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- The Scosche switchBACK Surge G4 Is An iPhone 4 Battery Case And Kickstand In One
- Motorola Droid X2 Press Shots Leak, To Be Known As “Droid X2“
- T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Already Rooted
- Sprint To Drop Instant Rebates, Return To Mail-In Rebates Next Month?
- AT&T Admits They Weren’t Ready For The iPhone
| The Scosche switchBACK Surge G4 Is An iPhone 4 Battery Case And Kickstand In One Posted: 22 Apr 2011 12:04 PM PDT
With the just announced switchBACK Surge G4 case, Scosche is lookin’ to cover both bases at once. On one front, it’s an 1800mAh external battery that should add another 9-12 hours of use to your iPhone. On the other, it’s a swing-out kickstand to keep your iPhone held up without tying up your hands. As an added bonus, it’ll also ensure that your iPhone can double as a paperweight or a small brick if the need arises. Look for it to hit the shelves today with an MSRP of $79.99, which seems to be something of a sweet spot for these higher-capacity cases.
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| Motorola Droid X2 Press Shots Leak, To Be Known As “Droid X2“ Posted: 22 Apr 2011 11:39 AM PDT
At this point, the Droid X2 is about as secret as the fact that beef jerky makes fantastic road trip food. We knew it was going to look almost exactly like its predecessor, the Droid X, all the way back in January. By March, we had photographic evidence — and by last week, we had video. Still, just because we know just about everything there is to know about a handset doesn’t mean we can’t nerd out a bit when the official stuff starts leaking. And the first official VZW materials to hit the leak circuits? The press photos, as acquired by PocketNow. These shots primarily just confirm what we already knew (the oh-so-subtle color change from “black” to “really, really dark grey”, and the removal of the dedicated camera button), with one tiny tweak: officially, the name isn’t the Droid X2 — it’s the Droid X2, as in “X to the power of two” or “X squared”. Screw that, I’m still calling it the X2.
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| T-Mobile Sidekick 4G Already Rooted Posted: 22 Apr 2011 11:20 AM PDT
The T-Mobile Sidekick 4G hasn’t even been on the market for a full 2 days, yet the ever-resourceful community over at XDA-Dev has already hacked it to pieces. You’ll need to download some drivers from Samsung, run the “Rage Against The Cage” hack (heads up: some virus detectors pick this up as a virus, as it technically IS a packaged Linux exploit — that’s what makes it work. Make sure you’re getting it from a legit source), and then throw down a heaping helping of terminal commands. When you’re done, though, you’ll be roaming around in Android territory with nary a restriction. You can find the full guide right here. [Thanks Ken!]
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| Sprint To Drop Instant Rebates, Return To Mail-In Rebates Next Month? Posted: 22 Apr 2011 10:54 AM PDT
Nooooo! With Verizon and Sprint both dropping mail-in rebates in favor of oh-so-much-less-painful instant rebates, we were starting to hope this was becoming an industry standard. Alas, it looks like Sprint might be calling it quits.
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| AT&T Admits They Weren’t Ready For The iPhone Posted: 22 Apr 2011 09:05 AM PDT
AT&T’s FCC filing for their planned T-Mo merger brings up a few interesting points about AT&T’s network. To wit:
This also explains why AT&T wants T-Mobile so that they can grab more bandwidth to pump out more data. It’s not quite a merger of equals, then, but more of a symbiotic parasitic relationship, like one of those crustaceans that eat a fish’s tongue and becomes a tongue replacement. via BusinessInsider via Geek.com
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When it comes to iPhone cases with special tricks up their sleeves (that is, the ones that do more than just protect your handset from the wilds), you usually get one or the other: an external battery, or some sort of clever kickstand system built to prop the iPhone up for movie watchin’.
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