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Those are similar to the  results in NYC and we hear the same thing happens in Irvine, CA, for instance.

Why is this?  We have out theories.

• One major reason is that Verizon’s network is already pretty full of Androids running 4G while AT&T has only released a handful of devices with LTE. (this might also be why Apple used AT&T LTE at the event today)  The story might change when the flood of iPads come crashing in (for both companies).Chanel iPhone 4 Cases|Chanel iPhone 4S Cases|Chanel iPhone 4 Case|Chanel iPhone 4S Case
• Also, AT&T’s step down is to HSPA+ which is a lot faster than Verizon’s EVDO so perhaps AT&T has some faster legacy backhaul in place.
• In Verizon’s favor is that they’ve been running LTE for much longer (with some significant recent outages) than AT&T and they seem to do much better on those Consumer Reports customer satisfaction-type surveys (which usually also take voice quality into consideration).

The plans that Apple has in place would seem to favor AT&T as well, especially when you consider the 29,000 US Wifi hotspots.  At $30/month, you get 3GB from AT&T, 2GB from Verizon.

Verizon’s strong point has traditionally been its voice service over AT&T and perhaps one reason why in the past they’ve been able to charge a premium..  For data only, the playing field is a little more wide open, however.

So that tip –That the next iPhone is simply the new “iPhone” – seems a lot more plausible now.

As we predicted, Apple quickly unveiled a refreshed Apple TV today at its media event in San Francisco before moving onto the new iPad. On top of 1080p video streaming, perhaps one of the biggest features of the device’s upgraded UI is the ability to access purchased movies stored in iCloud— just like with music and TV shows. Unfortunately, according to a report from AllThingsD, it looks like not all content will be accessible. Content from Comcast’s Universal and News Corp.’s Fox will not be available due to deals currently in place with HBO¡£Best iPhone 4S Case|Best iPhone 4 Case

Several of the parties have held talks to settle the antitrust case and head off a potentially damaging court battle. If successful, such a settlement could have wide-ranging repercussions for the industry, potentially leading to cheaper e-books for consumers. However, not every publisher is in settlement discussions.

The government is specifically aiming to probe CBS Corp.’s Simon & Schuster Inc.; Lagardere SCA’s Hachette Book Group; Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group (USA); Macmillan, a unit of Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH; and HarperCollins Publishers Inc., a unit of News Corp. , which also owns The Wall Street Journal.Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case

At question: The so-called agency model where publishers freely set prices of their titles on Apple’s iBookstore, with the Cupertino company keeping 30 percent of the proceeds. The freedom to pick the price has led most, if not all, publishers to raise prices of e-books across the board as they feared customers would get accustomed to inexpensive $9.99 Kindle books from Amazon.

Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch already gave a deposition to the Justice Department saying abandoning the agency model would allow a single party to achieve dominance in the marketplace, alluding to Amazon. According to the people familiar with the matter, the Justice Department believes that Apple and the publishers “acted in concert to raise prices across the industry, and is prepared to sue them for violating federal antitrust laws”.

Apple posted the first TV spot for the all new iPad unveiled earlier today and it —not surprisingly—focuses on the device’s Retina display. The ad’s tagline: “When a screen becomes this good, it’s simply you and the things you care about.” Check below for our full coverage of today’s announcements:

Apple has acquired three different mapping startups including Placebase,  C3 and Poly9 from which it is likely building its mapping services.  If you’ve seen what C3 can do, (videos below) you know that the above tile fits into the “you ain’t seen nothing yet” category.

In addition Apple updated iBooks Author today to “take advantage of the Retina display on the new iPad” and did the same for the iTunes U app. The updates also include the usual stability and performance improvements.Designer iPad 2 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPad 2 Cases|Chanel iPad 2 Cases|Gucci iPad 2 Cases

If you aren’t in LTE land, AT&T’s network is much speedier especially with the new iPad radios which allow for “faster than iPhone” 21Mbps.Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case

Speaking of faster iPhone, HSPA+ is now called “4G” on current iPhones.  Perhaps confusing, AT&T has been lobbying for this for months.Hermes iPhone 4 Case|Hermes iPhone 4S Case

If you aren’t in LTE land, AT&T’s network is much speedier especially with the new iPad radios which allow for “faster than iPhone” 21Mbps.Burberry iPhone 4 Case|Burberry iPhone 4S Case

Speaking of faster iPhone, HSPA+ is now called “4G” on current iPhones.  Perhaps confusing, AT&T has been lobbying for this for months.

The Verge just reported that they received an invite from Apple for an iPad 3 introduction to be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10am PST, on Wednesday, March 7. The news just rendered CNBC’s report obsolete and inaccurate as it called for a March unveiling of a quad-core iPad 3 in New York City. True to Apple’s trademark anticipation-rising style, the invitation graphics shows a closeup of an iPad display adorned with the tagline “We have something you really have to see. And touch.” (Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases)The invite graphics would appear to confirm long-standing rumors of an ultra high-resolution Retina Display (2048-by-1536 pixels) expected as the key selling point of the device. Also interesting is Apple’s choice of timing, announcing iPad 3 event right in the middle of Eric Schmidt’s keynote talk at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain.Gucci iPhone 4 cases|Gucci iPhone 4S cases|Gucci iPhone 4 case|Gucci iPhone 4S case

The Guardian reports that Apple is working on a new high-definition audio format to adapt to bandwidth or hardware capabilities. Presumably, Apple will leverage the new format to distribute high-fidelity music through iTunes and perhaps upgrade the iTunes Match service that currently provides matched songs in 256Kbps AAC format.Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases

It is believed the new audio format would intelligently adjust itself to the bandwidth and storage available on the receiving device. Such a description also gives hope that an iTunes music streaming service, which is akin to Spotify and based on Apple’s Lala acquisition, could be in the works.

According to “a source with inside knowledge of the process,” the Cupertino, Calif.-based company is working with a London studio to prep existing audio files for the new format. An anonymous source told the paper:Coach iPhone 4 Case |Coach iPhone 4S Case 

All of a sudden, all your audio from iTunes is in HD rather than AAC. Users wouldn’t have to touch a thing – their library will improve in an instant.

Apple’s annual iPod refresh that usually takes place in fall could be a fitting venue to announce the new high-fidelity format. Another possibility is the forthcoming iPad 3 event rumored to take place March 7.Hello Kitty iPhone 4S Case|Hello Kitty iPhone 4 Case

You will remember that Apple recently rolled outiTunes Match in Japan and enabled the newMastered for iTunes section in the iTunes Store populated with albums “specially tuned for higher fidelity sound.” Ars Technica explained in its trademark exhaustive style that “higher-fidelity sound” means 96kHz audio samples in 24-bit precision—a huge improvement in sound quality compared to CDs containing digital audio mixed down to 16-bit precision and sampled at 44.1KHz.According to Apple, keeping highest-quality masters on iTunes servers is a bulletproof way of improving audio quality on iTunes as soon as technology and Internet bandwidth catch up. Eagle-eyed readers could also point to a Neil Young interviewrevealing Steve Jobs was working on a high-fidelity music service because he wanted to bring the richness of the vinyl sound to digital tracks.

Handset maker Motorola Mobility may have found itself in an uneasy place as both Microsoft and Apple are attempting to block its $12.billion sale to Google, but the company’s marketing department is as vigorous as ever. With this week’s spotlight on the latest mobile developments showcased at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, Spain, the Razr-maker published three provocative clips on its YouTube channel.Designer iPhone 4 Case|Designer iPhone 4S Case

The videos pit the iPhone 4S-exclusive Siri feature against Android Voice Actions running on three different handsets: The Atrix 2, Photon 4G and Electrify. In each instance, Siri runs notably slower (and therefore less useful) than Android Voice Actions on Motorola’s devices.

Both Android Voice Actions and Siri need a network connection to upload audio samples of spoken queries. The cloud does the rest–speech recognition, parsing your query and beaming down the results.Coach iPhone 4 Case|Coach iPhone 4S Case

Two more clips are right below.Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case

Android Voice Actions for calling, texting, navigation and more debuted in August 2010 and are supported on Android 2.2 onwards through the Voice Search app. Siri, Apple’s AI acquisition, is deeply integrated as a core iOS feature of iPhone 4S. As for hardware differences, Motorola launched the Photon 4G last summer and debuted it on the Sprint network as its first 4G device. A dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 chip from Nvidia powers it. Apple’s iPhone 4S was introduced on Oct. 4, 2011, and it runs the Apple-designed A5 chip packing in two processing Cortex-A9 cores clocked at an estimated 800MHz each. Apple licensed these cores from fables semiconductor maker ARM Holdings based in the United Kingdom— same as Nvidia with its Tegra 2 chip found inside Motorola’s device.

Apple Daily, a Hong Kong publication today has images of what they say is the next iPad compared to iPad 1 and 2.  You’ll notice increased tapering and a bigger camera lens.  The publication says that the camera is a whopping 8 megapixels which would likely mean that it is the same Sony camera in the iPhone 4S that CEO Howard Stinger first leaked in April of last year.Designer iPhone 4 Cases|Designer iPhone 4S Cases|Designer iPhone 4 Case|Designer iPhone 4S Case

We first heard reports of 5-8 megapixel cameras in the next iPad at the end of last year in a wide ranging set of reports.

Apple.pro grabbed some images of the print version that seem to show the tapering better.Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Case|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4S Cases|Louis Vuitton iPhone 4 Case

The iPad 3 picture seems to be coming together but that doesn’t mean there aren’t going to be some surprises.

Apple Daily also note new cabling, pictured below:

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