GeoWalk Spans the Globe for iPad2 Giveaway [Review]

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Vito Technology, developers of the wildly successful iOS astronomy app Star Walk celebrates the company’s 10th birthday this week with an update to its more recently released geography app, Geo Walk 3D World Factboook — and especially for Cult of Mac readers — an iPad2 giveaway.

Geo Walk is one of those apps that, while engaging and interesting enough on the smaller iPhone screen, finds new life and greater dimensions of engagement when used on an iPad.

The 2.0 update, which hit the iTunes App Store last Friday amid the hype of iPad2’s official launch, draws users in with a spinning digital globe tagged with 500 location-based pop-up flash cards filled with information about interesting animals, plants, landmarks and historical figures associated with a trek across the globe.

The UI is smooth and sexy, with excellent graphics and photography that pop nicely on both the iPhone 4’s retina display and the beefed-up graphics engine of the iPad2. Users can filter pop-ups by category or view them in slideshow/carousel mode and take a game-show style quiz to test retention of the knowledge gained by time spent with the app.

500 factoids can be memorized surprisingly fast for the average user and hopefully Vito Technologies’ developers will be updating the app at regular intervals to keep users interested in coming back to it often.

For a chance to win a new iPad2 or one of 4 app codes, readers should Like Geo walk on Facebook, OR follow @GeoWalk on Twitter AND post the link to this contest on one of those social network services.

Then, in comments below, post a link to your Facebook or Twitter post and we’ll choose winners randomly on Friday, March 18.

Posting multiple links on Facebook or Twitter will not increase your chances of winning, nor will posting on both networks. Simply choose your favorite and post a link to this contest – that’s all it takes.

Geo Walk for iPhone is 99¢ — for iPad it’s $2.99 — and requires iOS 3.2 or later.

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