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  • Supposed next-gen iPhone cases surface in China

    Supposed next-gen iPhone cases surface in China

    Posted on May 20, 2010 | No Comments
    We're not sure if it's a result of some hard information or simply an educated guess, but it looks like the first next-gen iPhone cases (or would-be cases) are now starting to find their way before a camera. The most convincing of those comes courtesy of Hardmac, which received the image above from one of its contacts in China -- a quick search of the model name also reveals the manufacturer, Shenzhen Soonleader Electronic Co, and a few more pics (check them out after the break). As you can see, it has all the right curves, a larger opening for a flash and, if you look really closely, you can see the necessary spaces for the new side buttons. Like we said, this could well just be a case of a manufacturer looking to get a jump start, or it could be... something more.

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  • April Fools Shenanigans: The 2010 Definitive List

    April Fools Shenanigans: The 2010 Definitive List

    Posted on April 1, 2010 | No Comments
    Time to live blog April Fools 2010! Some of us got a jump start on the time-honored tradition (not to name any names here), but we still have about 24 hours of shenanigans left. As the new hire, I have the dubious honor of managing the TechCrunch April Fool’s Scorecard.

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  • Seagate to announce new ultra-thin drives at CES

    Seagate to announce new ultra-thin drives at CES

    Posted on December 10, 2009 | No Comments
    Seems like Seagate is trying to make up for some lost time in the storage technology field. After a late entry into the SSD market, Seagate may be getting a jump start on the ultra-thin drive market. One of the issues with the new ultra-thin generation of notebook computers is the hard drive size. You can only make a computer so thin before you run into issues with the thickness of the components.

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  • I don’t know if the new iPhone has a front camera, but it should

    I don’t know if the new iPhone has a front camera, but it should

    Posted on June 7, 2009 | No Comments
    We're just two days away from Apple's WWDC keynote where it's expected to show off the next generation iPhone hardware. Not surprisingly, pictures are starting to surface on the web of the purported device — a French site, Nowhere Else, has a bunch of them, that have since been posted elsewhere. Who knows if the pictures are real or fake — it seems like just as often these days people yell "Photoshop," when the product is actually real as the vice-versa situation. But real or fake, I have to say that I hope they're real for one reason. While at first glance, that device looks nearly identical to the current iPhone (it seems like that will definitely be the case), there is one big difference: A front-facing camera. This is interesting to me for two reasons, because it could jump-start two trends: Mobile video chatting and the self-picture.

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