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iPhone 4 Cases

June 17th, 2010

Belkin launches new stylish cases for the iPhone 4 that make it easier to access and use your iPhone no matter how you carry it. Since the iPhone owner is constantly on the go from place to place and likes to stay always connected, Belkin has designed cases that not only complement this mobile lifestyle, but also cater to the different ways an iPhone is carried. We’ve identified five main ways people carry their iPhone: in a pocket, in the hand, in a bag, on themselves, and while being active.

For those carrying their iPhone in their pocket, Belkin’s slim cases are easy to grip, they slide in and out of a pocket smoothly, and they provide impact protection from everyday drops. For those who keep their iPhone in hand at all times, they will appreciate our line of cases that are comfortable to hold, shock-absorbing, and easy to grip. Belkin has also created cases that make your iPhone easy to find within the interiors of a travel bag or purse and protect it against constant contact with other items.

Belkin recognizes that people typically either carry their iPhone or they wear it. To accommodate either person, Belkin offers cases that range from armbands to belt buckles, making the iPhone easy to access for intermittent use.

AVAILABILITY

Cases in select styles will be available starting late June 2010 in North America and parts of Europe

Other styles will continuously be made available for purchase throughout 2010

Grip Cases
Grip cases protect your iPhone and come in a variety of textured designs while adding style, color, and gripability. Grip cases’ form-fitting design lets your iPhone charge while still in the case. These cases are great for those carrying their iPhone in their palm and using it to video chat and play games.

Grip Ergo (F8Z626tt) – $24.99

  • Ergonomic design lets you text, game, and surf the Web comfortably
  • Colors: Black Pearl, Clear

Grip Ergo with Strap (F8Z624tt) – $24.99

  • Ergonomic case design and removable hand strap provide a secure way to hold your iPhone
  • Colors: Vivid Blue, Black, Clear

Grip Groove Duo (F8Z625tt2) – $24.99

  • Adds texture to your iPhone to increase gripability
  • Colors: Black/Clear, Royal Purple/Vivid Blue

Grip Graphix (F8Z627tt) – $24.99

  • Features designs that make it easy to grip your iPhone
  • Colors: Vivid Blue/Clear, Royal Purple/Clear, Black Pearl/Clear

Grip Vue (F8Z642tt) – $24.99

  • Designed to increase gripability with a sleek, high-gloss finish
  • Colors: Clear, Vivid Blue, Royal Purple, Black Pearl

Grip Edge (F8Z639tt) – $29.99

  • Features a unique combination of grip and style
  • Colors: Black Pearl (Carbon), White Pearl, Toffee

Shield Cases
Shield cases protect your iPhone while providing increased shock absorption and impact resistance. These sleek cases add no extra bulk and offer maximum protection while allowing full access to connector, buttons, and iPhone screen. Shield cases work well for pocket carriers.

Shield Eclipse (F8Z621tt) – $29.99

  • Provides a firm grip in your hand
  • Easily slides in and out of your pocket
  • Colors: Vivid Blue, Black Pearl, White Pearl, Royal Purple

Shield Fusion (F8Z637tt) – $29.99

  • Provides improved grip while in your hand
  • Slides easily in and out of your pocket
  • Colors: Black Pearl, Royal Purple

Shield Shock (F8Z640tt) – $29.99

  • Features a lightweight, impact-resistant exoskeleton and a shock-absorbing interior lining for maximum protection
  • Provides a firm grip in your hand
  • Colors: Black Carbon/Royal Purple and Vivid Blue, Black Carbon/Translucent White and Translucent Black

Shield Micra (F8Z623tt) – $24.99

  • Features sleek design for protection without bulk
  • Colors: Black/Translucent White and Translucent Black, Black/Vivid Blue and Royal Purple

Verve Cases
These fashion-inspired leather cases protect your iPhone from everyday scratches and scuffs. Tailored to be slim and form-fitting, they also provide easier and more sensitive access to the home key.

Verve Cinema (F8Z636tt) – $29.99

  • Features kickstand to view media content comfortably

Verve Sleeve with Clip (F8Z612tt) – $29.99

  • Clips onto a belt—ideal for those who like to keep their iPhone on their body at all times

Verve Folio (F8Z609tt) – $29.99

  • Features a cover that folds to protect the screen and a soft inner

Fit Armbands
Fit armbands are designed for the active user. Made with breathable and hand-washable fabric, these cases are easy to put on and remove, and flex with you as you move about your workout.

ProFit (F8Z644tt) – $39.99

  • Ultra-thin, athletic armband slides on easily for a comfortable fit
  • Patent-pending clip system provides easy on/off access
  • Made with special lightweight, water-wicking material to improve breathability

OneFit (F8Z632tt) – $29.99

  • Convenient design fits most daily-use cases to avoid hassle
  • Patent-pending clip system provides easy on/off access
  • Cable capsule stores and manages earphones in convenient rubber dome
  • Features convenient key pocket

DualFit (F8Z610tt) – $24.99

  • Adjustable dual-fit system allows for best fit on any arm―maximizes sizing
  • Key pocket for convenient storage while at the gym or outdoors

FastFit™ (F8Z611tt) – $29.99

  • Patent-pending clip system provides easy on/off access
  • Features removable sleeve for iPhone, low-profile belt clip, and key pocket
  • Cable capsule stores and manages earphones in convenient rubber dome
  • Key pocket for convenient storage

Overlays
Belkin overlays protect your new iPhone screen from everyday scratches.

PrivateScreen™ Overlay (F8Z688tt) – $19.99

  • Provides privacy protection for your iPhone screen

MatteScreen™ Overlay – 3-Pack (F8Z710tt) – $14.99

  • Features glare-reducing protection for your iPhone screen

ClearScree™ Overlay – 3-Pack (F8Z678t) – $14.99

  • Provides a clear protective shield for your iPhone screen

To see the full range of new cases, visit http://www.belkin.com/iPhone/

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Smaller, brighter, longer-lasting iPhone 4 unveiled

June 8th, 2010

At the company’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the new iPhone 4. Jobs said the fourth generation of iPhone has over one hundred new features including a higher resolution display, a 5 megapixel camera with LED flash, HD Video recording, Apple’s A4 processor and longer battery life.

Although packed with more features such as Retina display with 960 x 640 pixel resolution and a second microphone (for noise cancellation), the redesigned iPhone is 24% thinner – 9.3 millimeters – than the iPhone 3GS leading to Apple’s claim that it is the “thinnest smart phone on the planet.”

Perhaps the two most notable new features of the new iPhone are more power and more talk time. The new A4 processor, the same one found in the iPad, gives the iPhone 4 more computing power and according to Apple, an improved battery delivers up to seven hours of talk time on 3G networks, up to 10 hours of web browsing on Wi-Fi and up to six hours on 3G, and up to 10 hours of video playback and up to 40 hours of audio playback.

The iPhone 4 will arrive with an new operating system, iOS 4 whose new features include Multitasking, Folders, enhanced Mail and more Enterprise support. Multitasking, allows users to switch between any of their apps, while folders will allow iPhone owner to organize their apps into collections by dragging one app on top of another. A folder is automatically created and named based on the category of apps selected. Users can change the name of any folder at any time.

The iPhone 4 will come in either black or white in 16GB and 32GB for $199 and $299 respectively. The device will be available in the US, France, Germany, Japan and the UK on June 24. Canada, along with seventeen other countries will have to wait until the end of July for their iPhone. The worldwide roll-out to 88 more countries will happen at the end of September.

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iPad Tablet First Impressions

January 28th, 2010

After months of rumors and speculation, Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs unveiled on Wednesday a tablet computer called the iPad that will start at $499 and go on sale in 60 days. The iPad — a play on the name of Apple’s market-dominating iPod line of media players — will connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, or buyers can wait 30 more days and get more expensive models that will work over AT&T’s data network.

Still looking thin after a liver transplant last year, Jobs was energetic but spoke in a tired-sounding voice to a packed theater filled with journalists and tech bloggers at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts.
Using words like “magical” and “revolutionary,” Jobs pitched the 10-inch, 1.5-pound, half-inch thick iPad as new category of device between a smartphone and a notebook computer. The iPad looks and behaves very much like an iPhone on steroids and will run all 140,000 apps available for Apple’s best-selling smartphone.

“Do we have what it takes to establish a third category of products?” Jobs asked toward the end of the presentation. “We think we’ve got the goods.”

Those “goods” include:
• A 9.7-inch touchscreen that is extremely bright and sharp. It uses a screen technology, called IPS, that’s high quality but is relatively cheap to build.
• Apple is using its own 1-gigahertz processor to power the iPad. The company bought a chip design firm, PA Semi, in 2008, and this is the first processor resulting from that acquisition to be used in an Apple product.
• Buyers will have a choice of models with 16, 32 and 64 gigabytes of flash memory, for $499, $599 and $699, respectively. The versions with 3G network capabilities will cost $130 more each, so the most expensive model will be $829.
• AT&T will offer two data plans for them. A 250-megabyte-per-month plan is $14.99; an unlimited plan is $29.99. Typically, data-only 3G plans for computers run at $60 a month for unlimited service.
• A new e-book reading application, iBooks, takes direct aim at the business now dominated by Amazon.com’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader. Jobs said Apple’s effort is “standing on the shoulders” of Amazon’s Kindle. iPad owners will be able to buy books and download them wirelessly into the device from Apple’s new iBookstore.
• A full-size, onscreen virtual keyboard lets users type just as they would on a traditional notebook or smaller netbook. An optional keyboard dock is available, and the iPad will work with the wireless Bluetooth keyboard Apple already sells.
• While all iPhone and iPod Touch apps will run on the iPad, they’ll do so in a small window. Users can tap a button and expand them to full-screen. Apple released a new version of its software developers kit Wednesday so apps could be revised for the iPad.

The launch drew mixed reaction from many of the tech journalists, analysts and bloggers attending. Some expressed disappointment that the device didn’t have all the features that had been mentioned in the frenzied, speculative atmosphere leading up to Wednesday’s unveiling. For example, the influential tech blog Gizmodo topped its site with a graphic showing two thumbs down over an iPad and the words “NO THANKS.”

But Andy Ihnatko, computer columnist at the Chicago Sun-Times and the author of many books about Apple’s products, said the company made a smart move by building on the strength of the iPhone. “Apple’s strategy was, ‘We got it right with the iPhone,’ ” Ihnatko said. “We don’t need to build something completely new.”

He also praised the pricing, saying it was a “knockout.” Many rumors had put the price at around $1,000, a fact that Jobs mocked during his presentation.

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