Daily iPhone App: Boomtime Baseball reaches for baseball’s golden age + MORE iPhone News 10/04/2012

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Want to add some pizzazz to your iPhone 4/4S? There are plenty of options from popular case makers such as Griffin, Cellairis and the ever the ever-popular Otterbox. But if you want to truly stand out when you go for your phone, we’ve rounded up seven cases that will have those around you asking “where’d you get that case?”
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The iPhone’s support for Microsoft’s dominant email and calendaring Exchange platform is an essential part of iOS’s appeal to business users. Integrating MS’s ActiveSync mobile device connectivity into Apple’s gear, which started back with iPhone OS 2.0 in 2008, helped make the upstart smartphone into a viable alternative to the dominant BlackBerry ecosystem (and look how that worked out).

Unfortunately, ActiveSync has always been a mite quirky on iOS. While the core email sending and receiving functionality usually does as it should (with sustained support for push email a sometime exception), calendaring doesn’t always fare as well…

Apple says it makes the “the most environmentally responsible products in our industry,” and an independent study has backed up this claim. iFixit and Healthystuff.org dissected 36 smartphones and analyzed their chemical composition using X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. The study graded the phones based on the presence of known hazardous chemicals like bromine, mercury and lead.

Over the years, Apple has steadily improved its products moving from a “high concern” rating for the original iPhone to a “low concern” rating for the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5…

Honestly, baseball is probably the last thing I want to think about right now, given that my Cubs just finished the season with 101 excruciating losses. But if you still enjoy the crack of the bat against the ball, Boomtime Baseball (free) might work for you. While it has some issues, it will at least provide you with that great feeling of knocking baseballs around in a classic era.

Unfortunately, Boomtime Baseball doesn’t go for the whole game: It’s a series of minigames, most of which just involve you hitting pitches…