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Dieter’s at the IFA show in Berlin, Germany and he’s scored us a first look at mophie’s upcoming juice pack air for iPhone 4. It’s got soft touch paint and they claim ZERO signal degredation because the entire PCB board is on the bottom, so there are no electronics around the antenna. It’s shipping to Apple now and will be available in “Nationwide retailers” next week for $79.95.

Mophie Juice Pack air for iPhone 4 comes in black, white, red, and green and “virtually doubles your power”. 6 hours talk time, 5 hours internet 3G, and 9 hours on wifi courtesy of a 1500mAh battery. It also sports pass-through USB for power, iTunes sync, and can be switched off when not in use.

What Dieter saw was prototype hardware, but felt very thin and good to him, especially the soft touch finish.

Also being shown off was the juice pack power station, which sports 2.1 Amp output so it can power an iPad. This one rates 3600 mAh and has a USB cable included to charge it. And the Marketplace, which we saw an early version of back at Macworld, is now ramped up with Intuit GoPayment and is available now for $179.95 plus GoPayment service.

Hands-on photos after the break!

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Once again Steve Jobs put sneaker to stage and at the Apple Special Music Event 2010 wowed the crowed with new gorgeous new hardware, stunning new software, and… services of a sort. The big stories were iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2, the new iPod touch, iPod nano, and Apple TV, and iTunes 10 with its Ping music social network, and of course, what we didn’t get.

The full story… well, here it is in handy bullet-point form.

Event coverage

• Apple Special Music Event 2010 streaming video
• Apple Special Music Event — Watch along with TiPb! (Live blog)
• Poll: What did you like (or not like) about Apple’s 2010 iTunes/iPod event?
• Apple special music event – what we didn’t get

iOS 4.1 and iOS 4.2

• iOS 4.2 coming soon for iPad… and iPhone
• iOS 4.1 for iPhone, iPod touch next week, iOS 4.2 for iPad in November
• iOS 4.1 to fix proximity sensor, Bluetooth, and iPhone 3G performance bugs
• iOS 4.1 Gold Master now available to developers
• 120,000,000 iOS devices sold, 250,000 apps, 6.5 billion downloads – by the numbers
• Steve Jobs: 230,000 iOS activations a day, not counting upgrades like Google. Google responds.

New iPod touch, iPod nano, Apple TV

• Apple releases new iPod touch, iPod nano commercials
• Apple introduces iPod touch with Retina Display, FaceTime, HD Video
• Apple introduces tiny, iPhone-like multitouch iPod nano
• New Apple TV, 1/4 the size, streaming only, rental only, Netflix, $99
• Apple TV has A4 chip, iOS, so where are the apps, games, a web browser?

Epic gaming

• Epic Citadel for iPhone, iPad demo now in App Store
• Steve Jobs: iPod touch more popular than Nintendo DS and Sony PSP combined

iTunes 10 and Ping social music network

• Apple introduces iTunes 10 with new icon, streamlined UI, Ping social network
• iOS 4 Ping social music network gallery
• iTunes 10 Ping social music network gallery

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If Steve Jobs announced that iOS 4.2 would be coming to iPhone during his keynote a the special music event yesterday, I missed it, but that’s what Apple.com’s new preview page says:

Look for iOS 4.2 coming in November for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.1

(That footnote reads “not compatible with all models” so likely iPhone 2G and iPod touch G1 miss out again).

What will distinguish iOS 4.2 on iPhone from iOS 4.1? Only a few things leap out at me:

• Wireless printing, so we can shoot docs from our iOS device to a receptive paper printer. (Not word on compatibility requirements yet though).

• AirPlay, which takes AirTunes to another level with streaming video and pictures, and should let us beam content from iPhone or iPod touch to the new Apple TV. (Perfect to take a movie to friends or family).

• Find text on web page, finally. In Safari, easily search for and highlight specific words and phrases.

Most importantly, does this mean we’ll finally see Grand Unification of iOS in our lifetimes? Have the forces of fracture failed? Developers will hopefully find out soon. Consumers get it in November.

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