Solid Line Products (http://www.solidlineproducts.com) is now taking orders for its all-in-one leather case & Bluetooth keyboard for the iPad, which ships next week. The Bluetooth 2.0 silicone keyboard is built into the quality leather folio case designed to protect the iPad from nicks, scratches, and scuffs.
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Headcase has introduced the US$39 Etch-a-Sketch iPad case (http://www.getaheadcase.com). It resembles one of America’s favorite toys and is made of impact resistant ABS plastic.
Rubber feet and a felt backing cradle the Apple tablet inside the case, while strategically placed windows throughout the Etch-a-Sketch case allow for use of all switches, ports, and buttons. A retractable kick stands allow one to either lay the iPad flat, or angle it for using the keyboard.
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Nova media (http://www.novamedia.de) has unveiled iHub Basic for Mac OS X. The US$29.95 software syncs contacts and calendars automatically and wirelessly between Macs, iPhones, iPads and iPod touches in any local network.
The software installs on a Mac and shares selected calendars, contacts and address book groups. Other Macs and iOS devices on the same network can access and edit any shared data. iHub Basic doesn’t require any additional client software as it uses the open standards CalDAV and CardDAV which are supported by default by Mac OS X and iOS.
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For a fourth consecutive time, Apple ranks highest in customer satisfaction among manufacturers of smartphones with a score of 800 on a 1,000-point scale, and performs particularly well in ease of operation, operating system, features and physical design, according to the J.D. Power and Associates’ (http://www.JDPower.com) 2010 U.S. Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study. Motorola (791) and HTC (781) follow Apple in the rankings.
Read MoreCompanies that force employees to use BlackBerries may be indirectly hurting the brand by fomenting low user loyalty, according to the latest Crowd Science study into smartphone brand loyalty.
Only 35% of survey respondents whose smartphone choices were foisted on them by corporate mandate said they were “very satisfied” with their brand, compared with about 60% of users who exercised at least some choice in their smartphone purchases.
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