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Guest Post by Cynthia Bemis @highoctane Photo Courtesy of http://www.penn-olson.com When asked to be a guest blogger for the iGuy and iGirl on why I love the the Droid, I launched into my mental list of features I adore: the qwerty keyboard, the haptic feedback (vibration response), and most of all the service through Verizon. I could go on and on, so I approached it a different way. What is it about the iPhone that makes people look past it’s imperfections and limitations and upgrade to the [...]

As many of you know I am very active on Twitter (@ifficiency).  I can’t help but set the record straight on the NEW and IMPROVED Verizon iPad.  Most of the comments I have read on Twitter describe how “Amazing the new Verizon iPad will be” or “how service is going to be so much better.” WAKE UP! The Verizon iPad is nothing more than a standard Wifi only iPad you can buy at ANY Apple, Bestbuy, Target or Walmart.  No difference! No bloatware, not faster connection speeds…nothing. [...]

So much so they will buy yours.  Verizon today started taking trade-in phones, namely iPhones and giving customers a gift card worth the appraised value of the phone.  A 16GB or 32GB iPhone 4G will get you an astounding (not!) $212 while a 3G as low as $36 (I’d use it as an iPod before I give it over to the flying-V) I understand what Verizon is doing here.  If I turn in my iPhone and switch to Verizon I now owe AT&T a sweet cancelation fee for terminating my contract early.  Verizon [...]

Here we go again, and again, and again. The rumors are relentless and my Verizon carrying friends are drooling. Verizon will get the iPhone in 2010, or is it 11 or 2012…. Your guess is as good as mine however AT&T’s exclusivity deal is starting to see the finish line. Ill be honest, I DONT REALLY CARE. It is not that I wouldn’t like to see my Verizon toting friends have in my opinion the best phone on the market, but soon i’ll have to hear about how much BETTER the Verizon [...]