The folks out at Proporta sent out their Impact Protective Crystal Back Shell for me to review for you, and if you’re still having troubles with the fallout from Antennagate, well, here’s a direction for you to look.
Basically, the Impact Protective Crystal Back Shell is a hard shell case geared almost exclusively for your iPhone 4. I tried my iPod Touch in there and it’s not a very good fit, but anyway. It’s a hard shell that’ll likely clear up the whole touch of death issue that Apple was having with the iPhone, allowing you to not only protect the rear of the phone from scratching, but also giving you access to the phone’s touchscreen and its relevant side ports and rear camera aperture.
I can attest to the case’s resilience–it survived several hard contacts with a tabletop–and it’d likely do about as well protecting your iPhone unless it happened to land touchscreen down. Now, it is just an iPhone case, and you’ll pretty much only be able to use it with your iPhone. That’s not so much of a much, in all honesty, because it does do its job and pretty well. But it’s only a case, and just for the iPhone.
That actually doesn’t matter so much, especially when you consider that the case itself sells for $21.95. It’ll serve a useful purpose and do it well. Is it a good value? That’s your call. But in this case, I’d say it’s too much cash for too little case.
The Good
Resilient
Helps protect against the antenna failure
The Bad
Limited utility
Only useful with iPhone 4
Score 6 / 10
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 While we cover plenty of games here at 148Apps, they’re all on the iOS side of things. But especially during this time of year, there’s definitely an interest in games from the traditional gaming systems, both handheld and portable. Whether we’re just shopping for gifts for friends and family, or trying to kill time at GameStop while others shop in far less interesting stores, the ‘traditional’ game has yet to go away. The problem is that just looking at the boxes of these game doesn’t exactly tell you everything; tiny screens and admittedly biased descriptions don’t tell you much about games. Sometimes there’s a need for more info. That’s where Cedemo steps in.
Cedemo lets you look up a game and instantly get a chance to see it in action, as video starts playing when you look up a title, allowing you to get a feel for a game that boxart alone cannot provide. It certainly makes window shopping for games far more visual than static images provide. So how do you look up the info on these games? Well, you can check out the top 10, “Hot”, and “Oldies” lists in the app, or you can manually search for titles. However, there’s one other way to look up titles – you can scan the game’s UPC on camera-enabled devices to instantly watch video of the game as soon as the barcode is recognized. If you have trouble scanning barcodes, whether you have a device without an auto-focus camera or just can’t keep your arm from shaking your device to get a lock on the barcode, you can just manually key in the UPC.
The app is currently available for free on the App Store, and works on all iOS devices (with barcode scanning disabled on non-camera devices, and the app does not run in iPad native mode), and there is supposedly a version for Android available as well, but it is not currently available on the Android Marketplace. The only feature in the app besides video playback is the ability to post the games you find with Cedemo to Facebook; the ability to see reviews of games could be another huge help for game shoppers this holiday season. For now, this could be a useful app for those of us stuck looking through the game shelves while out shopping in the next month.
FREE!
iPhone App – Designed for the iPhone, compatible with the iPad
Released: 2010-11-22 :: Category: Entertainment
[ Cedemo Brings Barcode Scanning to Video Game Shoppers is a post from 148Apps ]
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Microsoft has been successful in the software world ever since their creation most notable with the uprising of Windows; their desktop operating system. On the other hand, when it comes to the mobile world things haven’t been such an easy ride as Windows Mobile has been regarded as one of the most troublesome mobile platforms.
However, with the release of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft is looking to redeem themselves with a new mobile platform designed from the ground up to compete with behemoths like Android and iOS. Due to the fact that WP7 is quite new, it still has a lot of catching up to do if it ever wants to stand a chance in this saturated market.
In fact, it seems that it has so much catching up to do that Android is currently beating Windows Phone 7 15:1 in terms of sales. While this will most likely get smaller as time goes on, Android is growing at an exponential rate so Microsoft surely has their work cut out for them.
via androidspin
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Apple’s iPad may be the hottest tablet on the market but that doesn’t mean that’s going to make it any cheaper. In fact, starting at $499, the iPad is more expensive than many full fledged laptop computers. Luckily, some companies have managed to cut a deal here and there and offer the iPad for less than its MSRP.
One such company by the name of Evolyte has managed to put the 32GB WiFi iPad up for $100 off its MSRP bringing the price tag down for $499. If you’re looking to get down on this deal, make note that it’s for a limited time only and at the time of the posting 12/50 iPads have sold out.
On another note, if you’re not familiar with Evolyte they are described as a cross between Groupon and woot.com. If you’ve got the time you should definitely check them out as they are sure to have some great deals leading into this holiday season.
via evolyte
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