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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

An important part of any boater’s arsenal is a good cell phone.  Of course these days it seems any phone just won’t do anymore.  Ever since Apple threw it’s hat into the cell phone arena, people have been flocking to it’s new “touch” interface.  With their newer, faster, and cheaper 3G model now available, and several other worthy contenders now on the market, I figured it was a good time to compare some of the most popular models.  Since we are setting the Apple iPhone as the benchmark, we’ll throw in 2 (almost 3) other phones that have a touch interface into the mix.  The other phones are the Samsung Instinct and the HTC Touch Diamond, which are both Microsoft Windows Mobile 6 smartphones.  The other contender that is still on the outside looking in, is the upcoming “Google-phone” running it’s new Google-developed software called “Android.”  Google hasn’t officially announced a release date yet, but we do have a video of the software running in an almost finalized version.

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Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Apple showed off their new lineup of iPods earlier today. There were many changes across the board, and they finally introduced the long-awaited touch-enabled widescreen iPod dubbed the “iPod Touch.” Details on each model follows…

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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

In the August 2007 issue of Wired Magazine there is a review of 4 waterproof cases for your iPod. Most people have already quenched their music listening thirst on the water with the Liquid Tunes MP3 player [externallink] from Liquid Force. For those of you Apple fanatics that MUST USE iPOD, this review will be a good starting point on how to get your beats on the water.

The highest marks in the test were from H20 Audio for Nano 2nd Gen [$80 externallink] and the OtterBox for iPod Nano [$40 externallink]. It wasn’t all about the iPod Nanos though, they also had some soft “bag-style” cases that will accommodate any iPod (or other MP3 player).

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[EDIT: Alliance is also posting a story about the new H20 Audio waterproof iPod Shuffle case [externallink]]