Irvine’s Ultimate Ears announced today its first voice-integrated product, earphones designed to work with the iPhone.

The$149.99 super.fi 4 vi earphones in “gunmetal silver” (at left) can be used, like all other earphones designed for the iPhone, to answer a call with music fading in and out just for the phone call. A pause button on the phones also allows users to pause media programs like YouTube and iTunes, skip through songs and answer or end calls.

Another Irvine company, Iophase Inc., this week announced a new version of its e-mail security product, Advanced Email Scrubbing 2.0. The program works to keep spam and viruses away from users and the update includes an updated interface and the ability to automatically find and quarantine spam that the user can still choose to retrieve. The program is priced on a domain basis, with $22.95 per domain and 20 cents for each user.

And the third Irvine company to release news this week was Atlus, USA, which announced Thursday a new game, Drone Tactics, for the Nintendo DS coming out March 25. Players create and command an army of drones fighting against the Black Swarm army.

The final O.C. gadget this week is from BenQ, with United States headquarters in Irvine. They announced Monday a new class of laptops — the dual-screened Joybook Q41. The laptop is the first to offer VoIP (voice over internet protocol) functionality — allowing users to make calls over the Internet right from an auxiliary display. The laptop also has a 14.1-inch UltraVivid widescreen, a 2.5-inch auxiliary display, a Intel Core2 Duo processor and Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.