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iPhone Live! comes to you tonight (Wednesday, June 10) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

We told you we were going weekly and we meant it!

As always, pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early and reserve a space in our still capacity-challenged chat room. See you then!

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iPhone Live! comes to you tonight (Wednesday, May 27) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early. We’ll have the live chat going to take your questions. You can also leave us questions in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.

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iPhone Live! comes to you tonight (Wednesday, May 13) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early. We’ll have the live chat going to take your questions. You can also leave us questions in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.

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As previously announced, TiPb celebrates our one year anniversary on May 11, and as a giant thanks to you, our members, we’re celebrating in style. Birthday Bash style! Starting tomorrow, we begin a slew of daily give-aways including iPhone accessories, promo codes for some of our favorite apps, iTunes gift cards, and… our biggest grand-prize so far:

• A factory unlocked 8GB iPhone 3G in your choice of 35 different color options courtesy of the awesome folks at ColorWare.

That’s right. Your iPhone. Your way.

How can you win? Simple! Remember those daily give-aways we just mentioned? Enter them (this here Birthday Bash link will help you keep track!). Every time you enter one of the give-away contests, you are automagically entered to win the grand-prize.

Contests start tomorrow, May 7, 2009. Announcements will be here on the blog, but the contests themselves will take place on the TiPb iPhone Forums so if for some unimaginable reason you haven’t yet — register now!

Contest details after the break!

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ngmoco has gone and set up a little media tournament, taking place on Twitter, with their hawt new game, StarDefense. Suiting up on TiPb’s behalf is yours truly, and you can follow my progress, and everyone’s progress, through the elimination rounds via @ngmoco or individually:

• Rene Ritchie/the iPhone Blog (@reneritchie)
• Chris Foreman/Ars Technica (@foresmac)
• Brandon Boyer/Boing Boing (@brandonnn)
• Bryan Barletta/148Apps (@BryanNO)
• Eli Hodapp/Touch Arcade (@hodapp)
• Tracy Erickson/Pocket Gamer (@TracyErickson)
• John Davidson/What They Play (@jwdavidson)
• Victor Lucas/Electric Playground (@Victor_Lucas)
• N’gai Croal/Hit Detection (@ncroal)
• Patrick Kelpek/G4TV.com (@eXxy)
• Levi Buchanan/IGN

Best of luck and… bring it on!

May 11 marks the anniversary of the original Phone different and the iPhone blog’s transformation and merger into — the all new TiPb! To celebrate, we’ll be counting down and giving away fabulous prizes including iPhone accessories from the TiPb Store, promo codes for some of our favorite iPhone apps, gift certificates, and and grand prize big enough to blow our previous contests away!

The Birthday Bash officially kicks off Thursday, May 7, and will take place primarily on our TiPb iPhone Forums. If you haven’t already, get over there, register now and start posting. To help you get started we’re even going to run a little pre-celebration contest contest!

No, that’s not a typo. We’re going to be running so many contests next week, we’re running out of ideas for them! That’s where we can use your help:

• Go to the TiPb Birthday Bash: Pre-Celebration Contest Contest! thread on the forums
• Tell us your best, most favorite idea for a contest. (i.e. caption a funny photo, write an iPhone haiku, etc.)
• Keep it short, simple, and sweet. (We have the big stuff covered, but you can help us fill in the rest).
• If we pick your idea, we’ll thank you with a $20 iTunes Gift Card (US or Canada stores only).
• We may need several ideas, so don’t be shy! Bring ‘em on!

Whatcha waiting for? Get going! The countdown to the Birthday Bash Countdown starts now!

iPhone Live! comes to you tonight (Wednesday, April 29) at 8pm EDT/5pm PDT.

Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early. With iPhone 3.0 Beta 4 released like clockwork, we’ll likely have a few things to talk about but more importantly, we’ll have the live chat going to take your questions. You can also leave us questions in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.

Oh, and we may just have a BIG announcement to make…

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I’d do the same thing I offered to do for a BlackBerry Storm: try using one. Believe me, for someone who’s mellow has been 100% de-harshened by the iPhone, that’s a contest ender.

Luckily for all of us, I’m not allowed to enter our sibling site, PreCentral.net’s awesome new Palm Pre contest. But maybe YOU can!

Think you have what it takes to win a FREE Palm Pre? Time to put up or shut up! PreCentral.net is giving away FIVE Palm Pre Phones the day that the Palm Pre is released. In addition, we’re sweetening the deal by making them into full-on Palm Pre Packs, including:

• A Palm Pre Smartphone on Sprint
• A $100 Amazon Gift Card to fill your Pre up with music
• A Touchstone Charging Station & Battery Cover
• Any case from the PreCentral.net Accessory Store
• A Set of Motorola S9-HD Bluetooth Stereo Headphones (A $99 value) to rock out with your Pre

If the qualifiers end up anywhere near as fantastic as last year’s CrackBerry.com’s Storm give-away, we should be in for some epic tattooed, mud wrasslin, paint-ball blasted, smartphone smashed, Palm Pre fun.

Kudos to PreCentral, and best of luck to all the contestants!

We covered some new finds in iPhone 3.0 over the weekend, including MobileMe data merge and commercial Wi-Fi auto-join, but we’ve also updated our complete iPhone 3.0 walkthrough with all that and more, so if you haven’t checked it out lately, go take a look.

It’s still months from Apple’s nebulous ‘”summer” release date, so more will change, and maybe even a bit more will be added before it drops, let us know if there’s anything specific you’re looking for, from Apple, or from us!

Our sibling site, PreCentral.net has just pulled a Palm, getting a great new look backed up by rock-solid Web-based underpinnings. Some would call it Karma, we call it the tireless work of our ole’ editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn, the awesome crew at PreCentral.net, and the backstage magicians at Smartphone Experts.

If you haven’t already, check out PreCentral.net for all the latest news and views on Palm’s upcoming new miracle device, the Palm Pre, inarguably the second most anticipated device launch (after our own next-gen iPhone, ‘natch!) coming some mid-point this year.

Congrats again to the PC team! Great new look, same great content.

(And in keeping with the Palm Pre Pun Prevention Pledge, not a single groan was prepended to this post!)