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Could it finally happen? Could Verizon and Apple be planning to partner up with the 4th generation iPhone this summer? A report in TheStreet.com is any indication; Apple is equipping the next iPhone with CDMA chips built by Qualcomm. Verizon is a CDMA network, and AT&T runs on a GSM network.

We know that the exclusivity deal with AT&T is due to end in the summer, so will we see Apple and Verizon joining hands in 2010? Phones Review said that the Verizon network is not ready just yet for the iPhone. The funny thing is, Apple did go to Verizon first but it seems that they had too many demands for them, which is why AT&T got and still has the deal with the iPhone.

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You would have thought that Verizon would be doing all they can to get a deal with Apple and its iPhone; after all, it is the best selling handset on the market. No matter what new smartphone is launched, none of them can compete with the iPhone 3GS.

Verizon recently launched the Motorola Droid; sales have not made a dent in the iPhone 3GS. Google launched its Nexus One; its sales have been laughably. Just imagine what sales will be like for the rumored iPhone 4G, which is rumored to be released in the first part of this year.

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Could it be true Microsoft and Apple teaming up to take on the search engine giant Google? A report in businessweek says these to bitter rivals in the PC market could be teaming up to make Bing the default search engine of the iPhone, in an effort to counter the market dominance of search giant Google.

According to reports Apple and Microsoft have been in negotiations for weeks. could also be looking to make Bing search an option in the Safari browser on the Mac.

“Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy,” one of the sources allegedly told BusinessWeek. “Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle.”

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The source for businessweek says Apple has an interest in serving mobile ads on the iphone and ipod touch. Earlier this month, Apple purchased mobile advertising firm Quattro Wireless for $275 million, a move that was largely seen as an effort to counter Google’s acquisition of ad firm AdMob.

Last week, one report said that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hopes to “overhaul mobile advertising in the same way they had revolutionized music players and phones.” Apple could offer developers the ability to place advertisements in their App Store software, and take a cut of the revenue much like Google already does.

The alleged negotiations with Microsoft for Bing search are another example of the growing rivalry between Apple and Google. Last summer, Google CEO Eric Schmidt resigned from the Apple Board of Directors as an investigation from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission was looking into the connections between the two companies.

Schmidt’s move was seen as necessary as Google and Apple now compete in numerous markets in the technology sector: Google’s Android mobile operating system competes with Apple’s iPhone; both companies recently made large mobile advertising related purchases; Google’s forthcoming Chrome OS will see the company enter the desktop computing space; and the Chrome browser competes with Apple’s Safari.

The most public dispute between Apple and Google came last summer, when the Google Voice application was not accepted into the iPhone App Store. The two companies shared barbs with Google alleging the software was outright rejected for use on the iPhone, while Apple said it remained under review and consideration. (AppleInsider)
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A new report Monday from FoxNews.com cites an anonymous source to claim Apple will introduce its tablet, “iPhone 4″ and iLife 2010 at next week’s event. Reports say Apple will be introducing three new products. Unfortunately iPhone hardware will not be introduced. Reports also say iphone OS 4.0 will be part of the event.

“I spoke to a source at Apple this morning, before the invite hit my inbox, who said the event would likely focus on three projects: The tablet device, iPhone 4, and a new round of iLife 2010 software,” Morris wrote. “While we won’t see new iPhone hardware just yet, we will see the next-generation software.” (Clayton Morris)

Don’t get your hopes up to high; Apple has been known to change its mind about what products to introduce at the last minute. For example last September’s iPod, the iPod touch was suppose to have a camera. Due to rumored technical issues decided at the last minute not to include it. It has been reported that Apple is still intends to add a camera to the ipod touch.

Rumors from earlier this month suggest the Apple tablet could be shipped with a multi touch version of iwork. Rumors did not say if iLife would be available for the tablet. Earlier Monday, Apple sent out invitations to the event at the Yerba Buena center for the Arts in San Francisco. Company used the tagline “Come see our latest creation” to invite select members of the press.

Last month, select developers were supposedly asked to prepare full screen demos of there iPhone applications for a public unveiling. Reports have said that some have been working with a new software development kit, iPhone OS 4.0, that includes a “simulator” that aims to make it easy for developers to adapt their software to different screen resolutions.

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Rumors surrounding the apple tablet have only focused on the looks and not too much of the functionality of the tablet. Text input for the tablet could make or break this device. This has been a problem for apple and other companies for quit a while. CES was filled with tablet devices that couldn’t get it quite right. So the question how do you create text with out a keyboard?

People have been typing without physical keyboards for years now, and this is largely Apple’s doing. One of the major selling points for the iPhone was the onscreen keyboard. Apple was one of the first companies to make onscreen typing bearable.

Now bringing this technology to the Apple tablet, some say could be a big mistake. There were many different tablets at CES nearly all ha d a traditional onscreen keyboards. One tablet stood out however. The android 2.0 keyboard, which is aesthetically different but functionally almost identical to iPhone OSes. The onscreen keyboard as we know it doesn’t scale gracefully, and unless Apple wants their tablet to be completely useless (our sources say they don’t) they’re going to have to figure this out. So what are Apple’s options?

Apple has had its share of mistakes in the past; however putting an onscreen keyboard could be one of those mistakes. Style, thumb-actuated onscreen keyboards work on screens up to about five inches, with the 4.3-inch-screened HTC Touch HD2’s keyboard straining even the most unsettlingly long thumbs. But to assume that this won’t work is to assume that the tablet is to be held a certain way, with hands at four and eight o-clock, more or less like a touchscreen phone in landscape mode.

A single, iPhone-esque keyboard really shouldn’t be the primary input method. It could be a supplementary input method, but to have two separate text input mechanisms seems messy. Messy doesn’t do to well with apple.

Another solution this problem could be voice control. Apple has been working on perfecting this technology since it introduced spoken interface for the OS X. as it stands the iPhone’s voice control speech recognition is much more accurate, and though there are quite a few customization options, it’s really just a command system, not a full text input system. Apple is very proud of the progress they have made on the Voice Control for the iPhone, and they haven’t removed voice commands from OS X in over five years. However using this type of system to control every function of the new tablet is highly unlikely.

The safest bet for Apple, in handling the input text problem is to come up with some sort of new onscreen keyboard. Any onscreen keyboard would have to be different than the iPhone’s somehow, but to say that Apple’s tablet will have a new style of keyboard is to say that it will have pretty much any kind of onscreen keyboard that is unlike the iPhone’s. Having a split onscreen keyboard isn’t new but it also isn’t something we see to often.

The best alternative is an actual, available product called DialKeys. Co-opted by Microsoft a few years ago, this tech, which splits the keyboard into two crescent-shaped virtual keyboards, shipped with a handful of touchscreen UMPCs, a category of devices that died off before it had the time to truly solve the onscreen keyboard problem. It wasn’t very good. But the concept had potential, maybe.

The biggest problem Apple has to face in the text input. There is no clear answer what route Apple will take. Apple has a way of taking existing technology and perfecting it. It seems, for know, the split onscreen keyboard is the best solution.

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