Yeah, pretty easy headline. The game: Toy Bot Diaries. The top prize: 10 grand.

Now what do you have to do? You just have to buy TBD 1,2,3 ($3.99 each) on the iPhone App Store and then find all 75 datapads hidden throughout the three games. Once you’ve got the items collected in each game you’ll have a chance to submit your e-mail to IUGO and that’ll be that. You’ll then have to hold your breath until April 1 when they announce the winners.

Wouldn’t it be terrible if there was no prize? April Fool’s Day!

Bah, I’ll just show you the dates again as per their contest website.

Contest begins: Monday, February 16, 2009 at 12:01am PST
Contest Ends: Monday, March 16, 2009 at 11:59pm PDT
Winners Announced: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at www.iugome.com
*CONTEST OPEN TO US RESIDENTS ONLY*

Get cracking, folks! Those datapads aren’t going to collect themselves

HTC Touch Pro II

One of the things that drives me crazy about the world of mobile computing…and computing in general, is that the latest and greatest always seems to get announced just days after I purchase the previous latest and greatest.  So, here we are, barely a month after I upgraded to the Touch Pro, and already HTC has announced an upgrade to the Touch Pro II.  Likewise, you Diamond owners can look forward to the Diamond II upgrade.  both include Windows Mobile 6.1, with a free upgrade to Windows Mobile 6.5.  And I have to admit, these are some pretty slick looking phones.  Hit the jump for the press release, details, and plenty of pictures.

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Hot on the heels of my look at the best and worst sounding portable media players, let’s take a quick look at the i.Sound portable speakers.  I am always interested in new ways to enjoy my music.  One of the frustrations I have with many portable speakers, however, is the blatantly iPod-centric design.  They typically feature an iPod connection which is stylishly designed into the speaker, making the iPod and speaker look like each is a natural extension of the other.  But what if you do not have an iPod?  Yesterday, I found the iPod Nano to be only the third best sounding media player, behind the Zune and Sony Walkman.  So, what if you have one of them?  Well, if you are using many speakers, then you can look on the back of the speaker for what I call the “all-purpose, generic media player jack.”  This allows you to connect any media player to the back of the speaker, leaving it connected with a cable which will trail off the back of the speaker like a tail.  Functional…but not particularly stylish or even nice looking. 

Which brings me to the i.Sound Ice speakers.  Sure, like most speakers, they are marketed toward the iPod, but in the end, they work just as well and look just the same, regardless of whether you are using an iPod, Zune, or any other media player.  So, hit the jump, and we’ll take a closer look and listen.

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The folks over at www.learnbemobile.com have posted a fantastic video of Spb Software House’s presentation of Mobile Shell 3 from today’s session of the Mobile World Congress.  Take a look and prepare to be dazzled.  Upgrades abound.

Microsoft made a number of big announcements today at Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, none of which were particularly unexpected.  In addition to the preview of Windows Mobile 6.5 which we showed your earlier, they also announced today that the name of your phone will be officially changing to Windows Phone.  They further announced two new services for Windows Phone 6.5: My Phone and Recite.  Hit the jump for what few details we have.

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