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Tired of squinting to see that copy of Ghostbusters you rented on your iPhone? The iPhone has a beautiful screen, to be sure, but a 3.5” movie can be tough after a couple hours. Enter the new Honlai QingBar MP101 microprojector—a tiny projector with a built-in iPod dock. Videos play through the dock connector, and the MP101 delivers a picture up to 37” to a nearby surface, rivalling a medium-sized flat panel TV.

Jump past the break to check out the projector’s capabilities.

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Does the lack of buttons on the iPhone leave you less than stunned about the state of gaming on the devices? Hope may be on the horizon for your button craving thumbs.

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The iPhone is great, but, let’s face it—the camera isn’t. Boasting a mere two megapixels with fixed focus and no optical or digital zoom, the iPhone isn’t going to let you take shots close-up. However, a new product lets you do something about it: theiPhone 3G Mobile Phone Telescope. Appropriately named, the Mobile Phone Telescope is essentially a telescope that you attach on to your iPhone 3G’s camera, via an acrylic clear case that snaps onto your iPhone 3G.

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Because of the iPhone’s capacitive touch technology (which measures your finger’s electron flow), the use of a normal stylus was highly frowned upon by the device (and, in fact, didn’t even work). Those days are over. A Japanese company has now developed a stylus that mimics this sort of technology, making it very usable with the iPhone. This stylus is made of metal, and even has a SIM eject tool built in. Better yet, the tip is flexible, so dragging with the stylus is easy on your phone’s screen.

My only question for this would be, why? The whole point of the iPhone is that you don’t need a stylus and don’t have to worry about losing it. As long as you have fingers, you are good to go. However, that brings me to conradictory point. This stylus may be perfect for those people who have large fingers, like to wear gloves, or have long fingernails. This stylus would make using the iPhone much easier for those people.

What do you think? Do you know anyone who would love something like this?

Via [ThinkGeek]

When the iPhone SDK was first released, one of the big trends we saw were iPhone Web Apps springing up across the board. Websites such as Facebook jumped on the bandwagon with their web apps that let the user use a version of the website made especially for the device. Although that trend has slowed down in favor of iPhone-Native apps of late, there are still a few more notable web apps showing up. When Google engineers Allen Hutchinson and David Signleton noticed that the Translate feature of Google.com worked less then great on the iPhone, they decided to take matters into there own hands. Their resulting work has just been released as the Google Translate for iPhone BETA.

The iPhone version has all the features of the non-iPhone site, and then some. Not only does it have all the languages available on the site, but those languages are taken from the Google Translate API, so getting new languages as they are made available on the regular site is a cinch. Another handy feature is search storing, so you can look back at your past searches to save a lot of time. The only current known issues deal with Arabic characters in Safari and some redirecting issues.

Via Arstechnica

The entries have been submitted, and a winner has been selected in our Speck and Griffin iPhone case giveaway. Yes, we know everyone’s focus is on the iPhone 3G, but there are still many owners of the original iPhone out there in need of a few cases. It’s a dangerous world, after all, and we learned from the contest that there are many iPhone denting, scratching and destroying hazards out there we hadn’t dared to consider: dogs, children, zombies, gravity, keys, jealous coworkers, sand storms, highways, fried chicken...the list goes on.

The winner, though, was selected because his reason left us with a dozen images of why he needs the cases, each of them more painful than the rest. Jump past the break to read the winning entry.

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iHome, purveyor of many popular audio solutions for all types of the iPod and iPhone, has officially started shipping their newest product. The new speaker system, dubbed the iH41BR, is a great new way to take advantage of a simple standard iPhone and iPod Touch function.

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If you love your iPhone 3G so much that you are willing to spend more to get a cool-looking leather case than what you paid for the unit itself, then Noreve’s iPhone leather case might be your thing. Thanks to diamond ornaments embedded on an expensive leather material, the Noreve will set you back no more than $15K a piece.

What makes this leather case ultra-expensive are its 6.8K diamonds between 18 to 22 points of VS1 quality and G color. With such an expensive leather case, you would expect it to fully accomadate all of the iPhone’s stock form. Unfortunately this leather case just lets you slip your iPhone inside the case. This leather case is available in 15 different colors, and is said to feature 272 pieces of diamonds. The case does not come with a belt clip, but at this price, who would want to slip it onto a belt, anyway?

So, does your iPhone deserve an expensive case such as this one from Novere?

Product [Noreve] Via [I4U News]

Although Apple has decided to offer two colors for the iPhone 3G in the 16GB version, some people may want more. Thankfully, ColorWare has gotten their hands on an iPhone 3G and is now able to offer their popular device coloring service for it. There are five separate parts of the iPhone 3G that are able to be colored, the back, frame, home button, SIM tray, and earbuds. You can also get your dock colored.

The only downside to this cool service is that it is quite pricey, and you will have to be without your iPhone for about two weeks while they color it for you. If you want all six of the hardware pieces listed above colored, it will run you $230 before taxes. Just the back itself is $150. However, if you like to use your iPhone in style, it may be worth the price. Did you get your iPhone 3G colored?

Product [ColorWare]

Pity we poor, original iPhone owners, right? We see all these great new cases coming out for the iPhone 3G, while it’s pretty much the same ol’ same ol’ for us. What happened to the love? Where’s the excitement? Well, it’s right here at Appletell, as we’re going to give away four iPhone cases from Griffin and Speck.

Jump past the break for product details and contest rules.

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