Following up on last Friday’s post, the news is in!

This morning, Verizon Wireless announced its plans to release the iPhone 4.  The Verizon iPhone will be available on February 10th and for pre-order on February 3rd for existing Verizon customers.

While Verizon has not yet disclosed data plan cost details, they did share costs for the new smartphones: $199 for a 16 GB and $299 for the 32 GB.

With the addition of Verizon as an iPhone carrier, Apple has the opportunity to potentially double the number of iPhone users.

Verizon Wireless has sent invitations inviting reporters and bloggers to attend an event they will be hosting on Tuesday.  All arrows are pointing to an iPhone announcement.  Stay tuned!

During the WWDC’s keynote yesterday, Steve Jobs announced that the Bing search engine will be included as one of the search options (along with Google) within the Safari 5 browser.  This is big news for the number three search engine (after Google and Yahoo) and could be perceived as Apple forging closer ties with Microsoft or a gradually diminishing relationship with Google.  Either way the Bing mobile product was commended yesterday by Jobs, who said, “Microsoft has done a really nice job on this, it’s an HTML5 presentation, it’s great.”

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My boy has an iPhone and I swear the battery lasts an hour. He is always running from charger to charger.  I on the other hand, can rock my iPhone for todays before I need a charge – what’s the deal Apple??

Either way, when I saw this little Carhartt accessory or branded portable iPhone charger, it was time to save my friend.  Featuring a Carhartt graphic on the front, the lithium-ion charger allows you to keep your iPhone topped up on the go. The only issue is its currently only available Carhartt Tokyo.

Finger point to: Gizmodo

Nice dig on Steve Jobs as Apple sues Google’s mobile handset maker for ’stealing’ iPhone technology.