Dear readers, this is a huge day for us. We from luxiPhone (vitovox & Ka) have launched a unique product for the iPhone.The ViKaSkins are skins that are completely customisable up to the unit by the end-user (that would be you). Yes, if you’d like to have your baby/girlfriend/yacht/logo on your iPhone, then upload your image and ViKaSkins (distributed under licence by Foto.lu S.a.) will produce them for you. Make your iPhone unique.
This is a 100% luxembourgish production and we are proud to say that we managed to beat international production quality standards. The skins are durable, scratch resistant, very thin, no bulk, colors are vibrant and waterproof.
The website is online now at www.vikaskins.lu
This is not for the faint of heart. iWood carves wood into cases for the iPhone. Expect your case to take 4 weeks before being ready. All this handcraft has a price ranging from 80€ to 140€ (glup). You can even engrave a monogram, message or your logo into the case. It is a steep price but at least you get free shipping and the engraving is free as well (not sure if I should say “thank you”).
I ordered the highend Cobra in Wengé/Maple for 140€. It’s probably the only case where you care more about the case then the phone itself in case of a drop… So now I just need to find a silicon case big enough to put over the iWood.
I own a Mophie JuicePack Air, it’s a great case that ads some bulk but doubles my battery-lifetime. That’s a constraint I’m willing to deal with. Actually, many people saw my iPhone + Juice Pack and didn’t even notice it was an external battery pack. Anyway now that I’m on a holiday the case has become quite useful since I spend my day walking around the island without having any plug available during the day.
The downside, the added bulk makes my iPhone fat….too fat to fit in a holster of some kind.
Mophie has developed a set of one size fits all leather holsters for the Mophie Juice Packs. You can fit the whole juice pack (iPhone, too) into the holster and carry the whole package around on your belt. There are three different types: the 5000 is a square holster that doesn’t show the screen, the 5500 shows the screen, and the 6000 is a more rounded version of the 5500. I’m not really sure why the model names are numbers, but I’m sure avid Mophie users will be happy for the extra options.
You can pre-order your holster for $30 at Mophie.com.
The comment I get from a large part of the people that still didn’t fall for the iPhone (and Apple in general) is about the virtual keyboard of the iPhone and sending texts. A comment from the ones to be considered “heavy texters”. I’m talking about that special breed that is able to send around 500-600 SMS a day. They probably have 30 fingers, don’t know, still, they’re entire life is like a looong SMS (hyper concatenated SMS).
As I was saying before, one of the comment I get a lot is:”Yeah, the iPhone is great but I won’t be able to get used to the virtual keyboard… That’s a <No, no> for me”.
Personally had several phones before the iPhone and ranged from a simple Ericsson GH788e (my first and the most awesome non PDA mobile ever made!) to some Compaqs PDAs, then HP, then Nokia with Symbian, couple of Blackberrys… And then the iPhone. What I loved of the Blackberry was also the fact of having a full keyboard. I use a computer most of the day. I’m using to type on a keyboard. Coudn’t imagine doing development (coding, programming) with T9 on a numeric pad. Could you imagine doing the same or using Excel with predictive T9 text? Naa. So when I switched to the Blackberry… I enjoyed every part of it (push email, etc) and the full keybodard. Ok, smaller than my computer’s one, but still a full keyboard and sending emails or texts was a pleasure (I’m more an “email guy” than “text guy”).
The day I switched to the iPhone… I must admit it took me some time to get used to the virtual keyboard. I don’t have huge fingers but managed anyway to type several times the wrong key and so son. After a while, and especially since we have the keyboard also in landscape mode, I’m enjoying it more. I can understand thus that some people still won’t take the plunge because of the lack of a physical keyboard. There are some people willing to send an sms without checking the screen. With a touchscreen that is a bit difficult.
My friend Vitovox sent me today a link to another blog (Engadget) which was writing about a “true innovation”. A physical keyboard for the iPhone. No, not a piece of “Frankensteinesque” DIY like the video below
but a real accessory to attach to your iPhone. It’s called the iTwinge.
Must be that somebody got the idea to make something like a mix of a case and an accessory… It’s still unclear whether this keyboard is meant to connect to the iPhone dock connector or if it’s just a way to press on the screen via some rubber letters covering the virtual keyboard, the only thing we know now is that it retails at 30$+shipping and is available for preorder. Shipping expected for November.
Do you think this will make more people to come to the iPhone world?
We got news of website USBFever selling a multipurpose accessory, being at the same time case, external battery (1900mAh) and… Two sim adapter.
You remember the old trick of having a menu in the phone to be able to switch from one sim card to the other? Well, now, with this case, you’ll be able to do it on your iPhone. They claim the external battery would allow to stay “safe” for some days before having to recharge your iPhone (wouldn’t that be a dream?). It sells for 59.99$
In case somebody goes for it, don’t forget to drop us a line!
(Thanks to Christophe for the hint! Via iGeneration.fr)
So you bought that marvelous case, all leather and diamonds… To discover that your iPhone doesn’t fit in the dock anymore?
Well, this happened to me when I decided to switch from one of the marvelous Gelaskins (in the store btw) to the precious and super resistant ION-Carbon case. This case is awesome (got the black one) but I was soon fed up of having to take my phone out of it every night going to bed (no, I don’t sleep with my iPhone, I put it to charge on its dock, next to my bed).
Today decided to google for some dock-friendly cases… There is one that I found but didn’t like it, so continued my search, till I found:
How clever is this? Nice! With this little connector I don’t have to remove the phone from the dock anymore. Great!
Well, something that isn’t that great on the other hand… Is that 1) The two metal legs in the picture don’t fit all the docks and sometimes need to be removed. 2) The price: 28.95Euros + shipping!!!
Well here is a protection for people who don’t like to bulk-up their iPhone. It’s made of 2 adhesive parts, one of them, the screen protection even reduces the view-angle, protecting you from curious neighbours. Anyway, I like cases this thin (see our shop), though they only protect from scratches and not from shocks, I would not recommend this to clumsy people
buy it from here: www.maisondugsm.com
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