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iPhone 3GS SlashGear 02 r3media 272x204 customThe surest way for someone to generate attention is by making an Apple prediction. Apple has a cult following, and its product development and launch strategy is famously secretive, so the fact that your source is the lunch counter guy across the block from the Hon Hai factory in Taiwan won’t be discovered (or may even be considered authoritative!). Financial analysts are often the worst offenders – we have been promised an Apple tablet more times than I can count, assured that an iPhone nano was on the way, and where’s that iPod touch with a camera?

However, market analysts like me (and fellow SlashGear columnist Michael Gartenberg) rarely talk about specific products before they’re launched. Often, that’s because I can’t: vendors frequently tell me what they are working on ahead of time under non-disclosure agreements. Another reason that I don’t make specific predictions is that I simply hate being wrong: my job depends on my being both trustworthy and generally accurate, and I’m not about to jeopardize that for a bit of extra attention in the press.

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verizon 4g iphoneSalt cellars at the ready, folks.  Despite an aggressive anti-iPhone campaign kicked off over the weekend and an incoming Android device that’s said to have had the biggest Google involvement in hardware to-date, Verizon is tipped to have been testing a 4G LTE iPhone on their fledgling next-gen network.  According to fonefrenzy’s unnamed sources, Verizon and Apple have been testing the CDMA iPhone over the past few months, with carrier CEO Lowell McAdam double-dipping on his trips to Mountain View, California, by stopping by both Google and Apple’s headquarters.

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lg logoThere are lots of milestones that go along with rolling out a completely new type of mobile service like LTE. One of the milestones is to test the conformance of LTE handsets with older networks and with new LTE test networks. LG and a wireless testing firm called Anite have announced that they have completed the first LTE conformance test case.

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Everyone seems to be browsing the internet on their mobile phone now a days, but let’s be honest: up until recently, it wasn’t the greatest of experiences. Why? Because we weren’t getting all that we could. Flash player has been something of a rarity, but it’s starting to peek its much-needed head out more and more, even sneaking on devices like the Samsung Jet. And now it looks like Research In Motion (RIM) is starting to see that Flash is the way to go. But, unlike Samsung’s Jet, RIM doesn’t plan on holding back.

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Verizon Wireless is on the road to improvement, especially in the network department. They’ve announced today that they’ve just completed the first initial tests for LTE. Utilizing end-to-end data calls, they are approximate calculations of real world usage. The initial tests in Seattle actually occured back on July 15, but in Boston it went down today.  This kept with Verizon’s initial estimations of testing on the 700MHz spectrum.

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It’s been another week dominated by cellphones here at SlashGear, with our exclusive review of the HTC Touch Diamond2 plus plenty of news from the rival Android smartphone camp.  The HTC Magic launched on Vodafone Spain, but we were more interested in the Samsung I7500, a super-skinny slice of 5-megapixel Android loveliness.  Check out the live demo video here.

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After talk earlier this week regarding Apple and Verizon’s ongoing negotiations, rumors regarding two new mobile devices already in the prototyping stage have leaked from Cupertino.  The Apple iPhone Lite and the Apple Media Pad are both tipped as headed for Verizon, the former a cheaper iPhone and the latter having a large touchscreen, VoIP and WiFi connectivity.

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verizon iphoneCould an LTE iPhone be landing on Verizon’s new Long Term Evolution network next year?  That’s one interpretation of the latest Apple rumors, which tip the arch AT&T-rival and Steve Jobs kicking off negotiations for their own iPhone several months ago.  “People familiar with the situation” claim discussions between the pair have continued ever since, seemingly putting AT&T’s exclusivity agreement at risk.

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verizon logo 470x3101Verizon released the specs for their 4G network today, (well, they announced the day they’ll be announcing them–May 13th) giving a significant promotional boost to their Open Development program and increasing interest in their upcoming network change over.

These new specs allow hardware builders to start working on devices that will work on the new network, which is specifically a 700MHz Long Term Evolution or LTE network. The whole idea behind releasing the specs early is to give developers enough time to come up with devices that are LTE-ready by the time the 4G network launches early next year.

Trials for the LTE network have already shown speeds of 60Mbps and would make it possible to stream HD video on your mobile device. An early 2010 release is expected for Verizon’s LTE network, but we’ll just have to wait and see if there are sufficient devices to take advantage of the improved speeds at that time.

[via GigaOm]

With the news that Apple’s contract with AT&T would be up in 2010, there were rumors abound that Verizon would be moving in to get a deal with Apple to bring the Jesus phone to Big Red. Bad news CDMA lovers: It’s not going to happen. Well, not for the iPhone 3G anyway.

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