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You can always depend on iLuv to make snazzy new cases for the latest Appleproducts and now they have with their latest additions for the iPod Nano 5th generation.

The cases range from hard clear plastic to soft, but irregardless, they are all super stylish and the perfect new suit for your iPod Nano.

The designs are hip and trendy and will not only make your iPod Nano pop but protect it too. Some of the designs include the icc306 city series which has different cases for New York, London, Paris and Sydney.

Another series, the icc307, is covered in retro-style record players, headphones and speakers.  There is even the icc304 case designed as a camera to enhance the newest iPod Nano feature. The new iLuv cases for iPod Nano 5th gen retail anywhere from $19.99 to $24.99 respectively.

Is Apple's iPhone-without-a-phone the McDonald's Happy Meal of mobile communications? 

Peter Farago of the mobile analytics firm Flurry uses data from its November report to make the case that Apple (AAPL) is quietly — and successfully — using the iPod touch to lock in a loyal base of under-age users who will eventually become the next generation of iPhone buyers.

"While it is clear that the iPhone has significant short-term revenue value for Apple," he writes in a report issued Sunday, "Flurry believes that the iPod Touch holds more long-term strategic value for Steve Jobs and team."

"In terms of Life Stage Marketing," Farago writes, "the practice of appealing to different age-based segments, Apple is using the iPod Touch to build loyalty with pre-teens and teens, even before they have their own phones (think: McDonalds' Happy Meal marketing strategy). When today's young iPod Touch users age by five years, they will already have iTunes accounts, saved personal contacts to their iPod Touch devices, purchased hundreds of apps and songs, and mastered the iPhone OS user interface." (link)

The evidence that Apple's strategy is working, Farago says, can be seen in a graph of end-user sessions recorded over the past six months.

Flurry, according to Farago, tracks 15 million end-user sessions every day from its "analytics solution" code embedded in 3,000 applications on 4 platforms: Apple's iPhone OS ( both iPhone and iPod Touch), Research in Motion's (RIMM) Blackberry, JavaME and Google (GOOG) Android.

The graph above shows that the iPod touch's share of those user sessions has grown 4 points over the past six months — the same as Android despite starting from a much larger user base. While the iPhone continues to grow in user sessions, its share in Flurry's data has dropped from 57% to 50%.

Even more significant, according to Farago, is that kind of things the kids are doing with their iPod touches.

"Anecdotally," he writes, "we know the 'iPod Touch Generation' is made up of heavy MySpace, Facebook and SMS users, who voraciously share their lives with, and influence their ever-expanding social graph. Importantly, this also includes promoting products they like. Empirically, Flurry compared how iPod Touch session usage has changed over the last six months across key application categories important to this demographic; namely, Social Networking and Games."

Farago's empirical evidence is displayed in the two charts below, which show the iPod Touch growing faster than both the iPhone and the Android devices in Flurry's Social Networking and Games categories.

The world of iPhone/iPod gloves is starting to get more and more crowded.

A few weeks ago we posted about Dots Gloves, and before that we talked about TouchTec gloves, the premium brand of all touchscreen enabled gloves.

However, for those of you looking for another affordable option, check out Echo Touch gloves.

These gloves are available of both men and women, and they cost just $30.00a pair. But what makes them especially unique is that they come in a big selection of color choices.