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How Did AT&T Hold Up at CES 2010? Root Wireless (and TiPb) Report!

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One of the more interesting conversations the Smartphone Experts team had at CES 2010 was with Root Wireless, who monitors the performance of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile in the US. Their overall message is that there’s no single best carrier, because it varies so much from place to place, but they did try to [...]

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Cocoon Grid-It and Fastback — TiPb @ CES 2010

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At CES 2010, Cocoon Innovations went from dipping a toe into iPhone waters with their new, windowed, messenger-style netbook bag to diving straight in with the secret-in-the-turtleshell Fastback cases.

The netbook case has a transparent pocket to showoff your iPhone or iPod touch, and inside features their really interesting looking Grid-It organizer, which can also safely [...]

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Case-Mate Go Bare for iPhone — TiPb @ CES 2010

Case-Mate Go Bare for iPhone

After being Barely There last year, at CES 2010 TiPb wanted to know how much slimmer Case-Mate could go — turns out they could go Bare. You read that right, one of the big products on display for Case-Mate in 2010 was their entry into the iPhone skin market, and the twist is their version [...]

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ZAGGbox, ZAGGsparq, App Space — TiPb @ CES 2010

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ZAGG, the makers of Invisible Shield, have diversified in a big way with their ZAGGbox video recorder, ZAGGsparq battery charger, and AppSpace service.

ZAGGbox pulls in all your analog video (including HD via component), gives you fast switching via a unified remote, and renders iPhone-compatible video you can send right to your device.

ZAGGsparq is a massive [...]

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iType Physical Keyboard for iPhone Gets the Ultimate Test — TiPb @ CES 2010

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Ion’s iType is a full sized — full. sized. — keyboard for the iPhone or iPod touch that comes bundled with an App Store app for easy text input. Output is another story — given the iPhone’s app sandboxing, you have to email or copy and paste the text into other apps. Ion is open [...]

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Motorola Endeavor HX1 Bone-conduction Bluetooth Headset Hands-on — TiPb @ CES 2010 [Updated, Sponsored-ish]

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The Motorola Endeavor HX1 is the latest salvo in the Bluetooth noise-reduction arms race, and it takes it to another level — reading the bone vibrations in your inner ear and digitally converting those vibrations into recognizable speech. That’s right, when regular microphones fail, when even noise-reduction won’t work, Motorola is actually turning off the [...]

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Blue Microphone Mikey for iPhone 3G/3GS Hands-on — TiPb @ CES 2010

Blue Mikey for iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS

As iPhone Live! regulars know, I use a Blue Microphone Snowball for our podcast, so when they announced their 2nd generation, iPhone 3G/iPhone 3GS compatible Mikey, I was gravitationally pulled towards their booth for a quick look.

It’s small, it plugs into the iPhone dock, and they also offer a free Blue Fire field-recorder app [...]

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Case-Mate iMakeMyCase iPhone Case Customizations — TiPb @ CES 2010

Case-Mate iMakeMyCase for iPhone

With iMakeMyCase, Case-Mate is taking their popular case model and not only offering you hot, artist-based designs, but breaking apart those designs to their core elements and letting you customize and collage them to create your own unique variation.

There are lots of on-line tools provided, included spays, mirror effects, and if you’re not feeling particularly [...]

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CES Day 01 Gallery — iPhone Accessories at iLounge Pavilion

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The iPhone has made it’s first big, official splash at CES 2010, courtesy of the iLounge Pavilion, set up by the fine folks at iLounge. I’ve only spent half a day walking around so far, but you can’t throw an iPhone without hitting a major player at a big booth showing off some amazing new [...]

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Ford Sync at CES 2010 — Very Slick, but iPhone Offers Only Partial Support

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Microsoft and Ford were showing off the third version of Ford Sync at CES, and Casey and Phil from Android Central and I jumped in and got a demo. The good news is that it works great. It plays your music, makes your phone calls, and alert the authorities in case of accident, and more…

The [...]

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