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iLounge is pleased to announce the Fanny Wang Headphone Giveaway. In our Giveaway of the Month for August, iLounge and Fanny Wang are giving away two pairs of Black & White DJ Over Ear Wangs Tuxedo Headphones. To enter, simply fill out and submit the form on the giveaway page—the giveaway will end on August 31, 2011 at 11:59PM Pacific Time. Good luck!

The latest edition of iLounge Weekly, our weekly newsletter covering all things iLounge, will be arriving in subscribers’ inboxes Monday morning. iLounge Weekly is a summary of the week’s best news, reviews, and feature articles we’ve published, and it also features giveaways and accessory discount offers from various companies. There’s still plenty of time to sign up and receive this week’s edition — just use the simple form below to submit your email address, if you haven’t done so already.

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With over 1,000 responses from iLounge readers, our most recent poll—“Are you planning to sign up for iTunes Match?”—has ended. Options were given for readers who are going to give the service a try, use a competing service, aren’t interested in cloud music services, would use it if it were available in their area, or don’t own an iOS device.

Nearly half of readers—46 percent—said they plan on giving iTunes Match a try, followed fairly closely by the 38 percent of readers who said they aren’t interested in cloud music services. Six percent of readers said they were waiting for a more sophisticated option, five percent said they would sign up if iTunes Match were available where they live, three percent said they plan on using a competing service, and two percent said they don’t own an iOS device. Thanks for all your votes!

Our new poll focuses on cellular data usage. Given the rise of speed throttling by carriers on customers who heavily take advantage of “unlimited” data plans, we’d like to know how much data you normally use in a month on your iPhone or iPad. Do you use less than 250MB, more than that but less than 500MB, between half and a full GB, between one and two GB, between two and five GB, or more than five? Our new poll, “How much cellular data do you normally use in a month on your iPhone/iPad?” lets you answer that question. As always, you can find the iLounge Poll in the left hand column of the main iLounge.com home page. Cast your vote today!

If you haven’t yet entered our PhoneSuit Elite Battery Case Giveaway, this is your last weekend to do so. In our Giveaway of the Month for July, iLounge and PhoneSuit are giving away 10 PhoneSuit Elite Battery Cases for iPhone 4. To enter, simply fill out and submit the form on the giveaway page—the giveaway will end on July 31, 2011 at 11:59PM Pacific Time. Good luck!

This week’s featured photo is from our iPhones Around the World gallery, and shows an iPhone 4 on the shores of Jackson Lake overlooking Great Teton in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. To share your photos and to be considered for our Photo of the Week, you simply need to submit your own photo to one of our galleries. So get out there, take some pictures featuring your favorite iPod, iPad, or iPhone and maybe your submission will be our next Photo of the Week!

This week’s featured photo is from our iPhones Around the World gallery, and shows an iPhone 4 overlooking the Great Wall of China. To share your photos and to be considered for our Photo of the Week, you simply need to submit your own photo to one of our galleries. So get out there, take some pictures featuring your favorite iPod, iPad, or iPhone and maybe your submission will be our next Photo of the Week!

The latest edition of iLounge Weekly, our weekly newsletter covering all things iLounge, will be arriving in subscribers’ inboxes Monday morning. iLounge Weekly is a summary of the week’s best news, reviews, and feature articles we’ve published, and it also features giveaways and accessory discount offers from various companies. There’s still plenty of time to sign up and receive this week’s edition — just use the simple form below to submit your email address, if you haven’t done so already.

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With over 2,100 votes from iLounge readers, our latest poll—“Which feature would you most like to see in iOS 5?”—has ended. Readers were given the choice between a new Notifications system, Home screen widgets, wireless syncing, backups, and updates, a redesigned Home screen, expanded background app and/or multitasking support, a common file system, haptic feedback, or some other feature or improvement.

As it turns out, the two most popular options—wireless features and a revamped Notification system—were included when Apple previewed the upcoming release. 33 percent of respondents said they most wanted to see wireless syncing, backups, and updates, followed by 24 percent who wanted a new Notifications system. 11 percent said they wanted Home screen widgets—a feature which didn’t appear in full, but was implemented in highly limited fashion in the new Notifications Center—followed by nine percent who wanted a redesigned Home screen, seven percent who wanted either a common file system or some other feature or improvement, six percent who wanted expanded background app and/or multitasking support, and two percent who wanted Apple to integrate haptic feedback into the OS. Thanks for all your votes!

Our new poll focuses on Apple’s upcoming iTunes Match service. We’d like to know if you’re planning on signing up when it becomes available this fall. Are you going to try it out, or are you currently using or planning to use a competing service, or are you holding out for a better option? Or do cloud music offerings not interest you, or would you be interested, if only it were available where you live, or do you not own an iOS device? Our new poll—“Are you planning to sign up for iTunes Match?”—lets you answer that question. You can find the iLounge Poll in the left hand column of the main iLounge.com home page. Cast your vote today!

iLounge is pleased to announce the PhoneSuit Elite Battery Case Giveaway. In our Giveaway of the Month for July, iLounge and PhoneSuit are giving away 10 PhoneSuit Elite Battery Cases for iPhone 4. To enter, simply fill out and submit the form on the giveaway page—the giveaway will end on July 31, 2011 at 11:59PM Pacific Time. Good luck!

This week’s featured photo is from our iPhones Around the World gallery, and shows an iPhone in front of Tōdai-ji’s Great Buddha Hall, the largest wooden building in the world, located in Nara, Japan. To share your photos and to be considered for our Photo of the Week, you simply need to submit your own photo to one of our galleries. So get out there, take some pictures featuring your favorite iPod, iPad, or iPhone and maybe your submission will be our next Photo of the Week!

As our U.S.-based editors are celebrating Independence Day with our families, iLounge will be on a limited publishing schedule today, July 4, 2011. Happy Fourth of July to our U.S. readers—we’ll be back in full force tomorrow!

If you haven’t yet entered our Luxa2 iPad Stand Giveaway, today is your last chance. In our Giveaway of the Month for June, iLounge and Luxa2 are giving away 30 Luxa2 H4 iPad Stands. To enter, simply fill out and submit the form on the giveaway page—the giveaway will end on tonight at 11:59PM Pacific Time. Good luck!

In honor of the fourth anniversary of the device’s release, today’s classic image from our iPhones Around the World archive shows a first-generation iPhone in front of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia.

We’re looking for your great iPhone, iPod, and iPad images to add to our galleries! Summertime shots and anything else you might be able to contribute would be appreciated! So get out there, take some pictures featuring your favorite iPod, iPhone, or iPad, and maybe your submission will be our next Photo of the Week!

iLounge has posted its first gallery of accessories and other products on display at the iLounge + NYC area of CE Week’s CEA Line Shows, including products from iHome, Speck, and more. To see all the photos, visit our Flickr photostream.

The latest edition of iLounge Weekly, our weekly newsletter covering all things iLounge, will be arriving in subscribers’ inboxes Monday morning. iLounge Weekly is a summary of the week’s best news, reviews, and feature articles we’ve published, and it also features giveaways and accessory discount offers from various companies. There’s still plenty of time to sign up and receive this week’s edition — just use the simple form below to submit your email address, if you haven’t done so already.

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Also, don’t forget to enter our Luxa2 iPad Stand Giveaway. In our Giveaway of the Month for June, iLounge and Luxa2 are giving away 30 Luxa2 H4 iPad Stands. To enter, simply fill out and submit the form on the giveaway page—the giveaway will end on June 30, 2011 at 11:59PM Pacific Time. Good luck!

iLounge is pleased to announce the winners of our iPad 2 Buyers’ Guide Top Tweeter Contest. Our two Grand Prize winners are FaresF (Farès Fayad) and DinaJ (Dina L), each of whom will receive a Bowers & Wilkins Zeppelin Air sound system. Our two First Place winners, craigt44 (Craig Thornton) and msmorev (Maureen) will receive Bowers & Wilkins MM-1 multimedia speaker systems, while our Second Place winners—mitchg (Mitch Gurowitz) and tannawings (Ellen Beck) will receive Zeppelin Mini systems, all courtesy of Bowers & Wilkins. Congratulations to our winners and thanks to everyone who entered, and if you haven’t already, be sure to grab a free copy of our iPad 2 Buyers’ Guide!

If you haven’t yet entered our iPad 2 Buyers’ Guide Top Tweeter Contest, today is your last chance to do so. In the contest, iLounge and Bowers & Wilkins are giving away two Zeppelin Air systems to the Grand Prize winners, two MM-1 speaker systems to our First Prize winners, and two Zeppelin Mini systems to our Second Prize winners. To enter, simply post the following tweet on Twitter: “Grab the amazing @iLounge iPad 2 Buyers’ Guide + tweet this link for a shot at six Bowers & Wilkins speakers! http://t.co/5Z5bpb5” or retweet this linked message to your followers. We’ll look for the top tweeters/retweeters—based on the number and positive influence of retweets—and pick two winners for each of the three speakers above. The contest ends tonight at 11:59PM Pacific Time, so get to Tweeting, and good luck!

The Consumer Electronics Association will hold its CE Week 2011 event next week in New York City, and iLounge will be on hand to provide coverage. As part of the event, there will be a special iLounge + NYC section of CE Week’s Line Shows dedicated to products for the iPod, iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and will feature Summer/Fall 2011 lineup unveilings from various companies including iHome, Incipio, Monster, and Scosche. CE Week 2011 runs from June 20-25, while the Line Shows will be held June 22-23 at 7 West 34th Street. We look forward to showing you what’s new in the Apple accessory world, live from the show!

iLounge’s editors are on-site at Moscone West in San Francisco, site of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference. The event will kick off with a keynote address from Apple CEO Steve Jobs and other Apple executives beginning at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time/1:00 p.m. Eastern Time today. During the address, Apple will be discussing Mac OS X Lion, iOS 5, and its new iCloud service. As with past live events, we’ll be switching over to our optimized Live.iLounge.com page right before the event begins, and will also host a separate chat room for reader discussions of the announcements as they happen. Stay tuned!

The latest edition of iLounge Weekly, our weekly newsletter covering all things iLounge, will be arriving in subscribers’ inboxes Monday morning. iLounge Weekly is a summary of the week’s best news, reviews, and feature articles we’ve published, and it also features giveaways and accessory discount offers from various companies. There’s still plenty of time to sign up and receive this week’s edition — just use the simple form below to submit your email address, if you haven’t done so already.

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