There is no doubt about it; ever since the launch Android, Amazon has been looking for better ways to take their piece of the proverbial pie. Aside from having cool deals on phones they’ve launched apps, cloud services, a music store and now the push is on to entice users into using their own app store. For Amazon, who says Android devices are they’re best sellers when it comes to mobile devices– this is big business users are benefiting.

This week we have a great Dinc Sense ROM — Carbonite Fusion by trock70.  Romaholic and Dinc lover (also quite the writer) PvilleComp gives us a look at this one, which delivers Sense with a very nice look and some excellent tweaks.  Little touches like porting over graphics from TouchWiz, and the notification toggles gives it a really unique look and feel.  I’ll let you read it for yourself, but I have to give a shout out to trock70 — this one looks like Sense done right.  Thanks for the review Mike!

Set to roll out in phases, a software update for Android’s candy bar with a keyboard, the Motorola Droid Pro, released late this week adds data encryption of contents stored on the microSD card and the phone itself along with a slew of other enhancements.  Amongst the changes,  Exchange ActiveSync received a healthy update to it’s policies, email, and calendar, plus some bug fixes.  IPSec VPN joined forces with Google’s VPN and combined their settings menus.  A proxy server can now be defined within the Wi-Fi settings and Verizon’s marked it with their VCAST app.  Some other minor bugs are squashed with the update as well.  Full release notes after the break.  Twitter

We mentioned last month that the folks at Skyfire were working on a big update that would bring a new set of features as well as a new pricing model, and today is the day it becomes available.  There was some talk about that pricing model, so let’s get that cleared up right away.  All the features you currently use in Skyfire will remain free.  The pricing revolves around what they’re calling CAAS (Compression As A Service).  It uses Google’s new Android in-app purchasing to pay for “video cloud acceleration”.  Pay a one time fee of $2.99 and Skyfire renders and compresses video content on their servers, which offers up a more mobile optimized experience and saves both data usage and battery life.  Now before you start grumbling, Skyfire also says the three million of you who currently use Skyfire are grandfathered in and there will be no charge.  In addition, users who download Skyfire 4.0 through the VCast apps section of the Market n your Verizon phones will also get the service free.  Now we can all grumble a little bit at content deals, but not too much.  $2.99 isn’t a bad price at all if you need to watch your data usage.

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