Hasta La Gadget!

This past Sunday night, Eagles’ quarterback Kevin Kolb led Philadelphia to a 27-24 squeaker over the winless 49ers. Kolb led the huddle in place of the lightning hot Michael Vick who was nursing a cracked rib. Vick, of course, took over full-time passing duties from Kolb after he suffered an early season concussion. Is there a brewing QB controversy in Philly?! Oh, what do you care? You were playing Fruit Ninja on your iPad all night.

You know how I know that? Because the internet told me.

According to the official blog of mobile app analytics network Flurry, users are now spending more time playing social games than watching Sunday Night Football on NBC. In fact, at 19 million user/watchers spending an average of 22 minutes today, social gamers would now constitute TV’s sixth largest audience.

Keep in mind, these numbers only constitute mobile users, only those using iOS, and only factoring in apps that participate in the Flurry network (about 50,000 apps–roughly 25% of the total iPhone app market). There are a lot more hands diligently commanding their Minisquadran through pocket-sized battle that aren’t even figuring into this data.

Of course, these numbers aren’t so clean cut. Multitasking is the new black, and it always looks good with an iPhone. Meaning, that there is likely a lot of cross-over here. There are plenty of people diddling away in Farmville while watching football on TV.

This is the future. The most immediate change will likely be for all you modern-day Don Drapers out there–when looking for the perfect spot to put your company logos and movie trailers, there is now a much more viable and interactive option than Undercover Boss.

(Yes, commentators, I know that Don Draper is a character who lives in the TV, which is somewhat ironic that I would use him as a reference. TTYL.)

via TechCrunch

If you’ve been training with the help of Adidas’s MiCoach, now there’s an armband just for you. Griffin Technology and Adidas have partnered to create the MiCoach Sport Armband, which they promise is “ultra-lightweight.” It’s available in two versions, one for the iPhone and iPhone touch, and one for other smartphones. Made of performance nylon, it wraps around your upper bicep. It’s sweat-proof, and the touch-through cover protects your device while it’s in use.

The armband includes an inline pocket to hold a house or locker key, and there’s an openingfor your headphones. Both versions of the armband go for $29.99. So what does this sport armband have to do with Adidas’s fitness software? Well, it’s got the branding right there, printed on the case. Isn’t that enough?

It’s a problem we’ve all had to face. You’ve tracked a magnificent 12-point buck to a clearing and you’ve drawn your rifle. Just as you’re about to squeeze the trigger, it notices your shiny iPhone 4 and darts away. Drat!

To help remedy that problem that never happens, Case-mate is releasing camouflage cases for the iPhone 4/3G/3GS, iPod Touch 2G, BlackBerry Bold 9700, and BlackBerry Curve 8520. The cases cost $39.99 come in six patterns.

These aren’t just any leafy designs, by the way, but were created by Realtree, which specializes in making versatile camo patterns. One of the available patterns is pink, so perhaps these cases are meant to stand out as much as they blend in. 

Let the Windows Phone 7 deluge begin. In conjunction with this morning’s Microsoft event in New York City, T-Mobile today announced the names of its first two Windows Phone 7 devices, the HTC HD7 and the Dell Venue Pro.

The HTC HD7 is a large entertainment phone. Our mobile analyst Sascha Segan describes the thing as “clearly the carrier’s flagship.” The handset features a large 4.3-inch LCD and a rear kickstand for watching video and the like. It measures 4.8 by 2.7 by 0.44 and weighs 5.7 ounces, putting it at around the same size as the arguable unwieldy Motorola Droid X.

The phone will be bundled with Netflix and Slacker software and will be able to stream video via MobiTV.

The Dell Venue Pro, meanwhile, features a slightly small 4.1 inch screen. It’s a slider with a QWERTY keyboard. The handset also sports a 5.1-MP camera and a 1-GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor inside. The Venue will be available through Dell and select retailers.

The iPhone is coming to Verizon! Possibly! Some day! I know we’re all caught up in Verizon iPhone fever over here. How can we not be? After all, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that “people familiar with the matter” had ensured the paper that Apple’s popular iPhone is, in fact, without a doubt, absolutely, definitely, positively, for sure coming to Verizon.

The story, posted yesterday as “Apple Making Verizon-Ready iPhone by Year End,” has since been renamed the far catchier “Apple Readies Verizon iPhone.” The paper filled out the story a bit, too, adding a quote from AT&T CTO John Donovon, “It’s not like we sit around and don’t prepare for the future.” Fair enough.

Still no word from Verizon, on the matter of course. Or Apple for that matter.

I did my own post yesterday about the story. In it I mentioned that this sort of thing is nothing new, of course. We’ve been hearing rumors of a Verizon iPhone since before there ever was any iPhone to speak of.

The whole thing has made me bit sentimental for all of the Verizon iPhone records of yesteryear. So I figured, what better time to take a trip down memory lane?