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iControlPad – Clamp Your Smartfone into Gaming Submission

Wouldn’t it be swell if you could have some real controls while playing with your Smartfone? It just so happens… Welcome iControlPad, a neat little gaming pad that “clamps” onto your iPhone or just about any Smartfone

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Casing Verizon iPhone Cases

Before you grab that a new case for your Verizon iPhone, makes sure it fits-not all cases made for the original AT&T iPhone 4 will fit the Verizon model.

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Gramophone Style Comes to iPhone, with ArkCanary II [IPhone]

The ArkCanary II is an analog acoustic iPhone speaker, designed rather like an updated antique gramophone. The maker plans to get it to retail for around $13 if it gets enough funding via Kickstarter —and is so hopeful of doing so with the help of a “manufacturer in Korea” there’s already a pre-order page up and running. [ Ark via Design Boom ] More

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Burn The Rope Burns Brighter With Retina Display Support [Apps]

iPhone game Burn The Rope was December 29′s App of the Day . It’s now marginally better, thanks to an update that adds Retina Display support and redesigns most of the visuals. And there are 16 new levels.

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Google Translate for iPhone hits the App Store

iPhone users have been able to use a mobile-optimized HTML5 version of Google Translate for some time now, but they can now finally also get an honest-to-goodness app of their own just like their Android-using friends . That brings with it a number of enhancements over the basic web app, including a speak-to-translate feature with support for 15 languages, the ability to listen to your translations in 23 different languages, and a full-screen mode that lets you show your translated text to others with large, easy-to-read text.

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Google Translate for iPhone hits the App Store

iPhone users have been able to use a mobile-optimized HTML5 version of Google Translate for some time now, but they can now finally also get an honest-to-goodness app of their own just like their Android-using friends . That brings with it a number of enhancements over the basic web app, including a speak-to-translate feature with support for 15 languages, the ability to listen to your translations in 23 different languages, and a full-screen mode that lets you show your translated text to others with large, easy-to-read text. Google is still keep a few features exclusive to the Android version, however, including the still-experimental conversation mode that allows for some on-the-fly translations — both apps are also still lacking a much-needed beatbox mode

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Verizon iPhone 4 teardown reveals antenna changes

Teardowns (as in documented disassemblies, to plumb its inner secrets) of Verizon's iPhone 4 by several technology websites suggest the phone has redesigns that go beyond those needed for the phone to work on Verizon's network. If accurate, the reports suggest that Apple, as we expected, has seized the opportunity presented by re-engineering its smartphone for a new carrier to also remedy reception problems with the AT&T iPhone 4. A teardown of the phone by website iFixit , for example, provides a detailed picture of how the iPhone 4's antenna design was altered.

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Verizon iPhone 4 teardown reveals antenna changes

Teardowns (as in documented disassemblies, to plumb its inner secrets) of Verizon's iPhone 4 by several technology websites suggest the phone has redesigns that go beyond those needed for the phone to work on Verizon's network. If accurate, the reports suggest that Apple, as we expected, has seized the opportunity presented by re-engineering its smartphone for a new carrier to also remedy reception problems with the AT&T iPhone 4.

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Visualized: KIRFer’s paradise

LA lovers of things that Keep it Real Fake , finding your next knockoff might be a little harder than anticipated. The Los Angeles police just busted a warehouse full of knock-offs, things like GiPhones , iPhoncs , PNPs , and Poops .

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Consumers Union asks Verizon for iPhone upgrade clarification

Consumers Union , the non-profit publisher of Consumer Reports, has asked Verizon to clarify its iPhone upgrade policy. Specifically, what options will purchasers of the Verizon iPhone 4 have if a newer iPhone 5 comes out (as Apple's recent history would indicate) this summer—or at any point before a buyer's 2-year contract with the carrier ends? In a letter sent yesterday to Verizon President and CEO Daniel S

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