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News has emerged from China that prolific tablet manufacturer Havnon has just entered a deal with software giant Microsoft. What they intend to do together is of course quite obvious — make space for MSFT in the fast thickening tablet soup that is the consumer tech industry right now.

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The talks of a Blackberry tablet coming from RIM have been roaming around the industry for quite some time now. But no one has much of an idea about what it is called. But now, new rumors suggest that Blackberry might have a name as flinch-worthy as — Blackpad! Yes, the rumors suggest that RIM will actually go forward with this gem of a name. Actually, this name has already been mentioned in this context. But at that point, everyone assumed that this was suggest an internal code name for the device. Not the name it will be branded under.

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Accessories profit a lot from the popularity of Apple’s iPhone. Especially cases, sleeves and other protective measures are thought after by iPhone users to protect the phone from damages.

We have collected a wide variety of designs, iPhone cases and sleeves and put all of them in one big image gallery on this page.

And who knows, maybe you find something that you like that much that you have to buy it, for your iPhone.

Let us know in the comments.

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Apple will later this week be giving away a free iPhone 4 case to all users who want one to fix antenna issues. They need a lot of cases as approximately 1 million iPhones are being sold around the world next week, so they are working on deals with other case manufacturers to offers iPhone 4 users a choice of iPhone 4 cases as they won’t be able to produce enough iPhone bumpers to meet the demand.

I know it’s unlikely, but here are some super cool sexy iPhone 4 cases that I hope iPhone include in the free choices later this week.

Vapor 4 – $79.95-$99

The Vapor is CNC machined from a solid block of aircraft grade aluminum – only 25 grams. A CNC on/off button is designed into the case to complete the clean lines.  Anodized to create a hard protective coating in brilliant colors. Continue reading “iPhone 4 Cases I Hope Apple Give Away For Free” »

During the Q&A session at the special Apple press conference that was held to talk about the iPhone 4 antenna issue, Steve Jobs let slip something very interesting. When someone from the said that he cannot replicate the death grip at the conference hall, Steve replied that they had very strong signal there. He then added that they had both AT&T and Verizon cells on the campus. More on the other side.

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Other than the 4G LTE SIM card that I just posed about a while ago, there are other things that are showing signs of the next-generation 4G LTE network being rolled out sometime soon. Multiple news sources have been reporting of Verizon’s computers showing signs of 4G LTE connections. There are also some internal documents that talk about 4G up for viewing. More on the other side.

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Verizon has recently become exceedingly bad at keeping things under a wrap. With the Droid 2 leaking left and right, there’s no doubt that the phone is coming really soon. The Droid 2 has been leaking really badly of late and not it is time for something new — a mobile WiFi hotspot that supports both CDMA and GSM networks. Moreover, there seems to be a 4G LTE SIM card out in the wild. More on the other side.

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Looks like the rumors that were circulating in the market about a more affordable version of the monstrous Gulftowm 32nm-based Core-i7-980x from Intel, were real after all. Even though there hasn’t been an official announcement for the product, The chip is currently shipping from online stores. It is also available for people living in the UK to order but it will depend on whether their local stores have received stocks or not.

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Post the Twitter-based revolution in real-time data mining and serving for trending topics and events, Foursquare is now trying to sell it’s own services as something that shows the trending locations, in real-time. Foursquare co-founder David Crowley gave and exclusive interview to The Telegraph and said that they have approached all players in the search market, including the big three — Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft (Bing!).

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PS3 aficionados everywhere, there’s some bad news for those of you who were looking forward to playing games in glorious stereoscopic 3D-view at 1080p HD. Sony has restricted stereoscopic games from being any higher than 720p. This is to ensure to a higher overhead for processing and to ensure a quality gaming experience for the user.

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