Does your iPhone case match your outfit? I mean really match it? It can, now that case-maker Griffin has partnered with clothing co-op Threadless.

The first offering of this team-up is a slim polycarbonate iPhone case featuring one of two original Threadless images: clouds within the thunder and birds of a feather (shown). Both the shirt and the cases are limited runs, so if you love them, you'd better hurry. The cases go for $34.99 each.

More case designs and other accessories will follow from the partnership. At Threadless, the customers are the designers: Designs are submitted by a worldwide community of artists, and one million site members vote on which images will be made into T-shirts.

"I've been a fan of Threadless ever since my first visit to their retail store in Chicago," said Mark McGlon, visual brand coordinator at Griffin Technology. "I saw immediately, from their layout and presentation, that their shirt designs would be a perfect match for our accessories."

If a purported flyer is true, then Apple may be gearing up for some pretty significant discounts for Black Friday.

The deals, leaked to The Boy Genius Report,  claim that Apple will discount all Macs by up to 25 percent, all iPods (excluding the iPhone and Shuffle, but not the touch) by 30 percent, and all accessories by up to 15 percent.

We've put in a request to Apple for comment, and will update this post if and when we hear from them.

Apple's 2008 Black Friday discounts included $101 off of the 13-inch MacBook and just $11 to $21 off of selected iPods, which would imply that the more substantial discounts are bogus. But maybe this year Apple will be a bit more recession-friendly.

Motorola's Droid is not an iPhone-killer, but it will advance the use and adoption of web content on connected devices, according to Wednesday data from Nielsen.

With only 10,000 applications in the Android Market compared to about 100,000 on iTunes, "the Droid - or any Android phone - won't be killing the iPhone anytime soon," Nielsen wrote in a blog post.

However, Android's integration with popular and widespread Google apps like Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Voice will help with its popularity, as will Android's ability to run multiple applications, Nielsen said.

"Most users do this on their computers so being able to listen to music while browsing the web and sending email makes a multi-tasking smartphone an appealing option," the analyst firm concluded.

Nielsen believes that by mid-2011, about 50 percent of all phones sold will be smartphones, or roughly 150 million users.

"This shift could happen much faster with the right conditions such as continued competitive price points on devices, lower 'all you can eat' data packages and the increasing consumers need to be connected anytime, anywhere," they said.

If you purchase an Android phone, Nielsen finds that "you'll likely use more of the data features more often than if using any other smartphone."

RadioShack (or should I say, the Shack?) has entered into a deal with Apple that will allow the electronics chain to begin selling the iPhone nationwide next year. Select locations are getting a jump on the action, stocking the iPhone 3G and 3Gs this month.

Wal-mart and Best Buy already stock the handset, but news of the deal still caused a jump in the RadioShack's market outlook. Note that this isn't the first deal between Apple and RadioShack. The chain has been carrying iPods since 2005.

A hacker has made good on Apple's warnings about security issues on jailbroken iPhones: Owners of infected handsets are greeted by a new wallpaper featuring the image of 80s pop star Rick Astley and the message, "ikee is never gonna give you up." iPhone owners, you've just been Rickrolled.

The worm reportedly doesn't do anything malicious--well, nothing more malicious than resurrecting an old 4chan prank. Of course, this may well just be a proof of concept hack from its programmer; the door to more malicious attacks, it seems, is now wide open.

Quirky, the site that makes and sells the best of its community-developed concepts, just posted another why-didn't-I-think-of-that product in the beamer: It's an iPhone case that lights up to illuminate your phonecam photo subjects or just to help you find stuff in the dark. Press the button once for 10 seconds of LED light, twice to keep it on till you turn it off. The replaceable coin-cell battery is rated to last for 10 hours.

The case itself is hard plastic and comes in "one of Quirky's funky case colors," apparently including pink or black. If you want a beamer, get over to the presale at the site and "commit" to buying one for $32; when 500 people have committed, the case will be manufactured and shipped to buyers.

The iPhone has arrived in China for the first time on China Unicom--but with a twist.

The Chinese government had initially insisted Apple remove Wi-Fi functionality from the device. By the time the government changed its mind earlier this year, the iPhone had already gone into production, as MacRumors reports.

As a result, the iPhone doesn't have it on its introduction. It also comes in at a high price of $730 to $1025 (when converted from yuan to U.S. dollars), which is 20 percent higher than what unlocked iPhone 3GS models with Wi-Fi are selling for in Chinese street markets.

The Apple Store's dirty little secret? Its employees are using Windows-based PDA handhelds to help you out with your purchases. That may well change this holiday season, however. The company is reportedly transitioning its stores to an "EasyPay" checkout system comprised of an iPod Touch, credit card reader, and barcode scanner.

Apple has apparently already begun the transition--rolling the devices out in its Santa Clara-based Valley Fair Mall location, which, as Apple Insider points out, is the closest store to Cupertino.

In addition to revamping its MacBook line Tuesday, Apple also unveiled a new remote for the iPhone, iPod, or Mac as well as upgrades to the AirPort Extreme Base Station and Time Capsule.

The Apple Remote will allow users to control an iPod that is connected to a home stereo, powered speakers, or TV set, provided you have an iPod Universal Dock, an iPod with a dock connector, or any iPhone.

"Ready to move on to the next song? No need to get up. Just press the Next button on the Apple Remote. Getting a call on your iPhone? Press Pause, then pick up where you left off," Apple said on its Web site.

The remote is also compatible with any Mac introduced in 2005 or later that has a built-in infrared receiver. "When you press the Menu button, your desktop fades and the sleek Front Row interface takes its place to give you control over your music in iTunes, your photos in iPhoto, the videos in your Movies folder, and your DVDs," Apple said.

The remote retails for $19.

Meanwhile, Apple has made improvements in antenna design on the AirPort Extreme Base Station. The upgrades will provide up to 50 percent better performance and up to 25 percent better range than previous base stations, Apple said. The device will run you $179.

Finally, the $299 Time Capsule now includes new technologies and refinements intended to make backing up the device in Snow Leopard 60 percent faster than before.

Apple will open its fourteenth retail store in New York on Saturday, October 17, in Manhasset. The store will open its doors at 10 A.M., and the first 1,000 visitors will receive an Apple t-shirt, according to an e-mail from Apple.

The Apple Store Manhasset will be located at 1900 Northern Boulevard, on the North Shore of Long Island, about 15 miles east of La Guardia International Airport.

Other stores in NY include those in Albany, Buffalo, Garden City, Huntington Station, Lake Grove, Staten Island, Syracuse, Victor, West Nyack, and White Plains, and three stores in Manhattan.

TomTom's Car Kit for iPhone has returned to the UK Apple Store, according to Engadget, with a shipping time of 1-2 weeks. That means it's probably going to hit the U.S. very soon.

Should you be excited? I wouldn't be. There was plenty of back and forth over just what TomTom was including in the package. Unfortunately, it turns out not much, as a disclaimer now spells out quite clearly on the UK store site:

The TomTom app for iPhone is not included with the TomTom Car Kit. The Car Kit dock is compatible with all iPhone models, but the TomTom app only works with iPhone 3GS and iPhone 3G.

In other words, it's a mount and a speaker for $120. Add $100 for the TomTom iPhone app, and you could buy yourself a better-performing, Editors' Choice-winning, 3.5-inch TomTom One 140-S with almost a hundred bucks left over.

It's getting cold outside, and soon your nimble fingers will be covered in warm, snuggly gloves that keep your digits warm but make it virtually impossible to navigate your iPhone. In fact, any capacitive touch-screen is pretty much beyond your reach (resistive works fine, thank you very much).

So you take off a glove and live with the cold, so you can touch your iPhone and virtually any one of the other 400 million capacitive touch screen devices you encounter--ATMs, gas stations, checkout counters, and the like.

On the other hand, you could simply use TouchTec's new nano-technology-impregnated gloves and never remove them for a touch screen again (unless you want to). Check out my "hands-in" report in the video; more details after the jump.

Have a moment of pity for AT&T. It's a well-known fact that the iPhone completely norked their data network, with iPhone users sucking down megabytes in some major metros until AT&T's pipes ran dry. How sharp was the data uptake? Take a gander at this chart from AT&T CTO John Donovan's CTIA show keynote this morning. (Click on the graphic to see a larger version.)

Over the past two and a half years, demand for data on AT&T's network has increased 18 times, he said. Donovan tried to avoid blaming the iPhone for all of the data traffic - he called out other "smart integrated devices" as well. But it would be interesting to see the same chart from the other three major carriers; I'd guess that the line isn't quite as sharp.

Following the lead of Orange and Vodafone in the UK, a second Canadian wireless carrier is set to get its hands on the iPhone. Bell Canada will join Rogers Communications in carrying the popular handset, breaking that carrier's exclusive contract with Apple.

Bell is set to begin selling the phone next month, utilizing its new $1 billion wireless network. Does this signal the coming of a similar move in the US? Fingers crossed.