iPhone News Updated

Verizon To Preview Android Devices, Not iPhone

At CES next week, the carrier has scheduled a news conference to provide “sneak peek” of Android-based 4G LTE consumer devices, rather than the rumored announcement it will launch a version of the Apple iPhone.

Verizon Wireless on Tuesday announced its lineup of speakers for its LTE news conference at next week’s CES show in Las Vegas and the news is likely to disappoint the hoards of journalists and stock analysts who have been predicting the firm will launch a version of Apple’s iPhone.

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Control a PC, Straight From Your Phone

If you’re a heavy iPhone user who also owns a PC, you’ve probably experienced the annoyance of having to get up from a comfy couch or an office meeting to go back from your phone to your computer for something.

For 99 cents, Splashtop’s new iPhone app, Remote Desktop, lets you fire up your computer’s display on the iPhone. You can control apps, click and type at them, even play audio and video from your computer over the iPhone.

Remote Desktop runs on newer iPhones—the 3GS and 4 versions—as well as on the third and fourth-generation iPod Touch.

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