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Twelve South made a travel case for Apple Watch you’ll actually want to use

Twelve South, who concentrate its efforts on making accessories for Apple’s various devices, has unveiled the TimePorter travel case for Apple Watch.

Its main purpose is cord management, as the interior has bumpers you can wrap a cord around and a cutout in the lid for the magnetic charging base. The lid also acts as a charging dock, but doesn’t look great for use in Nightstand mode — even though you should probably be wearing your watch to bed anyway.

There’s also a place to store an extra wrist band, which is nice if you want to accessorize or just keep an extra band with you for working out.

Though Twelve South doesn’t specifically mention as much, it looks like the interior is roomy enough to put the actual watch in for those times you’re making your way through TSA checkpoints.

If you’re interested, TimePorter will be available this May in white or black, and retail for $49.99.

Is it just me or do the leaked HTC 10 images look quite a lot like an old iPhone?

While I’m never all that keen on paying too much attention to leaked images of upcoming devices, I found it difficult not to think of the early generations of iPhone – something between iPhone 3G and iPhone 5.

Yes, it’s obviously a little taller overall (as phones have grown over the years), but there’s a striking similarity for me between the leaked images from Evan Blass (AKA. ‘ @EvLeaks ‘) and the venerable Apple devices.

Of course, the home button is a little different but the overall look is pretty darn similar – and don’t go saying all black rectangles obviously look the same, small manufacturers like Nextbit are managing to make handsets stand out from the crowd , so it is possible to use run with a completely different design.

Admittedly, the angular edge and rear would be different to the rounded curves of the earlier generation iPhones – had it kept the curved rear of the previous M8 and M9 models, it would look even more like one though.

Don’t misunderstand, I like HTC’s handsets. The last phone I handed over money for was an HTC. I just hope that the images aren’t representative of the finished product. Obviously with leaked images, I’m drawing no conclusions just yet.

It’s just not the first time I’ve wondered if HTC is losing its identity as it scrambles to turn around its handset business – namely flagship models failing to live up to sales expectations .

While its smartphone efforts have been lauded by critics but commercially questionable performers, the company is now looking to diversify into new areas, such as VR with the HTC Vive. Perhaps that’s its future.

Or perhaps it really looks nothing like an iPhone at all, everything is A-OK at HTC and it’s all in my imagination – I did think the HTC One A9 looked like a new iPhone , but now its next flagship looks like an old one.

With LG pushing a modular approach on the G5 and Samsung delivering a whole lot of features for power users , HTC will have a battle on its hands whatever the final specs and features are.

I just worry that perhaps the HTC 10 might fail to stand out in such a crowded market.

Once again, I can only hope I’m proved wrong when the rumored launch comes around next month.

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