To quoth our good friend Phil from WMExperts (and by that we mean shameless copy): It is time, ladies and gentlemen, for the sixth annual SPB Survey. SPB Software House is looking to get a better look at your needs in the mobile applications, and they’re doing so worldwide, with the survey going out in 10 languages.

And your time may be rewarded. Three winners, picked at random, will receive the following:

• First place: A free smartphone of your choice from a major Internet retailer (such as Amazon or Expansys), valued up to $1,000.
• Second place: $100 worth of accessories from Smartphone Experts (that’s us), plus $100 worth of SPB Software.
• Third place: $100 worth of SPB software.

So, really, you have no excuse for not taking the survey, which runs through 7 p.m. GMT Dec. 4, 2009. Take the survey now!

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Take SPB’s Survey, Win a Smartphone, SPE Accessories, and/or SPB Software!

Tuesday was all about the Twitter. Wednesday we took it iPhone Live! Well today, we bring it back home.

For your last chance to enter TiPb’s 32GB iPhone 3G S give away, just go over to the TiPb iPhone Forums and tell us the #1 reason you want to upgrade (if you already have an iPhone), or why you want to make this your first iPhone (if you’re currently rocking some other RAZRPreBerryDroidMobile97 device). Nothing fancy, just the deal-maker.

• One forum post per person
• The rest of the contest details

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TiPb 32GB iPhone 3G S Give Away Day Three – Last Chance to Enter!

And you? You’ve also just gotten three chances to win it over the next three days!

Tuesday’s Chance to Win a 32GB iPhone 3G S

For today’s entry, head on over to Twitter and help us let everyone know about the contest. Simply include @theiphoneblog and in your tweet (that’s how we’ll track you), and ask your friends and followers to pass along the good news, and you’ll get one entry in the contest. Here’re some examples:

• Want to win a 32GB iPhone 3G S from @theiphoneblog? Re-tweet this and check out http://bit.ly/G16Qt
• Zoinks! RT Now! @theiphoneblog is totally giving away a 32GB iPhone 3G S! http://bit.ly/G16Qt

You get the idea. No get thee to tweeting!

Give-away details after the break…

Them Details

• Grand prize is one (1) $399 US Apple Store gift certificate.
• Only one entry per twitter user (no spamming please)
• Only three entries total per person (one for each chance, one new chance each day)
• Contest starts now and ends Thursday, June 18 at 11:59pm
• Not open to Smartphone Experts employees or contractors

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TiPb’s 3 Chances to Win a 32GB iPhone 3G S — Enter Now!

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!

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Contest of the iClones: What Would You Do For a FREE Palm Pre?

Per the video above, Ocarina for iPhone developer, Smule, is giving away $10,000 — $1000 each for the top 10 Ocarina videos! How do you enter? Make a video response to the contest vid above, or put a video in their official group. How do you win?

Winners will be determined by a Smulean algorithm, combining number of ratings, average number of stars, and total number of views on YouTube. Smule will also be appointing a panel of judges to oversee the contest and they will have the ultimate decisive authority if needed.

Good luck everyone!

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Ocarina for iPhone Contest Blows!

To celebrate the launch of our new iPhone Live! Podcast, the iPhone blog is revving up yet another contest! What is it and how does it work?

Every week, on both the iPhone Live! and Phone different Podcasts, we here at TiPb will each be choosing our favorite iPhone accessories (courtesy of the TiPb iPhone store!), and adding them to the prize pack.

How to Enter

Each week, we’ll give you new chance to enter. It might be joining us on a social network, sending us a tweet, replying to a forum thread, etc. Listen to our podcasts (or check out the show notes) to find out the entry method for that week. Do it.

At the end of the week, we’ll pick a qualifier from everyone who successfully entered that week. Each qualifier will receive a 15% off coupon for the iPhone blog store, and be entered in our grand prize drawing.

Enter as many weeks as you like (though only 1 entry will be counted each week!). When we have all our qualifiers, we’ll pull a name out at random and they’ll win our Grand Prize: The Ultimate iPhone Accessory Pack!

Qualifiers

• Week 1: Facebook Fan Tara Bennett!
• Week 2: Twitterer John Gallagher (JohnG_NYC)!
• Week 3: TiPb Forum member, mszatny!
• Week 4: New Registrant Spazzola!

Prize Pack

iPhone Live! #1

• Rene: Blueant Z9i Bluetooth Headset
• Chad: Griffin PowerDuo

Phone different #30

• Mike: V-Moda Vibe Duo Headphones

iPhone Live! #2

• Brian: Belkin Sport Armband Plus with FastFit for iPhone 3G
• Casey: Seidio Innotraveler Car Kit

Phone different #31

• Jeremy: Case-Mate The Hipster for iPhone 3G
• Dieter: Mobi Cradle

Full details after the break!

Them Details:

1. Open to everybody in the US and Canada
2. One entry per week, but feel free to interact as much as ya like!
3. Contest will run each week for four weeks.
4. We’ll announce the previous week’s qualifier in the next week’s podcast (and show notes… and updated right here!)
5. Each qualifier will receive a 15% off coupon to TiPb’s iPhone Store
6. One qualifier will win the Ultimate iPhone Accessory Pack

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Ultimate iPhone Accessory Pack Give Away Contest!

The forums have been on fire lately due to Apple dropping the 2.2 firmware recently. So with that in mind we are going to start off with a thread asking is the 2.2 Firmware a Success?. Personally I could not be happier with the stability that the latest firmware has brought!

Happycamping is in something of a dilemma, iPhone or Blackberry? Help her out won’t you? She currently has a HTC Fuze and sadly that is going back to the store. (Sorry Dieter!)

The final two threads I want to put the spotlight on come from our very own TiPb editor, Rene! He recently started two small contests in our forums – Caption: Steve Explains Why No Copy/Paste and Name That BlackBerry Storm Hand-Pain Condition! Got what it takes to win? Give it a shot!

To join in on the action be sure to register, it will only take a few moments of you time, we promise!

See you on the forums!

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Today on the Forums: iPhone 2.2 a Success? iPhone or Blackberry? New Forum Contests!

Today on the forums we have a couple of “Official” TiPB threads. So these are some you do not want to miss!

First up , don’t forget to jump in on the action for your chance to win some free stuff! Everyone enjoys receiving free stuff right!? Check out the iPhone Live! #2 Contest Entry Thread. And for even more details regarding this new contest, please head on over to the Ultimate iPhone Accessory Give Away for all of the contest information.

Next up we have Casey’s very own thread, Round Robin: Casey Needs iPhone Help, Tips, Tricks, and Advice! What exactly does Casey need you help with you ask? How about your favorite thing about the iPhone 3G? Or how about your most used 3rd party app? So what are you waiting for? Please help out one of your beloved TiPB bloggers, and since this is an official ROUND ROBIN thread, posting will get you a chance to win a smartphone!

A few days back we mentioned that it’s possible we may see Apple’s latest firmware, 2.2, within the next week or so! So with that said, what do you think of the announced features? Disappointed? Not so disappointed? Whatever the case, make your voice heard!

Now before you can get in on the action, you have to join our growing community! It’s free and simple, so don’t waste another minute and add something to the conversation!

See you on the forums!

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Today on the Forums: Win a Smartphone by Helping Android Casey! Win Accessories Too! And Disappointed in 2.2 Features?

TiPb’s latest, greatest contest is AT WORK, where all the members of TiPb iPhone Exchange & Enterprise Forum votes on their top two Productivity Apps, we review them head to head and app-vs-app, and one of the voters wins the winning App!

Week 2 voting is now over, and the To Do/Task showdown is set: Things vs. Appigo To Do!

Brian will reveal the winning App tomorrow (Wednesday), but right now we can tell you which Forum voter will win it! So who gets the best Task/To Do App on the iPhone?

coreymol!

Congratulations! We’ll contact you with details on how to claim your prize.

And for everyone else, you’ll still have a chance to win the Task/To Do App by commenting on the blog post tomorrow, and come Thursday, we’ll post our next poll, and another Forum member will have a chance to vote for — and win — another great App!

(Full contest details can be found here!)

Congratulations again, coreymol, and everyone else — get ready, you could be next!

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TiPb AT WORK Contest: Week 2 Update + Forum Winner!

It’s that time of the week where we bring some of the discussions from the forums to the main page.

Big reminder to everyone, the voting for the latest TiPb AT WORK Contest ends tomorrow! This weeks contest, to do/task apps! Time is short so go get your vote on now!

Are you one of those people who is all about security? Well we want to know how many of you actually use the passcode lock on your iPhones? Chime in on his thread! I recently switched from MobileMe to a Exchange account and was personally interested in the following thread. Pascalcheck had a good question regarding Exchange with his contacts and calendar events. Rene was super quick to jump in and help out!.

A lot has been said about jailbreaking lately, and a lot of questions are being asked… so if you have questions and need answers please check out the following two forums – Jailbreak Central (for anything related to jailbreaking) and iPhone Jailbreak Apps.

As always you need to register to join our growing community! Register here to get in on the action, only takes a quick minute!

See you on the forums!

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Today on the Forums: TiPb At Work Week 2, Passcode Lock?