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If there’s one company in the world who knows more about gripping phones than anyone else, it’s Nokia — you know, the creator and sole proprietor of sidetalkin’. So on that note, you might want to sit up and pay attention to this little piece over on Nokia Conversations detailing four popular grip styles that won’t kill your signal, including the four-edge — a work of art that we’ve attempted to demonstrate for you with limited success in the picture above. We totally buy the claim that this particular grip causes zero signal degradation in virtually any cellphone ever launched (the curious stares you get are just a bonus), but Nokia goes on to boast that “realistically, you’re free to hold your Nokia device any way you like… and you won’t suffer any signal loss.” Thing is, hands have never really gotten along with phone antennas — see the shot of a Nokia user’s manual explaining this phenomenon after the break, along with a video of an E71 exhibiting some signal drama when touched the wrong way — but seriously, just use the four-edge and you should be good to go. Come on, do it.

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This is UFO Car? What, you ask, is UFO Car, exactly? I am not sure. I received an e-mail about UFO Car this morning, with image-based text written entirely in Arabic. I did a little research and discovered that the e-mail about UFO Car came from a company called Future Bright, whose site is also in Arabic, though, thankfully, the site is text-based, so Google’s translation is actually a bit of help.

Future Bright, it turns out, is an electronic marketing firm. It offers companies the opportunity to, “advertise in a contemporary way and talk on the latest advertising and are the boards internal illuminated static or animated to climb a touch of beauty to the place inside it.” Okay, so Google Translate isn’t perfect.

And it also doesn’t seem to shed much light on UFO Car. Too bad, because the UFO Car Future Bright advertisement leaves so many questions unanswered. For starters, how can a car also be a UFO? Is it a flying car? Also, what makes it unidentified? The fact that I can’t read Arabic?

If I had to go out on a limb, I would identify UFO Car as a compact SUV. But I’m probably wrong. The truth is out there, friends. The truth about UFO Car.

The fact that the iPhone 4’s front and back are both glass just means double the likelihood that you’ll bust it. You better slap a case on that puppy right away. Make it a super-sturdy one, like the Ballistic HC. (That stands for “hard-core,” an abbreviation that deserves to catch on.) The Ballistic HC features an interchangeable outer gel skin layer, front-facing inward holster, and built-in screen protector. It also incorporates innovative connector seals, to ensure that dirt and other corrosive materials don’t enter the ports.

The Ballistic HC is built with shock absorption materials, and the exterior has a rugged and edgy appearance–for durability and good looks. Look for it this summer at AT&T stores for $49.99.

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You weren’t banking on getting your hands on a new Nintendo 3DS this Christmas, were you? The chances that the gaming giant will deliver the hotly anticipated portable by the end of the year seem slim indeed. While the company hasn’t ruled it out entirely, Nintendo president Reggie Fils-Aime announced late last week that the handheld will ship by the end of March 2011.

Granted, there’s a pretty big window between now and then, but given the announced time frame, I would be surprised to see the new system launching before the holidays this year.

PC World speculates that Nintendo is planning a holiday launch in Japan, with the rest of us getting access to the device early next year. It’s not an entirely unrealistic prediction. Nintendo does, after all, tend to release hardware in its native country first. Of course, it would be unfortunate for the company to just miss the holidays in the rest of the world with its biggest E3 announcement.

You can check out my brief hands-on write up with the device over at PCMag.com.