You may not know the name Luvvitt, but you should. They make affordable, attractive iPhone, iPad, and Samsung cases, plus they’ve branched out into Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad and iPad Mini. I’ve used their Dolce back cover for my iPad 3, and even though I have tested other cases I always come back to [...]
Accessories at CES Illustrate Only Apple and Samsung Matter
I had the privilege of walking the CES floor and trying hard to cover as much as I could for Gear Diary this past week. It was, as you can imagine, absolutely geek heaven. I can’t even count how many smartphone accessories I saw this week, but one common thread stood out among the many [...]
Boost Your Smartphone Volume With Smartsound Case
Company: SmartSound Case Products on Display: Cases for the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S3 and Samsung Galaxy Note that have a kickstand that doubles as a channel to naturally amplify sounds without needing a separate powered speaker. Also includes a reflective flash ring for brighter photos. What Caught Our Eye: The cases were very [...]
USBFever’s Flexible & Flodable Articulating Wall Mount for Samsung Galaxy Tab
I know you all are seeing a flood of CES posts, but there are other things going on, yo. And if you’ve been reading Gear Diary regularly you’ll know that USBFever doesn’t like to let a week go by without putting out a bucketload of gear. And this week is no different, with them releasing [...]
Apple iPad mini, Samsung GT-i9260 Galaxy Premier and Sony Xperia V Cases by Noreve Saint-Tropez
You know, I have a hard time bringing you all news about iPad mini gear. Not because I don’t like telling you about Cool New Stuff; no, it’s because I really want an iPad mini (a lot), and I’m determined to not get one until they come with Retina screens, so I’m holding off. Also, [...]
Mobile Fun Samsung Galaxy S III Extended Battery Kit
If you have a smartphone other than one of the Droid Maxx devices, chances are you wish it had better battery life. And as they get more and more powerful we do more and more – so any gains in power efficiency are lost by greater usage! There are battery cases available that fully cover [...]
Incipio Holiday Sale Going On Now; Discounts Up To 60% Off and Free Shipping
Time is ticking down to the Big Present-giving Holiday, and unless you’ve finished your shopping, you’re probably getting close to panic time. So in the spirit of trying to help you all out, your friends here at Gear Diary bring you news of various sales and other holiday-related shopping tips, which hopefully help you get [...]
Sena Lusio Case for Samsung Galaxy S III Review
As I mentioned in my review, the Samsung Galaxy SIII is a sleek and slim device and it would be a shame to wrap it up in a bulky case. Well, apparently the folks at Sena feel the same way, since the new Lusio is a thin leather case for the Galaxy SIII that offers [...]
Element Releases the Atom Case for Samsung Galaxy S3
The Samsung Galaxy S III is a slick and sturdy phone, but no phone is indestructible – therefore we need cases. Element Case is known best as an iPhone case company, but as that market continues to get flooded with cheap imitators they have branched out and are now making a case for the Samsung [...]
Mophie Juice Pack for Samsung Galaxy SIII Hands-On Review
If there is one constant in life, it is that portable electronics don’t ever have enough battery life. With each new product we get new features that beg for more power, so regardless of what the manufacturers do to extend battery life … our usage always seems to keep up! Enter Mophie, a company that [...]
New USBFever Releases Include Fisheye + Wide Angle Telephoto Lens Combo for iPhone 5
I’ve mentioned my love of photographic gear many times before. One unfortunate outcome of the move to digital photography (in my opinion) is that cameras have gotten tinier and tinier, so when you starting hooking up your adaptive gear to them–telephoto lenses, zoom lenses, and the like–it can look pretty silly. Not unlike the new [...]
OtterBox Brings 24/7 Protection to DROID RAZR Devices by Motorola, Samsung Tab 2
True story: My Pop (my father-in-law, but since my dad passed away he’s the only Pop I got) accidentally dropped his iPhone–a present from Sami and I–out of his truck while he was away on a job. Using the iPhone “Find iPhone” utility, he was able to track it down. Where, miraculously, it was still [...]
Grace Digital Launches the gdock Speaker Dock for Samsung Galaxy Devices
One of the truisms of the ‘smartphone era’ of the last five or so years is that you can get pretty much any sort of accessory made to work with an iPhone, but have to hope that you can find ANYTHING that will work with other phones. Some phones such as the Motorola Droid or [...]
PowerSkin® Expands Suite of NFC-Enabled Battery Cases
One of the drags of modern smartphones is the fact that battery technology simply hasn’t kept up with a lot of other tech breakthroughs. Consider memory, for example. Back in the day, a 100 Megabyte hard drive could be a couple inches tall and half a foot long; now you can pack dozen of Gigabytes [...]
Use Protection with Heat Sensitive Rub & Reveal…Now for iPhone 5
All right, all right, have a chuckle. Get your sophomoric locker room humor out of your system. Take a deep breath. Better? Okay, for those able to stop channeling Beavis and Butthead, anokimobi has recently introduced their Heat Sensitive Rub and Reveal cases for the iPhone 5. The heat-sensitive cases are the first of their [...]






















