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We’ll look at Palm’s big webOS, Palm Pre Plus, and Palm Pixi Plus announcements, and oh, yeah — Dieter’s got a Nexus One to talk about. Plus everything we saw on the showroom floor.

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ZAGG, the makers of Invisible Shield, have diversified in a big way with their ZAGGbox video recorder, ZAGGsparq battery charger, and AppSpace service.

ZAGGbox pulls in all your analog video (including HD via component), gives you fast switching via a unified remote, and renders iPhone-compatible video you can send right to your device.

ZAGGsparq is a massive battery charger that re-charge an iPhone 4 times before it runs out of juice, and since it has 2 USB ports, it can charge your Bluetooth or any other compatible gadget at the same time.

AppSpace is an application discovery engine where you can go online to try and sort through the App Store’s massive catalog and find more of the stuff you like. It also supports Android, with BlackBerry, Palm, and Symbian coming soon.

Video of all three, after the break!

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ZAGGbox, ZAGGsparq, App Space — TiPb @ CES 2010

Many of the latest rumors about the Apple iTablet/iSlate involve it being a large iPhone, or as Daring Fireball points out, the iPhone being a smaller version of an older Apple tablet project. Way back in June of 2007, the New York Times mentioned just that, and the tablet project was Safari Pad:

Mr. Jobs seized on the multitouch technology after Apple product designers proposed it as a "safari pad," a portable Web surfing appliance. Instead, he saw the technology as something that could be used for a similar purpose in a cellphone, a former Apple employee said.

We’ve linked to those stories and that name several times over the years, and while we doubt an actual shipping Apple tablet will still be called Safari Pad, given the state of the rumors, Gruber’s point (linked above) is salient:

The Tablet is what Apple set out to build all along, and the iPhone was an offshoot that shipped first because the technology wasn't there yet to produce The Tablet. In short, that Apple has had something bigger in mind — both physically and conceptually — from the outset.

Gruber’s also heard there won’t be a camera or webcam in the tablet, but we’re still keeping our fingers crossed.

Either way, it’s looking more and more like the “next big thing” for Apple is tightly connected to the iPhone.

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From Safari Pad to iPhone and Back Again

Here in the great state of Illinois we kicked off the new year with a law that prohibits anyone talking on their cell phones (including the iPhone) while driving a vehicle — unless they use a Bluetooth device. Now I am not not sure about your state laws but if you are in the same boat as I am, why not take a look at the Motorola Bluetooth Car Speakerphone T305? [$44.95 - TiPb Store Link

For the full review follow me after the break!

The Moto T305 comes with a sturdy clip that you attach to the device itself, and then slide directly onto your sun visor. Either side of the visor will do – front or back, and during my few weeks of testing it remained securely in place and not once did it come off the visor. Charging the T305 is a piece of cake with the included mini-USB car adapter. Motorola’s claim of 12 hours of talk time and 200 hours of standby time turned out to be pretty dead on give or take.

The controls of the T305 are plain and simple, and that is a positive. It contains a dedicated power button, volume up and down buttons on either side of the device, and a giant call button directly in the center. One thing that may be troublesome to some users is that the call button flashes blue constantly when the device is powered on, regardless of whether or not you are on a phone call. It can be distracting at night and just seems wasteful.

As far as sound quality, based on other car speakerphones I have tested, I’d rate the Moto T305 slightly above average. The T305 contains enhanced echo and noise reduction technologies that help keep both incoming and outgoing call quality clean and crisp. One issue I did run into was if you turn the volume up too far the sound makes it’s way back to the receiver and makes the person on the other line hear themselves (echo effect). You can eliminate that particular issue by turning the volume down a bit. Other than that one problem, I did not experience any other voice quality issues.

If you are looking for a hands-free solution for your vehicle and a headset is out of the question, you can’t go wrong with the low price and good performance of the Motorola T305 Bluetooth Speakerphone.

For more information and full specs, check out the TiPb store!

Disclaimer: The TiPb iPhone Accessory Store provided the speakerphone for this review.

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Motorola Portable Bluetooth Car Speakerphone T305 for Hands-free iPhone 3G/3GS Talking

Ion’s iType is a full sized — full. sized. — keyboard for the iPhone or iPod touch that comes bundled with an App Store app for easy text input. Output is another story — given the iPhone’s app sandboxing, you have to email or copy and paste the text into other apps. Ion is open to letting other apps use their hardware, however, so if Apple doesn’t get it together and offer standardized keyboard dock and BT protocols, and something like a Finger App to share document content, we’re hoping third parties can get at least part of it done themselves.

They also make a piano/synthesizer style iDiscover keyboard as well.

But enough philosophy, let’s get physical with the keyboard. And who better to try perform the ultimate typing test than our best frenemy CrackBerry Kevin. He puts it through its paces in the video below. Check it out after the break, and let us know what you think.

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iType Physical Keyboard for iPhone Gets the Ultimate Test — TiPb @ CES 2010

Well, well, look who’s coming to demo — CrackBerry.com’s Kevin Michaluk, and we gave him the full-on look at Apple’s latest iPhone 3GS, so be sure to check that out.

Kevin being Kevin, he’s also hopped onto TiPb’s iPhone Forums to ask “where’s the keyboard on this thing?” Every day you help him on that thread, you’re entered for a chance to WIN AN iPHONE 3GS! (smartphoneroundrobin.com has all your details!)

As for me, I’m over at the WMExperts Forums trying to figure out if the HTC HD2 is the obelisk from 2001… or something bigger. Give me a hand over there, and you could win one of them ginormous bad boys as well!

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iPhone Hands-on from a BlackBerry Abuser’s Perspective — Smartphone Round Robin

The Boy Genius claims, based on info from a source who’s proven reliable before, that we haven’t gotten an iPhone OS update recently (oh, hai still missing iPhone 3.2!) because:

there's too much tablet-related code/references in the OS and Apple obviously didn't want that to leak.

He’s also heard that multitouch gestures for the iTablet/iSlate are “out of control”, it’s got a super-fast ARM processor that runs the iPhone OS kernel, is model K48AP, and is pretty much an “iPhone on steroids”.

If this pans out, being so closely linked to the iPhone will no doubt disappoint Mac OS X tablet enthusiasts, but benefit the iPhone in terms of leveraged development and shared features.

Either way, we can still only expect it when we see it…

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BGR: No iPhone OS Updates Recently Because it Would Reveal Tablet Info?

Think this GigaOm visual representation of the iPhone and iPod touch App Store Economy is massive? Check out that economy itself. (And we’re guessing there are far more devices on the market now, given how 50 million was nearly 2 quarters ago).

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iPhone App Store Economy Even More Massive Than This Visualization