In Silicon Valley, a retail store as product laboratory

Smartphone and laptop case and cover maker Speck opened its first retail store in Silicon Valley Thursday night. (Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET) PALO ALTO, Calif.–It’s hard to imagine a larger collection of iPhones in one place outside of an Apple store than were in evidence Thursday in this heart-of-Silicon Valley city. It wasn’t one of Apple’s famous …