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Samsung’s going all out with its Galaxy Camera accessory lineup. In addition to the cases and Flip Covers we saw at Unpacked earlier this week, the company had some external flashes and professional-looking holsters on hand at its IFA booth, including a grip-mounted adjustable strobe, a ring light set and a sophisticated carrying rig, complete with hinged barn doors to block out unwanted glare. There were also hard covers in multiple dark colors, a handful of soft rubber-looking covers in light colors like aqua and lime green, along with an oversized wireless charging pad mock-up. In typical IFA fashion, booth attendants were unable to provide any information whatsoever, so it’s anyone’s guess what any of these gadgets cost, or if they’ll even make it to market. It’s also unclear whether or not any of the accessories are functional at this point, or simply mock-ups of add-ons under consideration. In the meantime, you can take a closer look in the gallery below.

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ego has just introduced their Hybrid Series USB design into their latest Samsung Galaxy S3 case, where it will come with the added advantage of carrying around additional storage in the form of a 4GB, 8GB or 16 GB USB flash drive. Fashionistas will obviously be pleased to see that this unique Galaxy S3 case comes in seven different color options, with matching slide-in USB drives to boot. It makes it harder to forget leaving the all important USB flash drive behind whenever you are in a hurry, and it is also a whole lot more difficult to lose it since the color alone would remind you that it ought to be embedded into your Galaxy S3′s case when it is not in use.

The USB case itself is touted to deliver superior protective and scratch resistant qualities, all the while without compromising on access to the slew of ports and controls on your Galaxy S3. White is the standard issue color, although there are blue, pink, yellow, light green, red and black options as well. You can mix and match the case and USB flash drive colors though if you are feeling more adventurous. The 4GB, 8GB and 16GB cases will retail for $34.95, $39.95 and $49.95, respectively.

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It appears that the iPad mini has been making the rounds in the accessories market once again as a couple of internationally-sourced photos have appeared with the unconfirmed hardware in plain view. While said cases could still have been falsified in one way or another, there are several interesting details that one should pay attention to where they anticipating the next-generation tablet. The back of this tablet – if these cases are indeed made for the real-deal device – will have not one, but two microphone holes in the center back and top of the tablet when held in portrait mode.

Another point to be aware of is the size of these cases are obviously too small for the classic iPad model. The bottoms of these cases are each created to make way for a new port configuration, as previous “leaks” have been, and the headphone hack appears to be at the top of the device – not at the bottom as the new iPhone 5 tips have suggested. The bottom of this iPad does, however, continue to have the double set of speaker hole grids like the smartphone has been teased with.

These cases appear to make the supposed smaller iPad appear quite thin. This thinness lends itself well to the idea that the tablet will essentially be an “iPad Air” as suggested just yesterday in a post all about how an iPad mini will not be appearing on September 12th. That date will more than likely play host to the iPhone 5 exclusively, paired with iOS 6 for a smartphone-centric reveal.

This iPad mini situation is more than likely headed for October, also suggested yesterday in the same post from last night, where a new iPod touch and additional smaller iPods may well be revealed. These cases being shown are being made either without any physical specifications at all, or the manufacturers have gotten their hands on a very early model of the device made specifically for accessory makers. If it’s the second option, Apple will not be happy with them, that’s for certain.

Have a peek at other recent iPad mini news bits to stay caught up on this unicorn as it edges closer and closer to reality.

[via KnowYourMobile]

iPad mini appears in pre-fab case photos is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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The Galaxy Note 10.1 is now good and official stateside, and you know that means Samsung has some new accessories to shill. On hand at Lincoln Center were leather cases in a variety of colors (including white, orange and brown) along with versions that mimic the flip covers for the original Galaxy Note and the Galaxy S III — the difference being that they don’t replace the Note 10.1’s backing, as that’s not removable. Samsung also had a keyboard case on display, though so far we’ve yet to see more details. For now, you’ll have to settle for our eyes-on photos below.

Zach Honig contributed to this report.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 cases and keyboard dock eyes-on originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 15 Aug 2012 13:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s time to have a peek at a few pre-made cases for the fabled iPad mini, a device which Apple has not yet confirmed the existence of, but which appears to have made the rounds in case-form fashion to case manufacturers. This device, if we’re to believe the cases we’re seeing here and now via IorN, have a camera on the back near the power button on top with no LED flash to speak of. It also appears that this tablet will have at least a 7-inch display if not larger.

This device, again if these cases are to be any indication of the real final product, will have a mini dock connector as opposed to the original 30-pin iPod dock. It’ll also have two microphone holes, one on the top and another near the top on the back for noise cancellation. This device also has a headphone jack at the top on the opposite side as the power button.

Apple has long been rumored to be creating a miniature version of the original iPad but hopes were dashed when Steve Jobs gave his infamous “sandpaper” comment during an earnings call back in October of 2010. The important bits of this talk are here, courtesy of Miguel Helft of CNN Fortune:

“I’d like to comment on the avalanche of tablets poised to enter the market in the coming months. First, it appears to be just a handful of credible entrants, not exactly an avalanche. Second, almost all of them use seven-inch screens as compared to iPad’s near 10-inch screen. Let’s start there. One naturally thinks that a seven-inch screen would offer 70% of the benefits of a 10-inch screen. Unfortunately, this is far from the truth. The screen measurements are diagonal, so that a seven-inch screen is only 45% as large as iPad’s 10-inch screen. You heard me right; just 45% as large.

If you take an iPad and hold it upright in portrait view and draw an imaginary horizontal line halfway down the screen, the screens on the seven-inch tablets are a bit smaller than the bottom half of the iPad display. This size isn’t sufficient to create great tablet apps in our opinion.

Well, one could increase the resolution of the display to make up for some of the difference. It is meaningless, unless your tablet also includes sandpaper, so that the user can sand down their fingers to around one quarter of the present size. Apple’s done extensive user-testing on touch interfaces over many years, and we really understand this stuff. There are clear limits of how close you can physically place elements on a touch screen before users cannot reliably tap, flick or pinch them. This is one of the key reasons we think the 10-inch screen size is the minimum size required to create great tablet apps.” – Steve Jobs

Much more recently, on the other hand, a Samsung lawsuit revealed that Jobs may very well have been “very receptive” to a smaller iPad. At the moment we’re all still a bit suspicious and doubtful of an actual smaller iPad as such a device wouldn’t be very “Apple” when it comes to one hero device per hardware category. On the other hand, we’re in an age where Apple releases two versions of the MacBook Pro, one with a Retina display, one without, at the same time. So anything is possible!

Have a peek at our timeline of iPad mini stories below to put together the whole puzzle before the device actually gets revealed by the company!

iPad mini pre-release cases appear is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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