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Aint no Saint creating custom painted battery covers for the Nokia Lumia 710

February 7, 2012 | By Surur

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Swappable back covers are pretty iconic Nokia, so it pretty appropriate that Nokia should be making available custom painted covers for the Nokia Lumia 710.

Nokia has arranged with AintnoSaints to create custom painted covers. They will be offering one off covers, their own tattoo inspired designs and also small corporate branded runs of covers.

The covers will be available in their online shop, where they will be featured heavily.

HTC releases new HTC Titan car cradle with “car panel” app

January 26, 2012 | By Surur

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HTC has just released a new car cradle for the HTC Titan. The accessory features its own charging port to help manage the wires in the car, and features the stylish ball and joint design (pity about that awful plastic holder however).

More interesting however is that inserting your Titan into the cradle will activate both Bluetooth and the “car panel”.

We assume the car panel is a similar app to the bedside cradle app, which may include easily fingerable launchers to car navigation apps and other information.

It will cost a pricy £49.99 ( $79) to find out exactly what the car panel does, but when you do please let us know.

Find the HTC Titan Car Upgrade Kit CU S600 in the HTC Accessory store here.

Via WPCentral.com

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Monster also attending Nokia’s CES press conference to announce “exciting new products”

December 30, 2011 | By Surur

Monster have posted the above message on their Facebook page, indicating that they will join Nokia at CES on the 9th January to share “exciting new products”

The products, from Monster at least, are not likely to be too mysterious, likely being Nokia’s Monster-branded headphones, but providing branded accessories to go with their flagship US handsets will provide a better impression of the Nokia ecosystem than just the handset itself.

Via MonWindowsPhone.com

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Official Nokia Lumia 800 hand case and carry case released

December 6, 2011 | By Surur

Nokia has unveiled and placed on sale an official hard case and also a carry case for the Nokia Lumia 800.

The accessories is available at Nokia’s Flagship store in Hong Kong and costs HK$198 (about $24.50).

The accessories come in a variety of bold colours, meaning the already colourful Nokia Lumia 800 can be brightened up even more.

Via welovewp.hk

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Nokia to release audio accessories by Monster

October 5, 2011 | By Surur

Pocketnow have managed to get their hands on some promotional material from Nokia showing their new Monster-branded headphones, the Nokia Purity HD Stereo Headsets.

A particularly interesting element to this is that HTC recently purchased a controlling stake in Beats by Dr Dre, who’s kit are also ODMed by Monster Cable. The implication would be that the audio quality would be as good as Beats headsets, but without the brand name or paying $300 million.

The whole issue should be clarified at Nokia World, coming up on the 26th October.

Nokia Sea Ray silicone cases show up in Nokia N9 video

September 15, 2011 | By Surur

These days you never know what people will notice in an even seemingly innocuous video.

In a video touting the design of the Nokia N9 3 silicone cases for the Nokia Sea Ray also made a cameo appearance, differentiated from those for the N9 by the position of the flash and the presence of a camera button hole.

Now if the handset would only make a surprise appearance in stores also…

See the video after the break.

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A look at HTC’s new Dock interface

September 2, 2011 | By Surur

The HTC Titan and HTC Radar will have a Dock accessory available, designed to be used by the bedside for charging the phone and to allow the phone to be used as an alarm clock.

WPCentral managed to grab a screen shot of the app in action, here composited on the picture of the dock accessory by Engadget.

The app will show the date, current weather, HTC multimedia apps, including their movie service and HTC Photo Frame for a picture slide show, and also allow music to be played.

It is not yet known if the app will start automatically when the phone us plugged in, but the Engadget picture suggests not.

Update: Pocket-Lint also captured the phone in its dock and was able to confirm, in their preview of the Radar, that the Dock interface will indeed start up automatically.

Read their full first look at the handset here.

Thanks Ricardo for this picture of the HTC Titan dock via thisismynext.com.

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HTC Titan and Radar will have Dock Accessories

September 1, 2011 | By Surur

Engadget revealed at their hands-on that HTC’s new devices will have docks available as optional accessories, allowing the devices to charge overnight and be used as alarm clocks.

Almost makes one wish Windows Phone 7 hand a bit better landscape support…

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JOYSTICK-IT for iPhone will work on Windows Phones also

June 16, 2011 | By Surur

stick From time to time we hear complaints from our gaming readers that Windows Phones need real buttons for games (the most recent being our review of Sonic 4). ThinkGeek has created a solution for the iPad and iPhone which will work for any device with a capacitive screen, and will turn a virtual D-pad into a pretty solid real one pretty quickly.

The solid aluminium joystick with suction cup is removable and repositionable, should work with numerous games and costs $17.99.

Read more about the accessory at Thinkgeek here.

Via Geek.com

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64 GB microSD cards are here–will we benefit?

May 29, 2011 | By Surur

4computex_mircroSDXC_c6_64gb-outline110419 Kingmax has announced their release of the first 64GB microSD cards. The SDXC cards are class 6 and are compatible with the SD 2.0 standard.

Of course Windows Phone has a complicated relationship with memory cards, with most handsets in fact sporting one, but nearly no handset allowing or recommending the user replace or upgrade them.

It does open the door however to the OEM shipping a selection of handsets with higher capacity approved and installed memory, but with 64 GB SD cards retailing between £100 and £300 I would make these devices pretty cost prohibitive.

Likely the main benefit would be for the 64 GB cards to push down the cost of 32 GB ones, and thereby hopefully increase the proportion of handsets shipping with more than the minimum of storage.

Are any of our readers planning to splurge on one of these cards and try it out on your phone? Let us know below.

via MobilityDigest.com

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Mozart TPU Case Review – (No Brand Name)

April 14, 2011 | By wwebob

This is not a very good case, but it’s the only case for Mozart I can find in Taiwan.

If you shop on Amazon, there are a few good cases on Amazon.
ps. Sorry I put Chinese Subtitle.

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Asus Blu-ray player supports Windows Phone 7 browser-based remote control

March 4, 2011 | By Surur

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Interesting news from CBIT in Germany is the new ASUS O!Play BDS-700 Blu-ray player, which features such goodies as DVD upscaling, Blu-ray 3D playback, 7.1-channel surround sound, 802.11n Wi-Fi with DLNA support and video playback from external hard drives.

For us Windows Phone users however more interesting would be that the Blu-ray player supports playback remote control and text entry using the browser in your smartphone, including specifically Windows Phone 7.

Read more about this gadget at CDRlabs.com here.

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Wrapsol: An invisible way to protect your Windows Phone!

January 7, 2011 | By andrewbares

Wrapsol is a clear protective film for your Windows Phone devices, similar to InvisibleShield. Watch our Video Review of the installation of Wrapsol to get an idea of how the product looks/works on a Windows Phone!

If you’re looking to protect your new Windows Phone but still want to let its style show through, a product like Wrapsol may be perfect for you. Wrapsol protects your device from scratches, damage, and other wear and tear. While it may not be as tough as a normal case, Wrapsol is a perfect product for keeping your phone looking pristine.

Applying the Wrapsol protective films to the phone takes some time (prepare to take 20 minutes on this), since you really want to do everything perfectly. They even make how-to-apply video for the HTC HD7 version here, which will really help you with the application process. Our video of the application process should also help give you some tips on applying the protective film. A really helpful tip is to stretch the film while applying it so that it fits around the volume and camera buttons; the product is made to stretch, so make sure you do that!

Once you have Wrapsol applied to your phone, it feels pretty good. The texture on the back actually gives you some extra grip on the phone, but it isn’t anything sticky so that taking the phone out of your pocket would be tricky like some cases can be. The front cover over the screen is still glossy and smooth to the touch, just like your phone’s screen used to be, which is great! You can order a Clean Screen Protector version which would remove the gloss and help avoid fingerprints, but if you like how the screen was stock, you will want to stay with the Ultra Protective or Original Scratch Protection versions.

In about a month, we will do a follow-up review on the Wrapsol product, going into depth about how the product actually stands up against scratches and other damage, so check back for that! If you want to try Wrapsol for yourself, visit their website, and your phone will probably be supported.

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