iPhone News Updated

This Gold And Wood IPhone Case Goes Perfectly With Your Smoking Jacket

If you want to dress your iPad up in the finest case money can buy, you needn’t look much further than this: Gresso’s African Blackwood, 18k gold jacket. It smells distinctly of excess.

It’s the same look and feel as Gresso’s $US3,000 iPhone 4 case, and while the iPad version doesn’t have a price listed yet—it goes on sale tomorrow—one would imagine the cost is commensurate with the size increase.

Then again, for the right tasteful millionaire, it could make the iPad just the accent piece for a mahogany-lined billiard room.

[Thanks: http://www.gizmodo.com.au]

Verizon iPhone announcement expected before Valentine’s Day: report

Many are anticipating a Verizon iPhone in the first quarter of 2011. Typically, Apple would have a huge event around the announcement, and current speculation is that the Verizon version will be announced before Valentine’s Day, 2011.

Whether or not that prediction comes to fruition, Business Week also states the obvious, that the Verizon iPhone presents a large problem for AT&T. As the exclusive carrier for the U.S. iPhone since 2007, AT&T’s network has been the subject of much criticism, including a recent reader poll from Consumer Reports which ranked AT&T as the worst carrier in America.

Meanwhile, Verizon has a reputation for reliability. Whether the iPhone’s data-sucking abilities will test that reputation remains to be seen. Reports have noted that Android users on Verizon’s network are actually using more data, per device, than corresponding iPhone users on AT&T’s network, which could be a positive sign for the carrier.

As far as the intro goes, it looks like hopes for a CES announcement by Verizon have been dashed. According to BW, a person familiar with Apple’s plans who is not authorized to discuss them publicly said that the Verizon iPhone launch event will come sometime after CES.

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