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Verizon Wireless & Apple Team Up to Deliver iPhone 4 on Verizon.   For more details visit http://www.iPhoneForums.net

BASKING RIDGE, New Jersey and CUPERTINO, California—January 11, 2011—Verizon Wireless and Apple® today announced that the iPhone® 4 will be available on the Verizon Wireless network beginning on Thursday, February 10. Qualified Verizon Wireless customers will be given the exclusive opportunity to pre-order iPhone 4 online on February 3, ahead of general availability.

iPhone 4 is the most innovative phone in the world, featuring Apple’s stunning Retina™ display, the highest resolution display ever built into a phone resulting in super crisp text, images and video, and FaceTime®, which makes video calling a reality. iPhone 4 on Verizon Wireless will also include new Personal Hotspot capabilities allowing customers to use iPhone 4 to connect up to five Wi-Fi enabled devices.

“We are pleased to introduce millions of wireless users to the industry leading iPhone 4 on the nation’s most reliable network,” said Lowell McAdam, president and chief operating officer of Verizon. “This is an important step for the industry as two great companies join forces to give wireless customers one of the most important technological additions to the mobile landscape this century.”

Actor Wesley Snipes, who is currently in prison in Pennsylvania serving a three-year sentence for tax evasion, will soon be starring in his very own action-strategy iOS game, called Julius Styles: The International.

Snipes plays the part of the game’s protagonist, Julius Styles, an international “Facilitator” in a world of money, power, sex and murder. And clearly, this is not just a case of a game having a star’s name slapped on it with them knowing little about it, as Snipes appears to have been very much involved with every aspect of the game, from conception onwards, judging by these quotes from the actor:

“This project was inspired by my desire to bring my Art of War, Murder at 1600 and Passenger 57 characters into the game world. Julius Styles will offer something for both the mind game strategist and the kick -ass special ops warrior lover. This game will expand on the cool, sexy, diverse sometimes scary, and often bizarre world and people I’ve had the pleasure to spend time with.”

Snipes adds that the game also features puzzle-solving elements alongside the action, and that’s also a result of his own input into the game’s development:

“I love games that challenge my mind and reflexes. Julius Styles pits your street knowledge survival skills with your academic intellect and spiritual intuition. The feature film is going to be a blast!”

Snipes might have got a little ahead of himself there, as there’s no Julius Styles feature film in the works just yet, at least not as far as we know! According to Ilkka Immonen, CEO of Lapland Studios, there will be several Julius Styles instalments released, on several different platforms, with the first coming in June 2011. The game will initially be an App Store exclusive for all iOS devices, before expanding to Xbox LIVE, PSN, WiiWare and Android.

On the eve of the joint Verizon Wireless /Apple event where they are expected to unveil the Verizon Wireless iPhone, The Wall Street Journal reports that Verizon will be offering unlimited data-use plans with the iPhone to its customers, according to its sources. As the WSJ points out, this would put clear blue water between AT&T and Verizon, with AT&T currently limiting the amount of data its customers can use in a month, mainly as an attempt to curb heavy iPhone usage which was pushing the AT&T network to its limit, leading to so many customer complaints about dropped calls. As far as the quality of Verizon’s service is concerned, Anthony J. Melone, Verizon’s chief technology officer, told the WSJ on Sunday that the company had invested strongly in its 3G network in 2010 to enable it to handle a rise in smartphone use, and Verizon also launched a new 4G network in December to help with the anticipated extra traffic.

“We added enormous capacity to the network in one fell swoop,” Melone told the WSJ. “It is there waiting for us to grow into it. That will help me tremendously with my 3G network.”

And, as the excitement about the forthcoming Verizon/Apple announcement mounts, some people are even seizing on the fact that tweets from Verizon’s official Twitter page are being made from an iPhone!

Classic SNES game E.D.F.: Earth Defense Force is coming very soon to the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad according to developer and publisher DotEmu. One of the great Japanese shooter-arcade games of the 90s, Earth Defense Force was first developed and published way back in 1991 as a coin-op game by Jaleco Ltd., before being ported to the SNES, and is the second volume in DotEmu’s Jaleco Arcade Series, with the first being Avenging Spirit.  No word as yet on pricing or the actual official release date yet from DotEmu, but it should be very soon, probably within the next week.

If you’re a fan of the Jaleco Arcade Series and want to find out what the third volume will be after Avenging Spirit and Earth Defense Force, check out the official website, where a clue as to the identity of the third game has been very cleverly hidden.

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MacRumors reports today that according to various well-connected sources, including The Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo, Verizon Wireless will be announcing the new Verizon iPhone at a special Verizon Media Event on January 11. Although The Wall Street Journal doesn’t say when the Verizon iPhone will be made available to Verizon customers, other reports yesterday would seem to indicate that February 3 will be the date.

Other reports point to the fact that the January 11 press conference will be a joint Apple-Verizon event, with Apple CEO Steve Jobs in attendance. All Things Digital has said that this is the case, and Gizmodo also thinks it will be a joint Apple-Verizon event, based on the fact that they have been banned! (Gizmodo has been banned from all Apple events since the leaked iPhone 4 incident last year.) So there we have it. After months of speculation, get ready for the Verizon Wireless iPhone!

Following on from the news earlier in the week that Apple had banned employees from going on vacation for a three-week period starting the last week in January, Boy Genius Report exclusively reveals today that they have received confirmation from a very good source with close ties to Apple that this holiday black-out period has been considerably narrowed down to four days, from Thursday February 3 to Sunday February 6, and is in place in several different regions in the US. Boy Genius Report adds that February 3 is the most likely date for release, because Verizon Wireless usually launches its new products on a Thursday. It's also Super Bowl weekend too, so that would make perfect timing from a marketing standpoint. And as BGR points out, although there has been no official confirmation that the mysterious Apple product launching in February is the Verizon iPhone and not the iPad 2, for example, all the Internet whispers seem to indicate that it’s the former we can expect to see come February, rather than the latter.

AppAdvice features a cool new gizmo called the Vyne today, that is a sort-of bendy, snakey stand to hold your iPhone, especially designed for watching movies or using features such as FaceTime. According to the makers, its designed to be worn when sitting down, and is suitable for viewing for an extended period of time. It really does look very ingenious, especially when you see the different photos of it coiled up like a cobra waiting to strike, or wrapped around your neck, like an iPhone-holding python. The bendy neck is made of a flexible elastomer, with a clip on the end to hold your iPhone securely in place. The Vyne comes in a variety of colours such as orange, green and pink. No word from the makers as yet regarding price or release date, but there’s a contact address on the official website if you want more details.

MacRumors reports today on a device that popped up at CES from a company called Orbotix. It’s called Sphero, and at present it’s only in the prototype stage, but it should be on sale in six months or so for around $100, complete with a few free bundled games. You connect the baseball-sized unit to your iPhone via Bluetooth, and then use the accompanying free app to control the ball. And in case the idea of being able to control a little ball with your iPhone doesn’t exactly fill you with wonder and excitement, Orbotix says that Sphero is really much more of a development platform, according to MacRumors, a building block to encourage third-party developers to come up with new types of games and apps based around the core technology, such as soccer, bowling, or a King of the Hill type game. With that in mind, Orbotix is also working on an API for developers.

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Only a couple of days into 2011 and it looks like Chillingo is off to a winning start with the arrival in the App Store of the fantastic Clumsy Bob. Just as with Angry Birds before it, there’s something about Clumsy Bob that makes you want to laugh out loud the minute you start playing, especially when the silly-looking elephant winks at you on the title screen. The game, which was developed by flygames, is a cloud-hopping platformer starring a clumsy elephant called Bob. The gameplay is simple, with Bob bouncing his way around the clouds, collecting coins to earn points, and trying to avoid dangerous critters such as snakes, rats and angry bad clouds as much as possible, and travel as far as possible.

Looks like a fantastically silly and stupidly addictive old-school platformer that’s tons of fun to play. Will it be the next Angry Birds? Probably not, but you never know!

Click here to download the game for $0.99/£0.59.

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