Hard Candy Cases Already Producing Cases for iPod Touch 4G

Hard Candy Cases are on top of making new cases for the new iPod Touch 4G that was just announced today. Hard Candy Cases have released their prototype case even before the new iPod Touch was announced to the public with a spot on design. The new Street Skin is already being mass produced and will be available in three colors starting September 15th, pre-orders are now a go for $29.95. The Street Skin is made from a form-fitting TPU rubber material with a rugged pattern an the outside. 

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Scosche Announces Cases for New iPod Touch 4G & iPod Nano 6G

 

After todays Apple keynote and announcement of all new iPods for 2010, Scosche and other companies quickly race to announce and reveal their case and accessory offerings for the new Apple products. Scosche today announced new cases for the iPod Touch 4G with front and back camera as well as cases for the iPod Nano 6G with touch screen. The SwitchBack case pictured above is a polycarbonate case with interchangeable backs and also a glossy integrated kickstand back plate. The SwitchBack is available in various colors for $34.99 with expected ship date of early October. You can pre-order yours right now on Scosche's site.

The Scosche TightGrip for the new iPod Nano 6G with touch screen is a simple silicone skin that comes in a pack of three for $19.99 and it's also expected to ship early October. Available for pre-order now on Scosche now. 

Scosche also announced many other cases for the new iPod Touch 4G including a hybrid version of the KickBack which features rubber and hard plastic for $29.99, BeefKase polycarbonate case with outer leather and other colors. 

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Verizon's LTE Network Coming Very Soon

 

Engadget has just received some internal documents on Verizon's 4G plans which seem to be the real thing. It mainly states information that we already know life between 5 and 12Mbps download speeds, aircards first before smartphones, and plans to deploy in 30 cities in 2010. However, the documents also say that they're still on track to serve up 100 million connections by the end of the year. Engadget have also receivced some pics of Verizon computers with the LTE SIM cards.

Another thing that the documents claim are that LTE has 30ms of latency! This would mean that the network would be blazing fast. We should also see some LTE tablets in 2011.

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Samsung Epic 4G Announced

 

Sprint and Samsung just announced their latest Android smartphone, the Samsung Epic 4G. This was formerly rumoured to be called the Samsung Galaxy S, the Epic 4G seems to be packed with features. These include:

• 4-inch Super AMOLED display, 
• 1GHz Hummingbird processor,
• 5 megapixel camera with LED flash and 720p video recording, 
• Front-facing VGA camera for video calls
• Accelerometer 
• 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi
• Landscape QWERTY slider keyboard. 
• Samsung's custom version of Android 2.1

This is the second 4G phone on the Sprint network and this joins the EVO 4G as well. The Epic 4G is going to be released in "the coming months."

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T-Mobile Next iPhone Carrier?

Ever since the original iPhone, users have complained about the iPhone being on AT&T's network in the US. Many people where expecting that the "one more thing" on Monday's WWDC keynote was going to be the iPhone on a different carriers, hopefully Verizon. However the "one more thing" was video calling which made a lot Verizon customers who whated the iPhone very disappointed. 

The iPhone 4 only has a GSM 3G radio which rules out Sprint and Verizon as they us CDMA, but what about T-Mobile? Well, the Kaufman Brothers investment analyst Shaw Wu, thinks that the next iPhone carrier in the US will be T-Mobile. Steve Jobs announced on Monday that the iPhone 4 will be capable of Quad-Band HSDPA/HSUPA 7.2Mbs down and 5.8Mbs up 3G speeds. The same as what T-Mobile uses, which could mean the next carrier could be T-Mobile. If you look at the sales data, Android always beats the iPhone when it is not available. But if the iPhone was available on multiple carriers that would dramatically change.

However, most analysts are saying that it would be in Apple's best interest to release the iPhone on the 2 biggest carriers in the US, Verizon and AT&T, rather than the 4th largest T-Mobile and At&T. But T-Mobile does operate around the world and it is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom in Germany and Apple could work out a deal to allow T-Mobile to sell the iPhone worldwide.

So will we ever see a Verizon iPhone? Probably in 2011 when the networks go along the upgrade path to 4G networks, specifically LTE which runs on GSM. In fact Verizon says that later this year it will have a LTE network up and running. Also T-Mobile is going along the LTE road while Sprint is already releasing Wimax 4G.

So what do you think? Will Verizon ever get the iPhone and will T-Mobile be the next US iPhone Carrier?

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