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what's happening Brian song here and welcome to the apple pie for all the good and bad inside the world of Apple let's get to the show now the verizon iphone 4 reviews are in and the overall consensus is that the verizon iphone beats out ATT when it comes to making phone calls and having less dropped calls you'll get the mobile hotspot and unlimited data plan for a limited time but it still has its own drawbacks data speeds for downloads and uploads were significantly faster on AT&T overall if you want to use your phone globally ATT is a better choice because of its gsm network support now pre-orders for verizon customers started thursday but there's another thing that might make you think twice according to a PDF memo that boy genius report found on verizon's website customers that use an extraordinary amount of data and fall within the top five percent may have their data speeds reduced to ensure that the majority of customers aren't affected by the few are you serious I got two words bad apple now this change hasn't been turned on at the moment but it exists and ultimately it's not good for us also news car launched its daily newspaper exclusive to the iPad called the daily it's subscription-based the first two weeks are free after that it will cost 99 cents per week or 3999 for the year but the biggest news from the event came from Reuters who spotted a working model of the ipad 2 with a front-facing camera at the event there were no pictures taken of it and Apple decline a comment which clearly means it exists photos acquired by nine to five max show let's believe to be the LCD part for the ipad 2 it's 10 grams lighter and a millimeter thinner and that could mean a smaller iPad I just hope Apple brings back the socks because the ipad nano ones were way too small for me what can I say have a big feet alright let's take a break with a how-to for sexing up your iPhone signature yep you heard me right taking away big sexy hey guys Brian song here with sina com and if you're bored with the same generic email signature that's included on your iOS device I'll show you how to sex it up a little with the iphone signature creator now big things to rick broida for this tip first up go to the URL that you see below and you can do this on your iphone ipad the ipod touch or your computer to create your snazzy HTML signature you can enter in the information you want like a friendly closing or something important like your name but here's some tips if you want icons to show up next to your work mobile and fax numbers leave the label section blank you also have the ability to check mark what other services will appear in your signature that will allow the recipient of your email to access things like your Facebook Twitter or LinkedIn pages so just make sure to provide the address that directs them to those profile pages plus you can also set up your signature so they can call you through FaceTime and Skype directly when you're done create a pin number that you can remember don't make the same when you use on your ATM card and then press create signature enter the pin number on the website that pops up you'll only have to do it once but this is really important now before you press go add this as a bookmark on your home screen on your iOS device then whenever you want to send someone an email with a killer HTML iphone signature you'll be able to do it with the press of your home screen icon I'm Brian Tom for cnet com and that's how you create your custom signature for iOS devices and trust me all the ladies will be asking you about it use it wat hold on guys oh no I know you like that signature I've got to tell you my phone is ringing off the hook after I changed my signature just saying now we've told you all to wait out for the next refresh of max using intel Sandy Bridge processors but you might have to wait a little longer after a chipset flaw has caused Intel to recall them and delay shipment so that wait for a new macbook is probably going to be a little longer all right onto the quick bytes two more verizon tidbits verizon is reminding their employees and family members to put customers first and refrain from buying the iphone for themselves and that sounds totally fair if you're the salesperson trying to communicate the user benefit of a phone you can't buy and in good news people who own verizon's pantech 4G LTE modem should be happy since a software update now makes it compatible with macs and we've shown you a preview of iOS 4.3 in a previous episode that's only available to developers apple recently released the third version of the beta which points to an official release very soon as in a couple of weeks very soon and finally to Apple stores in the New Jersey area will now be open on Sundays but for non sale activities like classes and trainings due to long-standing blue laws that's set aside a day for religious observance the only drawback is that its employees now have one less day in the week for their gym tan and laundry this poem huh huh alright that's going to do it for this week's show send us your emails to the apple byte at cnet com I'm Brian Tom thanks for watching and we'll see you guys next week for another bite of the Apple I