The Portenzo Case Gives Your iPhone and iPad a Leather-bound Luxurious Look

Now available in Hong Kong from Cases-n-Things.com.

If you’re looking for a case as luxurious as your Apple iPad needs – then you’re looking for the new Portenzo cases – now available in Hong Kong.

At first look they make your iPhone and iPad look like a Moleskine-type notebook. These handcrafted cases are really something special – and you can’t get them in any store in Hong Kong, they are only available online.

Not only do we have an interview with Cases-n-Things.com the exclusive importer in Hong Kong – we’re going to give you 10% off as well:

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The 25 Billionth iOS App was Downloaded by an iPhone in Qingdao

No more free apps for this iPhanatic!

Apple just recently hit their 25 BILLIONTH app download worldwide!

Truly an amazing number to hit – it covers all iPhone, iPod, iPad apps free and paid from users all over the world ( in context the App Store offers more than 550,000 apps to iPhone, iPad and iPod touch users in 123 countries around the world, with more than 170,000 native iPad apps available) and the lucky person to download the free app Where’s the Water was Chunli Fu in Qingdao, China who won a US$10,000 iTunes gift card! No more free apps for her and now we know some people in China actually use the App Store and not only some jailbreak version.

In other interesting China iPhone news – it was revealed today that China Mobile has 15 million iPhones on their network (60 million more projected by 2013) which is amazing for 2 reasons:

1. China Mobile isn’t even officially an iPhone carrier.
2. Sprint in the U.S. just made it to 1 MILLION iPhone users.

Sure we can make jokes that all those iPhone’s are from the IFC Mall Apple Store, but it’s truly astounding when you look at this story posted 24 months ago.

And lastly, tomorrow night Hong Kong time Apple will be introducing the new version of their iPad (rumored to be the iPad HD) and a new Apple TV plus something else – we hope Tim Cook continues the “One More Thing” tradition too! See you back here tomorrow for a rundown of the new Apple goodies.

‘Viddy’ is Super Popular in Hong Kong Thanks to Janice Man, AngelaBaby, and of course, Edison

Now you can follow your fave HK stars on your iPhone.

Check this out iPhone fans: Viddy has been installed over 100,000 times in Hong Kong – in just 9 days.

Just like Twitter and Sina Weibo, fans are rushing to get the new video app in order to view personal videos uploaded by local celebrities such as Angelababy, Cecilia Pak Chi Cheung, Ella Koon, Edison Chen and his rumored new girlfriend Janice Man.

Today, the most popular entertainment industry stars on Viddy are Ella Koon (17 videos; 30,000+ followers); Angelababy (18 videos; 27,000+ followers); Cecilia Pak Chi Cheung (6 videos; 23,000+ followers); Janice Man (6 videos; 21,000+ followers); and Edison Chen (40 videos; 40,000+ followers).

Basically, it’s the same as Instragram – only for video! You have 15 seconds to film something and then Viddy can add cool filters and music to make those seconds seem like it was produced by a Hollywood effects team – and then most impotantly it shares it to a video consuming community that can “like” it, comment on it or share it to their social networks like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

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Openbar Gets You Drink Deals and Even Helps You Get Home in Hong Kong

Don’t go out drinking tonight without this app!

Openbar is a new app for iPhone that will bring you the best deals on drinking in Hong Kong.

Your iPhone will now be able to tell you where all the Happy Hours are with its GPS map and give you coupons, event guides, friend locator and probably the most important feature that any expat would kill for: English and Chinese addresses to use with taxi drivers!

Do we need to say more before you download it here?

The Neonpunch iPhone 4S Review

The 4S is available on Friday – should you buy one?

Open the pod bay doors Siri, the iPhone 4S is coming!

The latest and greatest iPhone from Apple is a mere 48 hours away from being made officially available in Hong Kong and we were able to get our hands on one so we could get one to give you our initial thoughts.

The biggest thing people say is that the 4S doesn’t look any different from the iPhone 4 – which is absolutely true; but who cares? The iPhone 4 design is pure, sleek sophistication, and should be enjoyed as long as possible – so while the physical similarities are minuscule everything “under the hood” is different and makes it a must buy for power iPhone users (i.e. anyone with more than 3 pages of apps).

If you are thinking of upgrading from iPhone 4 (older iPhone users MUST upgrade) the 3 key upgrades that will make you want to get a 4S are:

1. Speed
2. Camera
3. Siri

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