MiLi debuts Power Skin battery case and PocketPal charger

The device is called the Power Skin and claims to be the world’s thinnest external battery and protective case for the iPhone 3G and 3GS. The case has a pass through USB port for charging the case and the phone at the same time. It also has a 1200 mAh battery with double the capacity [...]

First Impressions of Steam for Mac Including Portal and Team Fortress 2

Valve Corporation's foray into PC digital games distribution can't be defined as anything less than a success. Steam, the service, has garnered tons of fanfare from users, critics, and publishers alike for its simplistic design and non-obtrus...

Best of Smartphone Experts, 9 May 2010

How to improve battery life on your Android phone Sprint Evo 4G WiMax hotspot likely will have a monthly charge, and a look at Radio Shack’s Evo 4G sales sheets Dropbox Android app is now available Bonus: Nexus One giveaway winners	Video First Look of BlackBerry 6 Running on a BlackBerry 9670 Video First Look of the BlackBerry Bold 9800 Slider BlackBerry Tablet Rumors: What We Know and What We Don’t Know
Nokia and Microsoft launch Communicator Mobile Use your own voice with Ovi Maps	AT&T Pre Plus Preview from the inside 3rd party apps can’t access Verizon A-GPS, but there’s a patch for that Rumor: HP Hurricane webOS Tablet in Q3?
iPad coming to Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and UK on May 28, and here’s the pricing iPhone OS 4 beta 3 brings screen orientation lock, iPod control widgets, iTunes file transfer Contest: Create theme music for our iPad Live! podcast, win fabulous prizes	Windows Phone 7 reportedly running Windows CE 7 kernel GPS Tab for Windows Mobile with Sense 2.5 Microsoft Kin pricing announced

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International iPad pre-orders start now for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and UK!

As the clock hits 12:00am local time, Apple is bringing international Apple Online Stores in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK back up with their iPad pre-orders ready to rock.

If yours hasn’t updated yet and you just can’t wait, keep hitting refresh on the hour every hour and its bound to show up eventually.

And when you do get your order on, drop a comment and tell us which country and what model you get, and whether its for delivery or if you’re reserving to go pick it up at an Apple Retail Store near you (provided that’s an option in your area).

Then sit back, relax, and if you’re anything like me tear your hair out waiting for it show up on May 28.

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Next Generation iPhone Case And Front Screen LCD Caught On Video

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iPad Live! Tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT (1am GMT)

Join us tonight at 8pm ET/5pm PT, 1am GMT for iPad Live!, our brand-spanking-new podcast focused on all things iPad, with the latest news, how-tos, and app and game reviews!

http://www.tipb.com/live/

Want to be part of the show?

Grab your iPhone, launch Voice Memo, record yourself introducing the show. Tell us your name, where you live, your favorite iPhone app, and finish it off with “…and my favorite podcast is iPhone Live!” Then email it to news (at) tipb (dot) com. We’ll pick one of you, and you’ll be on the show!

• Example: “Hi, this is Bill from Redmond, my favorite app is Bing, and my favorite podcast is iPad Live!”

Chat with you soon!

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Jailbroken iPad gets Apple Magic Mouse support

Redmond Pie decided to try out BTstack Mouse on a Jailbroken iPad and the results were promising:

Not only did it worked with Apple Magic Mouse, but also with almost all the other Bluetooth enabled mice I had. For those of you who don’t know, BTstack Mouse is a free utility which was first released earlier this year for jailbroken iPhones and iPod touch.

First a Nintendo Wiimote, then an external HDD, now BT mouse. Is there anything Jailbreak can’t do?

Check out Ally’s Spirit Jailbreak guide, and TiPb’s Jailbreak forum for more, and the link below for step-by-step BTstack for iPad instructions.

[RedmondPie]

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Steve Jobs Blames Government, Tax For Higher iPad Pricing For International Users

Steve Jobs on international iPhone pricing: educate yourself and blame your government

Steve Jobs has purportedly twice again responded to customers, this over concerns about international iPad pricing and why its typically higher than in the US. To the UK customers, Jobs replied:

Please educate yourself. UK prices must by law include VAT, which is around 18%. US prices do not include tax.

MacRumors did the math and figured out:

The standard VAT rate in the UK is 17.5%, meaning that the £429 base price for the 16 GB Wi-Fi iPad in the UK is actually only £365 in “pre-tax” pricing. At current exchange rates, this corresponds to approximately $540 in the United States, or an approximately $40 premium for U.K. customers. While the price difference is not insignificant, it is considerably smaller than it might appear at first glance.

For Germany, Jobs replied:

Blame your government. Germany just added a new copyright levy for computers.

Which is something TiPb linked to yesterday — Germany has introduced 15 EUR surcharge to computers for “copyright”. Sigh.

As to why iPads and other consumer electronics cost more outside the US in general, companies typically attribute this to higher transport costs, union fees, and general business expenses.

But do Steve Jobs’ classically terse emails make those price differentials any easier to swallow?

[MacRumors, fscklog]

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iPhone HD/iPhone 4G casing in the wild

With the 4th generation iPhone HD/iPhone 4G almost certainly ramping up for production in anticipation for a WWDC 2010 introduction, it’s not too surprising parts like the casing are beginning to show up in the wild.

What SmartPhone Medic is showing in the video below matches up to the iPhone prototype Gizmodo got their hands on, once again adding weight to the assertions that this is pretty close to the final design we’ll see this June.

SmartPhone Medic also had the iPhone G4 screen back at the end of March. Impossible to keep these things secret anymore?

[SmartPhone Medic, thanks Tim for the tip!]

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Connect External Hard Drive To iPad Using Camera Connection Kit