally has implications on the software side, and indeed this is the first time Android took a hit while iOS grew. According to the survey, Google’s OS still maintains a healthy 52.3 percent compared to Apple’s 37.8, but it’s down 1.3 points while iOS saw a small boost. Where does that leave BlackBerry, Windows Phone and the rest of the gang? Pretty far behind — as you can see for yourself in the chart below the break.

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Via: The Next Web

Source: ComScore

We’re taking the literal Gizmodo TV show on the literal road to give you guys a chance to see some clips before we air on BBC America on March 18th. (10:20PM after Top Gear!) And because I know seeing my pasty mug isn’t enticement enough, we teamed up with our friends Matt Hardigree and Travis Okulski from Jalopnik, not just because we enjoy their company (they’re actually terrible), but because they’ve got the pull to let us travel in style: I’m writing this now from the heated back seats of a 470 HP 2014 Grand Cherokee SRT over its built-in Wi-Fi hotspot. Not too shabby. More »

If you’ve been following along with our speaker announcements for Expand, you know we’ve already got a lineup chock full of some of the most interesting technologists at the forefront of innovation. You’ll also appreciate that this last batch is a bit of a doozy — consider this the big reveal before the Big Reveal of the full agenda, coming very soon:

• Nate Mitchell: Vice President of Product, Oculus Rift
• Jason Parrish: Director, Lenovo ThinkPad Strategy & Planning
• Hod Lipson: Professor of Engineering, Cornell University
• Tamar Yehoshua: Director of Product Management, Google
• Ujesh Desai: Vice President of Product Marketing, NVIDIA
• Bob Heddle: Director, Kinect for Windows at Microsoft
• John Wilson: Vice President, Systems Product Group, Razer
• Corinna Proctor: Senior Research Manager, Lenovo User Research Center
• Jim Denney: Vice President of Product Marketing, TiVo

Here’s why else you need to be at Expand…

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