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Existing customers can preorder their iPhone 4s at 3 a.m. February 3.

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Verizon has updated its iPhone landing page to include a countdown and a message for existing customers to come back to the site, presumably to preorder the
iPhone.

In true Apple fashion (adding a countdown), when the numbers reach zero, a day that’s been in the making for more than four years will finally commence. Almost immediately after Apple’s announcement of its exclusivity deal with ATT, rumors of Verizon’s entrance as an iPhone vendor surfaced.

Now, on February 3, those loyal customers who have been holding out, ignoring the iPhone’s siren song (something that most likely sounds like Jack Johnson or John Mayer), will have the opportunity to place their iPhone order, ending ATT’s stranglehold on the U.S. iPhone market.

Existing customers will be able to preorder their iPhone 4 (in black only) as a 16GB ($199) or a 32GB ($299) model–with a two-year contract, of course. The
Verizon iPhone will officially debut February 10, just in time for a perfect Valentine’s Day gift.

Are you an existing Verizon customer planning to preorder your iPhone? Let me know in the comments!

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Apple Inc.‘s iPad retained its dominant market share in tablet devices in the fourth quarter but Google Inc.‘s Android is gaining fast, according to a report released Monday.

The main driver for that growth was Samsung Electronics Co.‘s Galaxy Tab, the research firm said.

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Android Becomes Best-Selling Smartphone, Serious iPad Challenger

Google’s Android is now the top smartphone platform in the world. Meanwhile, Android has seriously cut into Apple’s domination of the tablet computer market.

For the fourth quarter of 2010, 32.9 million Android-based smartphones were sold worldwide, beating 31 million in sales of devices running on Nokia’s Symbian platform. However, Nokia remains the top global smartphone vendor, with a share of 28 percent, according to Canalys.

The amazing number in here is year-over-year growth: 615.1 percent from Q4 2009 to 2010, thanks in part to strong performance by vendors LG, Samsung, Acer and HTC. Meanwhile, Nokia’s share was devoured, falling from 44.4 percent in Q4 2009 to 30.6 percent in Q4 2010.

Android also dominated in the U.S., with 12.1 million sold in Q4, or nearly three times more than RIM’s BlackBerry devices.

However, the Verizon iPhone is coming soon, which could change the smartphone market landscape.

For global tablet computer sales, Android’s market share grew to 21.6 percent in Q4, up from 2.3 percent in the previous quarter. Apple’s market share was at 75.3 percent in Q4, down from 95.5 percent the previous quarter. Apple sold 7.3 million iOS devices worldwide, while Android sold 2.1 million, according to Strategy Analytics.

Android is expected to further slice into Apple’s tablet sales this year, in part because of lower prices.

Posted by Danny Goodwin on January 31, 2011 3:19 PM

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Last week during Macworld 2011 (formerly known as Macworld Expo) I spent a portion of my time standing in front of attendees demonstrating one thing or another on an iPad. Unlike other presentations that similarly projected images from an iPad, the images from my iPad were darned near pristine. This is the story of how I did it.

First, the backstory: In years past, when Ben Long and I have presented our iPhone Supersession, we used an Elmo projector system. This is essentially a camera that points down at a white base. You place the object you want to show on the base and its image is transmitted to a projector. Because only Apple had the secret for projecting an iPhone’s entire interface, mere mortals had to depend on the camera-to-projector solution, which is less than ideal because the image can be fuzzy.

This year, when planning our new iPad Supersession, I thought it would be worth exploring alternatives to the Elmo. If there was a way to hack the iPad so that it displayed the iPad’s entire interface (as this was something we intended to show to our audience) via a standard projector connection rather than Elmo, we’d be ahead of the game. I discovered that alternative in the form of a jailbroken iPad. Specifically, with the help of a tethered jailbreak, Apple’s $29 iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter, and Ryan Petrich’s $2 Display Out (available through the BigBoss Repository in Cydia), our audience enjoyed a crystal-clear view of my iPad. Here are the steps:

1. Understanding the jailbreak. There are two kinds of jailbreaks–tethered and untethered. A tethered jailbreak requires that you re-jailbreak your device every time you completely power it off or restart it. With an untethered jailbreak, the jailbreak will stick even after you’ve restarted the device.

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If you are a Verizon Wireless customer then you will be able to order the highly anticipated iPhone 4 on 3rd February at 3 AM ET. Verizon recently updated its iPhone information page which shows the time remaining until the exclusive opportunity for existing customers to pre-order iPhone 4.

Verizon is certainly expecting huge demand for Apple’s smartphone as it informed it’s customers via email that they will be able to order the phone from their “reserved quantity on a first-come, first-served basis”.

Apple has been rumored to be in talks with CDMA network providers in other countries who are willing to offer iPhone 4 on their network and we could expect more announcements regarding its availability soon.

Verizon certainly offers better coverage when compared with ATT, but one major drawback with CDMA technology is that it does not support data and voice connections simultaneously. However, this may change in future when LTE-based iPhone is launched which would obviously require hardware upgrade.

Are you excited about Verizon iPhone? Let us know what you think in the comments below.

You may be interested in the following related posts:

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4. Verizon iPhone 4 ‘Personal Hotspot’ To Cost Additional $20/Month
5. ATT CEO Predicts “Rocky” Time for Carrier Thanks to Verizon iPhone

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Top iPhone Game Apps: Updated Trenches Returns to Charts

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Last week during Macworld 2011 (formerly known as Macworld Expo) I spent a portion of my time standing in front of attendees demonstrating one thing or another on an iPad. Unlike other presentations that similarly projected images from an iPad, the images from my iPad were darned near pristine. This is the story of how I did it.

First, the backstory: In years past, when Ben Long and I have presented our iPhone Supersession, we used an Elmo projector system. This is essentially a camera that points down at a white base. You place the object you want to show on the base and its image is transmitted to a projector. Because only Apple had the secret for projecting an iPhone’s entire interface, mere mortals had to depend on the camera-to-projector solution, which is less than ideal because the image can be fuzzy.

This year, when planning our new iPad Supersession, I thought it would be worth exploring alternatives to the Elmo. If there was a way to hack the iPad so that it displayed the iPad’s entire interface (as this was something we intended to show to our audience) via a standard projector connection rather than Elmo, we’d be ahead of the game. I discovered that alternative in the form of a jailbroken iPad. Specifically, with the help of a tethered jailbreak, Apple’s $29 iPad Dock Connector to VGA Adapter, and Ryan Petrich’s $2 Display Out (available through the BigBoss Repository in Cydia), our audience enjoyed a crystal-clear view of my iPad. Here are the steps:

1. Understanding the jailbreak. There are two kinds of jailbreaks–tethered and untethered. A tethered jailbreak requires that you re-jailbreak your device every time you completely power it off or restart it. With an untethered jailbreak, the jailbreak will stick even after you’ve restarted the device. Obviously an untethered jailbreak is preferable, but currently the untethered jailbreak for iOS 4.2.1 is in beta. I wanted a reliable jailbreak and so chose to go with the tethered method.

2. Obtain the

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