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TiPb Give-Away: Navigon MobileNavigator and Macworld Guided Tour!

By Rene Ritchie, Friday, Feb 5, 2010 a 9:52 am

MobileNavigator [$69.99 on sale - iTunes link] maker Navigon is going to be at Macworld 2010 next week and knowing them, they may just have a few surprises in store for the show! You'll be able to find out all about them first hand from Navigon, February 11-13 at booth #575 (or second hand from TiPb if you're following along online).

To celebrate, Navigon is giving TiPb readers a chance to get MobileNavigator for FREE!

If you're going to be at Macworld, Navigon is offering:

Win a 32GB iPod touch! (Survey)

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Feb 4, 2010 a 2:59 pm

Developers take note: Interpret is looking to find a bit more about you and they have a brief survey to do just that - finish it, enter your info at the end, and be entered into a drawing for a FREE 32GB iPod touch. Non-developers, feel free to take part to be entered as well. Either way, go on and let 'em know how you're feeling about mobile apps these days.

TiPb Responds to iPhone Reviews -- Smartphone Round Robin

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Feb 2, 2010 a 10:00 pm

Over the last 5 weeks of the 3rd Annual Smartphone Round Robin, the editors of our sibling sites, Casey from AndroidCentral.com, Kevin from CrackBerry.com, Matt from NokiaExperts.com, Dieter from PreCentral.net, and Phil from WMExperts.com have all had their chance to review TiPb's flagship iPhone 3GS. And we've just had to sit here and take it, the good and the bad, the raves and the rants. Well, it's week 6 now, baby, and TiPb gets to retort!

TiPb Give Away: 10 FREE Copies of eBuddy Pro for iPhone!

By Jeremy, Tuesday, Feb 2, 2010 a 10:40 am

Yes we are back with yet another give away for all of the TiPb readers out there. This time the folks over at eBuddy have given us 10 FREE copies of their instant messenger client, eBuddy Pro! [iTunes Link - $4.99]

TiPb Give Away: 10 FREE Copies of Twitbit for iPhone!

By Jeremy, Monday, Jan 25, 2010 a 1:01 pm

TiPb loves to give back to our readers with our give aways, so why not give away my personal favorite Twitter app in all of the Apple App Store, Twitbit!

Our good friends over at High Order Bit have been generous enough to share 10 FREE copies of their Twitbit application to give you! If you want in on the action, all you have to do is visit this thread in our iPhone forums and leave a single post telling High Order Bit what feature you would like to see added to the already feature filled Twitbit!

Palm Pre, Palm Pix, webOS Review from an iPhone Perspective -- Smartphone Round Robin

By Rene Ritchie, Sunday, Jan 24, 2010 a 3:10 pm

My first smartphone was a Palm Treo 600 and so my last 2009 Smartphone Round Robin "away" review focusing on Palm's new webOS platform as embodied by the Palm Pre and Palm Pix does not lack for symmetry. Between the two, last year I reviewed the Palm Treo Pro which I quipped was more HTC than Palm, ran Windows Mobile and not a Palm-made OS, and had a keyboard that was hard to consider "pro" level. 3 years of round robin, three totally different platforms from Palm, and only this review for me to try and make my own sense out of it.

Luckily I had the mobile accomplisher himself, our editor-in-chief Dieter Bohn to show me Palm's new platform and their new devices, and the truly exceptional community over at PreCentral.net Forums to help understand where it's at and where it's going.

(And just a reminder, every day you post on that PreCentral.net thread, or any of the official Round Robin threads, is another day you're entered to win one of six (6!) new smartphones!)

Now let's get this on...

TiPb Give Away: 10 FREE Slacker Plus Subscriptions Up for Grabs!

By Rene Ritchie, Thursday, Jan 21, 2010 a 12:14 pm

To celebrate their Canadian launch, the fine folks at Slacker are teaming up with TiPb to offer you 10 FREE Slacker Radio Plus subscriptions. Here's the break-down:

3 first prizes -- 1 year FREE Slacker Plus subscriptions
7 runner-up prizes -- 3 month FREE Slacker Plus subscriptions

(And yes, it's open to American Slacker listeners too. Love. Up.)

Here's how to enter:

Make sure you have a free Slacker basic account (they'll need the account info to make the upgrade).
Head on over to the TiPb iPhone Forums and tell us the name of a great song you've recently discovered.
Contest starts now and ends Saturday, Jan. 23, 12pm PST.

You don't have to have discovered the song on Slacker (but hey, let us know if you did). We need recommendations, TiPb-verse!

And just to make you want to go enter now, we're listing the Slacker Plus features again... after the break!

iPhone Hands-on from a Nokia Expert's Perspective -- Smartphone Round Robin

By Rene Ritchie, Tuesday, Jan 19, 2010 a 9:28 am

We're in the final "away" week of the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin, and since I began the event looking at Nokia, what better way to cap it off than with NokiaExperts' Matt Miller looking at our iPhone 3GS.

iPhone Review from CrackBerry Kevin -- Smartphone Round Robin

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jan 18, 2010 a 10:29 pm

Apple's third iPhone meets CrackBerry Kevin's third iPhone review, exclusively in the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin. Year one he called it the iSmudge. Then they got the Storm. Year two he called it the Ah *** phone. Then they got the Storm. (Joking. Not.) What's he calling the iPhone and iPhone users this year?

Palm Pre, Palm Pixi webOS Hands-on Video -- Smartphone Round Robin

By Rene Ritchie, Monday, Jan 18, 2010 a 2:47 pm

When last I left Palm they had but the Centro and some HTC Windows Mobile device to offer, now webOS and the Palm Pre and Palm Pixi's inform Week 6 of the 2009 Smartphone Round Robin. Talk about night and day. Lucky I have the daywalker himself, our illustrious editor-in-chief and PreCentral.net's own Dieter Bohn to show me how the brand new generation of Palm devices work. And works well.

Remember, every day you post on my PreCentral.net Forums thread, you're entered for a chance to win a webOS device of your very own. (And there's a total of 6 smartphones up for grabs -- one per SPE site -- so check them all out!)

This week also brings mobile powerhouse Matt Miller of Nokia Experts to TiPb's own iPhone. He's on the TiPb iPhone Forums and needs your help! Give him a hand and get a chance to win an iPhone 3GS for your troubles!

Video hands-on with Palm Pre and Palm Pixi, after the break!