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• Interesting thread with a poll going on that the results may surprise some of you – Average age of a iPhone user?

• For those of you picking up a Verizon iPhone 4 in a few short weeks, which will you choose, 16GB or 32GB?

• Have any questions regarding jailbreaking your iOS device? For all of your jailbreaking needs please stop by the following forum – Jailbreak and Unlock Forum.

• AT&T users should check their upgrade dates as it seems like the carrier may have made some changes for certain iPhone owners. Perhaps to keep them from jumping ship to Verizon?

See you in the forums!

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Interesting article over at SFGate detailing how Steve Jobs studies early Sony product development culture and Zen-like approach to design:

“It was very nearly fetishistic, in fact — he even had a collection of Sony letterhead and marketing materials,” laughs Deutschman. “Sony was a company that Jobs instinctively admired and saw as model from the very beginning. So it’s been an interesting transformation over time, to see Apple supplant Sony as the center of the consumer technology universe.”

Early Sony would wait, miss first-mover advantage, take their time and only release breakthrough, revolutionary products that could own a category, like Trinitron televisions and the Walkman. That Sony has faded away. (I covered this year’s CES Sony presser for Android Central and… yeah, it wasn’t good). But Apple under Steve Jobs has taken its place:

“I was at a party last night in central Tokyo that happened to have a bunch of twentysomething guests,” [Douglas Krone, CEO of Dynamism and Gizmine] says. “Every time I saw something glowing, it was an iPhone. It was a chilling display of dominance — five years ago, you would have seen 99.9 percent Japanese handsets and 0.1 percent Nokias and MotoRAZRs. Softbank’s flagship stores look almost comical now, with rows and rows of iPhones broken only by the occasional row of iPads, in a space that used to have a wide array of handsets.”

It’s often been said that Apple and Jobs build the products they themselves want to have and that they’re not as concerned with market as they are with “denting the universe”. They’ve had challenges, including the MobileMe launch and the iPhone 4 antenna kerfuffle, but measured against iPod, iPhone, iPad, iTunes, the resurgence of Mac, and the growth of Apple Retail the successes have been stunning.

The only question is whether or not Apple can keep it up or if they’ll stray the way once-dominant Sony did?

[SFGate via Daring Fireball]

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Is the new Apple TV worth $99? Now that it has reached that magic price point it’s a question we’re being asked more frequently than ever. Being part of the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad iOS family means it just works with the devices you already have but being part of Apple means it doesn’t work at all with other devices and formats. Does the good outweigh the bad? That’s the topic for this episode of TiPb TV!

Rene and I go over the basic hardware (HDMI yes, component or anything else, no!), content services like Netflix (US and Canada only but expanding), iTunes (TV Show rentals are US only), and YouTube, as well as streaming your own content from Mac or Windows via Home Sharing and now with iOS 4.2, your iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad content via AirPlay. There’s still no word on Hulu for Apple TV, and no support for AVI, MKV and other file formats… unless you Jailbreak and install XBMC.

So is the new Apple TV worth $99 of your hard earned money? Watch the video above and let us know what you think in the comments!

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RovioMobile have announced the next version of their hit game Angry Birds, coming to the App Store in March. The new game will not be a true sequel, but will be a licensed game based on the tie in with 20th Century Fox’s upcoming animated film Rio.

So far all they’ve done is post a YouTube trailer and tease it on Twitter. Rio is a film about rare birds being kidnapped by other birds and is all about them escaping to freedom. Therefore we assume in this game, you will be up against birds rather than the nasty pigs that steal your eggs.

The film Rio is due to be released on April 15th but the new game will be available sometime in March. No exact date yet, but we will let you know as soon as we hear. While you wait patiently, take a look at the video teaser after the break, then let us know what you think in the comments!

[@RovioMobile]

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3DBoard uses the iPhones accelerometer and gyroscope to present a “3D” view of the Springboard/Home Screen icons and it looks pretty nifty. Sure it’s pure eye candy and not as functional a tweak as SBSettings or LockInfo, but cool has to count for something, right?

It’s coming to Cydia soon and will cost $4. Anyone going to grab it?

Video after the break!

[YouTube via Gizmodo]

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Verizon has updated their website and started sending out mailings confirming that existing customers can start ordering the Verizon iPhone on February 3, 2011 at 3am EST.

They’ve even got a handy timer right on the front of verizon.com to help you countdown every last minute before you can order.

Now all we need is official postings on all the pricing plans and options and, of course, availability of VCast and other Verizon-specific apps on the App Store…

Anyone waiting up late — or getting up early — to make sure you snag one?

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