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Ever wanted to turn your iPhone into a Camcorder look-alike? Well guess what! Shanghai Donya has just what you need with their latest product the DN-84841. Slide your iPhone into Donya’s latest “Grip” and you will have a rather nice little grip that will turn your iPhone into a Camcorder with direct access to your iPhone camera operating buttons for a perfect experience!

The DN-84841 is unfortunately only sold in Japan and cost just around 1,999 Yen!

When you’re talking about solid aircraft grade aluminum, there’s not a whole lot to be had out there in the world of smartphone accessories – unless you’re talking about Rokform, of course. This company makes a series of covers that lock into mounts, those mounts then sticking to essentially any surface so long as its flat – and they make bike mounts as well, so flatness doesn’t always impede. Here with the Rokform RokDock, you’ve got a place to rest your phone that cannot be busted.

This dock is not made to amplify your smartphone’s speakers. It does not have NFC embedded within. It’s not made to connect to your machine with a keyboard, nor does it make your smartphone smell better.

Instead, this is the dock you want if you want your dock to stay put. It’s the heaviest dock you’ll have ever picked up – and you probably won’t be picking it up often. Instead you’ll open it up once, and then only to insert and adjust the cord that connects to your smartphone. Your microUSB (or whatever other kind of cord you’ve got) sits at the base for docking, the other end going down and out the back where it can head out to a wall port or to your PC, whatever you may need.

There’s a screw-tight adjustment inside to keep the cord tight, then a rubber bit that can be placed in any of a series of notches up above to keep your smartphone in place. The whole unit is made up of of two larger interlocking pieces of solid aluminum and a few bits of rubber all held together with several screws. WHere applicable, this unit is CNC machined and hand-assembled.

While we’ve got the gray/orange model here, you can also pick up red/black, blue, or straight up all-black. There’s also an iPhone 5 iteration of this dock that’s essentially the same, that iteration coming with a series of machined holes to redirect your speaker sound. Here you’ll be relying on good ol’ sound bouncing off metal.

Every smartphone we’ve docked in this machine has fit like a charm, that including devices up to the LG Optimus G Pro in size. This dock is made specifically to hold “Galaxy” devices including the SII, SIII, and Galaxy S 4, but as you may have guessed, all you really need to be able to do is fit. This dock agrees with the full lot of RokForm v3 cases as well – it’s big enough to hold the big phones and formed in such a way that it’ll hold the small ones, too!

The dock itself is not cheap – ringing in at $99 USD right this minute, you’ll certainly want to think about how important it is for you to be working with precision-machined metal to hold your smartphone that you likely dropped just over twice the cash on to own in the first place (on contract, even). That said, you’ll never have to deal with people saying you bought a super-expensive smartphone only to put it in a shotty, low-grade dock – this the RokDock Stand certainly isn’t!

Rokform RokDock Stand Review is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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What do you need after getting your very own Droid Mini / Ultra / Maxx? Why, accessories to go along with them, of course. Big Red introduced a slew of add-ons to accompany the newly announced phones this morning, which include cases from Speck, Incipio and Otterbox, a set of SOL Republic headphones, a SOL Republic Bluetooth speaker and matching 4,000mAh and 2,000mAh external batteries to extend the life of your just procured handsets. The speaker features something called Heist mode, which lets up to five people log on via Bluetooth. Unfortunately that’s all we can share about these for now, as they’ve yet to announce pricing, availability or anything else for that matter. We’ll be sure to share more once we have more information. To get a closer look at some of these accessories, have a peek at our eyes-on gallery below.

Update: We’ve learned that the battery packs have been out for awhile now, and run anywhere from $39.99 to $79.99 depending on desired capacity.

Zach Honig contributed to this report.

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Elecomは、カラフルでお洒落なモバイルバッテリーを8月上旬に発売します。フル充電時に約1.2回充電可能な「DE-M01L-3015シリーズ」と、約2回充電可能 な「DE-M01L-5020シリーズ」の2シリーズ。

DE-M01L-3015シリーズ
価格：　￥7,581（税込）
電池定格容量：　3.7V/3000mAh
出力：　DC5V/1.5A
サイズ：　高さ55×幅13×奥行124mm
質量：　185g
デザイン・色：　ドット、ボーダー、ホワイト、ピンク、ミックス柄1、ミックス柄2

DE-M01L-5020シリーズ
価格：　￥8,935（税込）
電池定格容量：　3.7V/5000mAh
出力：　DC5V/2A – タブレットの充電も可能
サイズ：　高さ55×幅14×奥行124mm
質量：　230g
デザイン・色：　ブラック、ホワイト、レッド、ブルー、ピンク、グレー

Nakabayashi Co, a Japanese company specialized in sourcing and reselling product from around the world in Japan announced last week the IPScan for iOS, a compact and portable scanner for your beloved iPhone or iPad. In just 331x110x98mm and for 740g, the IPSCan is a compact 300/600Dpi scanner that works as an iPhone/iPad doc and that will immediately scan an A4 document in to a nice JPEG file from the comfort of your iOS device. Only compatible with iOS 6 Devices, the IPSCan also require a dedicated application in order to work, iSCan Pro, that seems to be offered for free to any future IPScan buyers.
Announced at around 25,000 Yen the IPScan (PRN-A01) will be available across Japan within the end of this month (July).