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what's happening i'm brian Tong and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple will announce our giveaway winners at the end but first to the stories Mobile World Congress that the largest mobile trade show in the world has wrapped up and even though Apple didn't show up at all it still walked away with the mobile device of the Year award for the iphone 4 it was given the award by judges for its great screen sharp design fantastic materials and phenomenal ecosystem for app developers so what could they be working on next to top that well Taiwanese website Apple proclaims the big a is working on three hardware prototypes for the next-gen iphone they say one model has a sliding cover that reveals a keyboard another similar to the current iphone 4 with improved battery life and a better camera and digitize is reporting that the iphone 5 will use a four-inch screen to better compete with android phones then the wall street journal reported that a smaller less pricey iphone that would be about half the size of the iphone 4 and would target the mass market with a lower price point kind of like the iPhone nano would be released potentially as well now you can choose to believe all this or none of it but as we get closer to June this story will clear up Apple is also looking to revamp its mobile me service according to cult of mac it will not only include a digital Locker to stream music and movies something we've been waiting for since there are Lala acquisition but it's looking to include a video streaming service like you stream a location-based check-in system like Foursquare and a geo-tagging service called tokens the centerpiece of it all will be a dynamic web page that is a mash-up of all these elements that's your mobile life or your mobile me Oh Apple you little clever us I see what you did there mobile me in macbook news AppleInsider has been told that the next gen macbook pro is currently in production and can be expected sometime around March which is about a year since their last revamp in april 2010 and we're sure it will take some design cues and features from the macbook air now seen its own Brook brother says the next MacBook Air refresh be sometime in June according to his sources and if you curious what features we might see Apple gave us a hint with a survey they sent out to select MacBook Air owners some of the questions focus on wireless 3g connectivity web-based file storage and syncing and processing power sparking hope that a more powerful macbook air with built-in 3g could be on its way and with all that news I'm feeling like a mag daddy need a mack daddy cuz I'm gonna make the morning meeting me in matte but what what wait what would Jamie's are you all right all right let's get door how to tip to give 18 to users more rollover minutes what's up Apple biters if you're an iPhone user on AT&T and you haven't switched over to verizon yet here's a way to get 1,000 bonus rollover minutes for free now all you have to do is send a text message with the word yes to 11 1130 20 and you'll get a response confirming that this is not an infomercial this will not extend your contract it takes approximately four weeks to be added and this is good for all AT&T iphone customers until March 31st 2011 use it wisely my friends see now I have more minutes than I can use to talk to you miss Jamie all right whatever you know I'm a 1000 minute man now yeah now to the quick bites according to display search if you include iPads as pcs which seems pretty logical now Apple has surpassed HP as the number one mobile pc vendor in the world with over a seventeen percent market share or 10.2 million units there's also some fallout from the verizon iphone 4 launch after sales appear to have fallen below expectations analysts were predicting 1 million sold in the first three days while boy genius reports only five hundred fifty thousand units were actually pre-ordered opening day lines were short and sales at multiple stores are solid but it means you listen to us to wait for the next iphone and steve jobs will be meeting with President Obama and other tech luminaries which is another good sign that he's doing all right after the constant media scrutiny of his health okay let's announce our winners for our giveaway for the mophie workbook for iPad congratulations to Justin Charlie Kate lap Marty from Chicago Vernon Tyrell and Omar Morales will be in touch with you guys and we appreciate all the emails at all you apple byte are sent to us alright that's going to do it for this week's show send your emails to the Apple bita cnet com i'm brian Tong thanks for watching and we'll see you next week for another bite of the Apple