iPhone Live! hits the nets again tonight (Wednesday, Feb. 11) at 8pm EST/5pm PST. (Pre-show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early!)
As always, we’ll take your chat questions live on the show, or leave them for us any time in the comments below, or send them to @theiphoneblog on Twitter.
Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live
Chat with you soon!
Congrats to our HanDBase Give Away winners, and thanks again to HanDBase for making it happen! (Congrats also to our Slacker Plus winners on the forum from the week before!) Let us know how you enjoy your new productivity!
Winners after the break!
HanDBase should be familiar to the hardcore mobile data crunchers among us: it puts relational database management in your pocket. Now the fine folks at DDH Software have not only brought it to the iPhone, but they’re gracious enough to give it away FREE to 10 lucky TiPb readers!
But wait, there’s more: you can score not only the HandDBase iPhone App FREE, but your choice of either PC Desktop + Conduit or Mac Desktop and future conduit.
What do you have to do for a chance to win? Simple: just leave a comment below telling us, and HanDBase, why exactly you want to crunch all that data on your iPhone. Enter, search, sort, filter, print, and sync — what’cha going to do with all that mobile power?
NOTE: Be sure to leave a real email address in the comment field. It won’t be made public, but we will need it to contact you if you win!
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Alex Evans, GroupWise Product Manager has announced in his blog that the ActiveSync protocol is coming to GroupWise in a future update. What does this new native support mean for iPhone users? Well, it means that you will be able to sync your GroupWise calendar and contacts to your iPhone via the Exchange conduit (located under Settings–>Mail–>Add Account). This is truly exciting. ActiveSync is quickly becoming the mobile sync standard for devices and businesses that do not have or cannot connect to a BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES). Of course, there is the variable of your IT supporting this feature, but it is still a reason to rejoice! I recommend sending this article to your GroupWise Admin staff to inform them of the update 
For those of you not using and iPhone, this also means you can sync to on supported devices too, such as the Palm Centro, Palm Pre, Palm Treo Pro and other Windows Mobile devices and Symbian OS.
Finally! I can haz groupwise sync!
We kick off the next iPhone Live! tonight (Wednesday, Jan. 28) at 8pm EST/5pm PST. (Pre show will start about 10 min. before if you want to drop by early!)
This week we’ll FINALLY get into some iPhone vs. Palm Pre (technical and legal!) action with Smartphone Expert’s editor-in-chief — and resident Palm expert — Dieter Bohn who was live at the keynote and got quite a bit of hands-on time with the Pre at CES. Is it better? Can it compete? How will Apple answer? Or will those multi-touch patents stop Palm dead in their tracks?
(We’ll also cover iPhone OS 2.2.1, what it might mean for Jailbreak/Unlock, and catch up on Apple’s iPhone numbers from last week’s conference call).
Join in via http://www.tipb.com/live
Chat with you soon!
The kind folks at Slacker have offered up 1 month of Slacker Radio Plus — their premium service that removes the ads and bolts on more personalization options — absolutely FREE to you, the TiPb faithful (or at least 10 of you!).
Here’s what you need to do:
Get to it!
As it did the year before, the Smartphone Round Robin needed to go into overtime again this time around — but we’re finished now! If you haven’t been following along, here’s what you missed: Each of the editors of our five Smartphone Experts sites swapped phones for a week or so, reviewing and leanring what it’s like to wear another smarphone user’s shoes. The result is the entire series of articles you see linked on this handy page, the Smartphone Round Robin of 2008.
What will you learn there? You’ll learn that there was no single smartphone that ‘won’ the Round Robin — but that’s by design. There’s no perfect smartphone out there, but there just might be the perfect smartphone to fit your needs. If you’re looking to get a new smartphone soon, think about what you need it do to and then hit up these articles — you’ll find that depending on what each of us care about, we’ll give you a useful perspective on whether a given smartphone matches up.
Actually, we explain it all pretty well on this page. Oh, yeah, one more thing, we are giving away fabulous prizes:
First, thanks again to Element Case for the awesome TiPb branded casing nirvana (see Jeremy’s review) they provided for us to pass along to you, our readers. Second, thanks very much to everyone who participated in our first 2 (of a total 3 — 1 more still to come!) Element Case give-away’s!
Give away #1 involved heading over to our forums and telling us why YOU needed Element Case-caliber for your iPhone. Many of you shared great, funny, sad, and in some cases inspiring stories. Everyone who shared got an entry, and from all those eligible entries we got our first winner:
Give away #2 was for those of you who joined us in the chat room for iPhone Live! We gave you a secret code word and you emailed it to us. Everyone who emailed the code word got an entry, and from those eligible entries, we got our second winner:
Congrats to both of you! We’ll contact you directly to arrange delivery of your custom TiPb Element Case, and everyone else — keep your eyes peeled because we still have one (1) case left to give away!
We missed iPhone Live! last week due to the hectic pace imposed by Macworld and CES, so just like last time when yours truly invaded Phone different, this time Phone different is invading iPhone Live!
Join me in joining TiPb’s editor-in-chief, Dieter Bohn, and editor-emeritus, Mike Overbo, for a special Macworld-roundup edition of Phone different on iPhone Live tonight at 8pm EST.
And did we mention we’ll be giving away one of the custom TiPb branded Element Cases to one lucky live chatter? That’s right. Get the details tonight via:
http://www.theiphoneblog.com/live/
See ya there!
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