The iGlaze 4 shell-case was designed for owners who prefer minimalist-style protection that serves to accentuate the unique look of the iPhone 4 while protecting it from damage.  iGlaze excels at protecting the iPhone from scratches and shocks without compromising its form and functionality.  All of the iPhone buttons are easily accessible while in the iGlaze case and photos taken with flash are unaffected.

The outside of the case is surface treated with a specialized coating that provides an unrivaled look and feel.  It also comes with a buffer film  to offer added backside scratch protection, keeping your iPhone flawless despite rigorous use.  Available in various dual-tone colors as well as crystal clear, Moshi’s iGlaze offers the most fitting protection for your iPhone while being completely unobtrusive.

Product Features

• Ultra slim fit with iPhone 4 (0.8mm thickness)
• Hardened surface treatment for enhanced scratch protection.
• Designed and tested to be “flash-friendly”; no interference to iPhone 4′s built-in flash which causes unwanted flare in photos.
• All iPhone buttons are easily accessible while resting in iGlaze shell casing.

The E130 is a messaging phone that sports a full QWERTY keyboard and as a result looks very similar to many of BlackBerry’s handsets. Acer has tried its hand at messaging phones before with the P300 and M900, but those models were based on Microsoft’s unloved Windows Mobile operating system. This time around, it has decided to give Android a go instead, but are the results an improvement on its previous attempts?

There’s no doubting where the design inspiration for the E130 comes from. With the landscape screen at the top of the phone and QWERTY keyboard sitting beneath, the handset looks very much like a BlackBerry. The phone even uses a mini trackball similar to the one found on RIM’s older Pearl range before it switched to optical trackpads. It’s hardly surprising then that the E130 looks much more business-like than recent Acer models such as the Stream.

Slipping through menus is handled by the trackball, which recalls BlackBerrys of old. While RIM has since renounced the trackball for the optical trackpad, Acer’s choice to use this ageing tech is questionable. It’s definitely responsive, but its predilection for picking up dust and dirt means you won’t want to use it too often to flick through emails and Facebook messages. Luckily, you can use the touchscreen to fulfil those functions, too.

The touch panel is pretty responsive and handy for tapping icons, although it’s not as assured as the trackball when it comes to doing more fiddly work, such as scrolling through messages and diving deep into Android’s menu systems. The touchscreen should be regarded as a secondary input method, rather than the main means of making your way around the phone. Viewed as such, it’s a handy addition and puts the Acer beTouch E130 ahead of rivals such as the Nokia E5 and BlackBerry Curve 3G.

LG revealed back in July that it will launch ten smartphones in a newly-coined Optimus line by year-end. For now it looks like an even mix of Android and WP7 devices will be in it, and LG will be topping it off with a dual-core smartphone, and a Honeycomb-running tablet. In the initial announcement, the Optimus line naturally started with the Optimus One, and the Optimus Chic, both of which are running Froyo.

The 3.2” capacitive touchscreen is rather basic as specs (320×480 pixels of resolution, 262 000 colors), but decent in terms of sunlight visibility, viewing angles and responsiveness. The color gamut and contrast could be wider, but at this price point, sacrifices are inevitable. The rounded design, with nice soft-touch coating front and back make the LG Optimus One a pleasure to hold. The chrome-like bezel, and the elevated plate for the two most used Android buttons in the front, add just the grain of pizzazz required to make the handset stand out in the sea of Android design mediocrity.

With Android 2.2 the Optimus One gets all the latest Google mobile services like Flash support, and these have been enhanced this time around with the addition of voice control. Voice commands can be used for searching the Internet and navigation. Voice search was fine when it understood what was being said and this issue arose with all the voice related apps.

Navigation was further complicated by the fact that it would not always be able to locate itself when in the urban canyon or indoors. However the big disappointment was surfing the Internet.

Compared with 1GHz handsets the Optimus One seemed sluggish in downloading web pages, and scrolling and zoom pinching could be problematic at times. The screen did not always recognise what was being done and the zoom would move in an unintended action. The conclusion to be drawn from this is that effective Internet reading and surfing should be done with a larger display and a more powerful processor.

Key features:

• 3.2″ 256K-color capacitive TFT touchscreen of HVGA resolution (320 x 480 pixels); Multi-touch input
• Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE support
• Dual-band 3G with HSDPA (7.2 Mbps)
• 600MHz CPU running Android 2.2 Froyo; 419MB RAM
• 3 megapixel autofocus camera; face and smile detection, geotagging
• VGA video recording @ 18fps
• microSD card slot, up to 32GB, 2GB in the box
• Standard 3.5mm audio jack
• Standard microUSB port (charging)
• GPS receiver with A-GPS; Digital compass
• Wi-Fi b/g; Wi-Fi hotspot functionality built-in
• Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
• Accelerometer for screen auto rotate; Proximity sensor
• FM radio with RDS
• Office document editor
• Portrait and landscape on-screen QWERTY keyboard
• Social networking integration
• DivX/XviD support
• Smart dialing
• Excellent loudspeaker performance

The MiLi Power Pack 4 is more of a backpack than a case, as it doesn’t cover the whole of the phone, leaving the top poking out a centimeter or so, and only protecting three-quarters of the sides.  The piano black finish and silver highlights compliment the curvy design well, making it an attractive accessory to own.

The design is also intelligent, as the iPhone 4’s camera lens is exposed properly and there are two ports on the base of the Power Pack, ensuring the iPhone 4’s speakers aren’t blocked.  The iPhone 4 slides in easily, even with a screen protector fitted, and the 30-pin connector lines-up perfectly.  We did find the screen protector made removal of the phone a bit of a struggle though, so keep this in mind if you have both a front and rear shield fitted.

Functional differences are also noteworthy. Whereas Juice Pack is solely designed to work with the iPhone 3G, and doesn’t connect to the original iPhone, MiLi works with both. PhoneSuit has placed MiLi’s battery indicators and button on the unit’s bottom front rather than on its back, where Juice Pack’s are located, and MiLi also includes an outgoing full-sized USB port in addition to the incoming mini-USB that both it and Juice Pack situate on the bottom left corner. As a result, Juice Pack does one thing: it recharges the iPhone 3G. MiLi recharges the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and also any other USB device you might want to connect to its bottom. The only other backpack to offer a similar feature was FastMac’s TruePower iV.

But our advice would be to consider MiLi as a strong alternative. PhoneSuit’s $20 less expensive package forces you to give up nothing in battery life and only a little in size, while adding color options and the outbound USB port. Between this port and MiLi’s iPhone-agnostic body design, there’s a greater chance of actually getting use out of this battery in a post-iPhone 3G era. We consider this to be a strong alternative to iV, though with its own set of compromises to consider; those looking purely for cheap power without the backpack-styled design will get more bang for the buck from Just Mobile’s Gum and Gum Pro batteries.

The Samsung Wave 525 will not win any design awards with its plain black rectangular shape with chrome-like accents, such as a thin rim around the phone. The capacitive touchscreen screen is 3.2″ with 240×400 pixels of resolution, which makes the interface and websites look scraggy, and average sunlight visibility. Underneath it is the home button, flanked by send and end keys. There is a volume rocker on the left, microUSB port and 3.5mm audio jack on top, as well as a lock/power button plus a dedicated camera key on the right. Don’t ask us why bada phones have a separate shutter key, while their Android brethren by Samsung only have virtual camera buttons, as we can’t answer that on behalf of the company.

The phone features a 3.2? capacitive TFT touchscreen. The physical size of the screen is – 70×42 mm (2.91?x1.65?) and the resolution is 240×400 (WQVGA). It is bright with maximum viewing angles.The dimensions of Samsung Wave 525 (109.5 x 55 x 11.7 mm (4.31?x2.16?x0.46?) are comparable with those of other inexpensive touchscreen models of the company and the majority of modern phones. The phone is comfortable to hold in hands. It is not heavy, so you do not get tired during the conversation. You can carry it in any pocket or a bag.

The back hosts the 3MP camera, and replaces the usual glossy black plastic Samsung is using in most of its handsets of late for a dotted pattern one, which makes the phone less slippery to handle. The phone lies comfortably in the hand, and is fairly thin and light at 4.31 x 2.17 x 0.47” (109.5 x 55 x 11.9 mm), and 3.53 oz (100 g) of weight. The back cover is pretty prone to smudges and visible marks from everyday use, despite that it is not glossy plastic, but a simple wiping takes it all away. The Samsung Wave 525 will be available in three colors – black, white and pink.