Cut & Paste Gets Friendly with the iPhone 3G

Although you might have wished so, Cut & Paste is not a new feature embedded by Apple in the iPhone 3G. It's a Japanese company that makes cases for various devices, and its latest products are two series of iPhone 3G cases.

Weirdly named "Phone Bubble 3G" and "Phone Cube 3G", the new set of cases are made of silicon, hence they should offer a high degree of protection for your beloved iPhone.

The Bubble cases feature a bubble-like design (obviously) and come in four colors: White, Pink, Orange and Blue. Any of the Bubble cases measures 19 grams and, besides making the iPhone 3G look a little bigger, it also makes it look like a pillow. This is funny.

The Cube cases weigh 21 grams each and come in even more color versions: Simple White, Simple Black, Black & White, Pink and Brown. Despite its name, the Cubes series of cases doesn't make the iPhone 3G look like a cube, but only like a fat(ter) handset with a cube-like pattern on it.

Any of the above-mentioned iPhone 3G cases will cost you 1,990 Japanese yen, about $19 or 12 Euros. To buy yourself a new bubbled or cubed iPhone 3G wrapper, you can visit Cut & Paste's website, at this address for the first series of cases, or at this address for the second one. I'm not sure whether they ship their products outside Japan though, but you can surely ask them to.

Launched in Japan on July 11, the iPhone 3G gathered more than 1,500 Japanese users in front of the first store to sell it. The new touchscreen handset is exclusively offered in Japan by SoftBank, the third largest mobile carrier in the country, for prices starting at 23,000 yen (almost $220) with a contract agreement for two years and a pretty expensive data plan.