On Friday, Steve Jobs announced that Apple will be giving anyone is buying or has bought an iPhone 4 a complimentary case. Buyers can choose the bumper or a variety of other cases sold by other vendors through Apple. What if you've already bought the bumper? Well, no worries there, Jobs mentioned those individuals who already purchased a bumper can get a full refund! This is a big move for Apple because they have acknowledged that this is, in fact, an issue. Jobs also went on to provide data and demonstrations using a few other phones to show that this problem isn't isolated only to the iPhone 4 and that the issue was being blown out of proportion.
when companies get big, people want to tear them down. I've seen it happen to Google...and now I've seen some of those people jumping on us."Like I said, this was a big, and important, move that Apple has made and it will only help put this behind them. Kudos to Jobs and Apple for taking the issue on as opposed to sweeping it under the rug.
I'm a little excited about this next bit of news and I have to thank engadget for breaking this one. So, as some of you might know, Verizon has been testing their LTE network (changing to SIM cards and 4g) for quite some time now and has plans to service around 30 Cities by the end of the year. Well, the boys and girls at engadget have got their hands on some documents showing that Verizon computers are being fitted for their LTE SIM cards.
Verizon has mentioned in the past that they will be rolling out data-only related products (Aircards, USB data sticks) for LTE first with smartphones roughly a quarter behind. The projected time period for smartphones on LTE is the first half of 2011 and there are rumors circling that Verizon will be selling a bunch of LTE compatible phones on Black Friday (November 26th, my birthday =D) of this year. Below are the photos engadget received.
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A lot of companies that said they have 4g networks r full of BS. i mean they do have it, but they only run 3g on the 4g network because they dont have the technology yet to lunch full 4g. just so people know companies like sprint, verizon and AT&T r estimated to run full 4g by 2012.
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ReplyDeleteCompanies like AT&T and Verizon have been testing their 4G networks for close to, if not over, two years. Verizon specifically has done the bulk of its testing in Seattle and Boston (as mentioned above)and technically you're right "they don't have the technology yet to launch full 4g", they have been testing on a handful of protoypes. BUT that's only because over the next year and a half to two years Verizon will be implementing its new LTE technology which means a complete switch to GSM (much like AT&T and T-Mobile) and it will be on this network that 4G will be hosted. Like they said, it will be a while until they are able to run 4G on all smartphones and their priorities are aircards, data sticks, etc. first, smartphones second.
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