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Will Verizon announce iphone 4 at CES 2011?

By Sean Sarian

Many are expecting an iphone 4G announcement from Verizon at the next CES 2011, in early January, which will be held in Las Vegas. There has been news that Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg will hold a keynote speech at CES.

The Verizon iphone 4 will be similar to the current iphone 4, but will have addition of  “alternate wireless technology” (CDMA, LTE). It is said that this technology is the only way the Verizon network can talk with iPhone and it is supposed to be a faster /inferior technology.

This addition will give it an upper hand over the CDMA. So a 4G-LTE iPhone is perfect for Verizon and plans to offer coverage in some 38 major cities before the end of the year.

In December 2010, the iphone exclusivity deal expires. This provides more possibility of Verizon/iphone deal becoming a reality. We will have to just wait and see.

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AT&T Starts Enabling MMS on U.S. iPhones

By Sean Sarian

After what must seem like an eternity to all the owners of Apple’s iPhone, AT&T has finally enabled the MMS feature on their network.

AT&T is finally making good on its pledge to enable the service by the mid to late summer, a service which has been available on iPhones in other countries since June.

Most users will recieve a message from AT&T, the message read “AT&T Free Msg: Picture and video messaging (MMS) is now available for iPhone. Your existing messaging plan includes unlimited send and receipt of text, picture & video..”.

If, for some reason, you have not recieved the above message, you can still turn the service on. Heres how:

1. Connect the iPhone to the computer.
2. Click on the “Check for Update” button.
3. You should get a dialog that will alert you to a new carrier file that is available.
4. Download and install the carrier update.
5. Click OK when you are done.
6. Reboot the iPhone.