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Is an iPhone 4, an iPhone 4? Not quite, now that Verizon has launched a CDMA version of the device — in fact, there are a number of notable differences that you’re going to want to consider before buying either model (or making the jump from AT&T to Big Red). We wanted to dig in and see exactly what has changed — how does pricing compare, for instance? What features have been added or removed? In light of both Verizon’s and AT&T’s harping on 4G data in the past week at CES, do either of these phones support it? Let’s have a quick look!
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Are you the next Einstein? Google is looking for you. The company “believe[s] that science can change the world,” and it’s looking to back that belief with some valuble prizes, attempting to “celebrate and champion young scientific talent as we do athletes and pop idols.”
The search giant has partnered LEGO, National Geographic and Scientific American for a an online science contest. The competition is targeted at students across the world, aed 13 to 18. Projects are due on April 4th. Semi-finalists will be announced in May.
In July, 15 finalists will bring their projects to Google for a live event with science judges, including Dean Kamen, Nobel laureate Kary Mulis, Google exec Vint Cerf, Scientific America editor Mariette di Cristina, and CERN director Mariette di Cristina.
More information, incuding registration, is available on Google’s official blog.
Would you look at that, Verizon’s iPhone 4 has four notches punctuating its external antenna array — one more than you may find on AT&T’s version, with the top notch migrating to the side. Before you all jump on conspiracy theories about fixes and such, Tim Cook has just confirmed on stage that changes had to be made to work on the CDMA network, meaning that for users this is pretty much an aesthetic alteration. Otherwise, you’re looking at an almost identical device to what AT&T users have been enjoying since June of last year — savvy nerds will just be able to tell the CDMA version apart at one glance.
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Nintendo’s game console likely took the top sales spot in December but saw a 32 percent declines year over year. Meanwhile, Xbox 360 sales were likely up 91 percent.
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It’ll probably be subject to an additional fee as usual, but Verizon and Apple have just revealed that the new CDMA iPhone 4 will act as a mobile WiFi connection for up to five devices. It’ll come with an iOS-specific version of the Verizon 3G Mobile Hotspot that folks have been enjoying on their Droids for many moons now. That should allowing for laptops, tablets and the like to get online via iPhone without a pesky cord, and almost certainly make the long-verboten iPhone – iPad tethering connection finally attainable. Joy to the world!
Update: Verizon called it an app, but getting hands-on we can see that’s not the case at all — Personal Hotspot is built right into the CDMA iPhone 4’s build of iOS 4.2.5. Perhaps we’ll see it migrate to other devices as well?
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We’ve waited and waited, and now Apple and Verizon have made a million dreams come true: the iPhone is coming to Big Red. After talking up his new LTE network a bit, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam confirmed a CDMA (non-LTE) version of the iPhone 4 is coming to Verizon Wireless next month. Talks started way back in 2008, and the phone has been in testing for a year — it sounds like they wanted to get this one right. Current Verizon customers will be able to pre-order on Feburary 3rd for the standard $200 price for the 16GB model on a two year agreement, $300 for the 32GB version — everyone else can order on February 10th (see it compared with AT&T’s iPhone 4). Just to clarify and put any wild rumors to bed, the phone is Verizon 3G (EV-DO) only, no 4G data or GSM roaming. It’s not a world phone or an AT&T + Verizon phone, it’s just a Verizon phone.
Outside of Verizon connectivity, the phone is basically unchanged, although Verizon’s CDMA network doesn’t support simultaneous voice and data as with the GSM version. It does have the new antenna design we were hearing about last week, but that’s just because CMDA requires a different configuration of antennas. (Apple says they didn’t go LTE just yet because first-gen chipsets would force unwanted design decisions, and customers want a Verizon device now.) That slight modification also equates to a slight bump in where the volume buttons and mute switch — a new case might be required. Software-wise the big innovation is five user WiFi hotspot functionality, something that’s standard on Android phones, while Apple has kept the iPhone only able to tether directly to one computer.
Check out our full hands-on with the Verizon iPhone right here, and stay tuned — we’ve got lots more coming up.
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There goes the neighborhood. American Astronomers discovered a black hole in a Henize 2-10, a galaxy some 30 million light years away from the earth. According to the scientists, the black hole has roughly a million times the mass of our own sun.
Henize 2-10 has been the target of much study, as of late. Scientist have observed its ability to birth starts quite rapidly. It’s one of the few dwarf galaxies known to sport a massive black hole–they usually reside in much larger galaxies.
“This galaxy probably resembles those in the very young universe, when galaxies were just starting to form and were colliding frequently,” the University of Virgina’s Kelsey Johnson told AFP. “All its properties, including the supermassive black hole, are giving us important new clues about how these black holes and galaxies formed at that time.”
The Olympus PENpal is a Bluetooth widget that beams photos from your camera to your computer. It slides into the accessory shoe on the top of the Olympus PEN E-PL2 camera and is controlled by the camera itself.
This ingenious dongle integrates with the camera’s own menus, and sends images to any device compatible with Bluetooth file transfers (which counts out the iPhone and iPad, as we noted in our full review of the E-PL2). It works like this: Browse your photos on the camera’s screen as usual and then hit the menu button. From here, choose the “Send a Picture” option and you’re done. The photo will appear on your computer a few moments later.
The PENpal will also resize photos before sending. Depending on your settings, it will shrink pictures to 1280 x 960, 1920 x 1440 or 640 x 480, and can store up to 2,600 pictures in its own memory.
This seems like an ideal solution for crappy cellphone cameras. You can take a snap with a proper camera and then send it to your phone for editing and uploading, letting both devices do what they’re good at. This seems to be a trend in consumer electronics in general: We’re moving away from convergence and the do-everything machines that entails, and coming to small ecosystems of networked devices. Camera, computer and tablet are all beginning to talk to each other.
It’s just a shame that this won’t work with the iPad, which really needs a camera, and that it is Olympus-only. At least it’s cheap, though, at just $80.
Olympus PENpal [Olympus via Derek Story]
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