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Rebel Scholar iPhone Case
0Since I’m planning on getting the new iPhone 3GS, whenever O2 Ireland sort out their stock issues, I’ve been looking around at the different cases available.
The first thing I learned is the best place to find out about iPhone case is from a guy called Carlos who runs the itsmemorphious YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/itsmemorphious). I’ve been looking through his videos trying to see what case would best suit my needs. What’s great about Carlos’s videos is that he actually uses the cases, he tests them out and really knows what’s what when he does his reviews but it’s his latest video on the Rebel Scholar that has really caught my attention.
The case he got to review just looks so good and it also fits well and would seem to give great protection to the handset. Now of course I went straight to the Rebel Scholar website (http://www.rebelscholar.com) only to find that the case Carlos reviewed was one of the high end $100 cases and to make things worse there were others there that looked better! I especially liked the Silver and Blue
OK so the high end cases are well outside my budget for a case but when you look down the product line, the mid range cases are $34.99 and the lower range cases are $19.99. The lower range cases are plain colours but I’m sure are still made using the same quality material as the high end one and so would be a good buy at that price. I think I’ll go that bit extra and go for one of the mid range cases, looking like it’ll be the Poison Petals case.
For anyone interested in getting a case for their iPhone or iPod Touch you should definitely check out Carlos on his channel http://www.youtube.com/itsmemorphious and consider the Rebel Scholar as a possibility.
iPhone 3Gs… Where it should have started??
0To start with I’m not what’s being called a Mac “Fanboy”. Any device I’ve decided to purchase, the decision has been based on the actual device and not on who manufactures it or the hype surrounding it and that’s why I’ve avoided the previous 2 iPhones. The new iPhone 3Gs sees some improvements to the hardware to bring it in to line withother popular smart phones on the market but combining it with the new iPhone OS 3.0 upgrade puts it right up there as one of the better phones on the market and now deserves my attention.
The 3Gs was announced by Philip Schiller during the keynote address at this year’s Apple WWDC on June 8th. It becomes available in the US, UK and 6 other countries on Friday June 19th and in Ireland plus 5 more countries a week later on Friday June 26th.
The big things in the hardware end are an increase in speed (that’s what the S stands for) and the addition of a better camera which is now 3mp and is capable of video capture. The 3.0 software upgrade adds things like copy and paste, SMS forwarding and MMS all things that any basic smart phone can do already.
With the changes made, it brings me to my point, the 3Gs is really the first proper iPhone. It’s the one that should have been launched 2 years ago and there’s no reason it couldn’t have been as there’s nothing added to it now that wasn’t available then. I do think this iPhone will be the one to bring in customers (including me) that were not sure before. I’ll be watching the launch in the US and UK on Friday very closely to see how things go before I make my final decision whether or not to get one next week but currently I think I’m going to be making the change.
For more information on the iPhone 3Gs see here and for information and pricing on it’s launch with o2 in Ireland see here.
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