Apple already has the iPhone with two of China’s carriers, namely China Unicom and China Telecom, but the biggest prize of all, the world’s largest carrier, China Mobile, has remained elusive until now. Whether it was Apple’s or China Mobile’s choice for the company to be iPhone-less until now, AppleInsider writes today that according to China Mobile’s chairman, Xi Guohua, China Mobile is currently “actively talking to Apple” about the two companies working together. “I can’t give you too many details, but I’d like to repeat that both sides do hope to boost our cooperation,” he told shareholders in answer to questions about when the iPhone would be available on China Mobile, which currently has 667 million subscribers that Apple would doubtless be very pleased to have access to. AppleInsider notes that although China Mobile does not yet carry the iPhone officially, it already has more than 15 million iPhone users on its network.

Source: China Mobile 'actively talking' to Apple about iPhone cooperation

TVC Mall is a website known for receiving iPhone, iPod Touch, & iPad replacement parts before the device is released. Before it was sold out, I had a chance to snag one of the upcoming iPhone Home Buttons. As you can see in the video, the next generation Home Button has a different shape internally. Another new addition was the reflective film on the rounded square in the middle. No more white and grey squares. The site has been trustworthy in the past, what do you all think of the new design? Could it mean a bigger screen?

In a move that is sure to anger a massive swath of its customers, Verizon CFO Fran Shammo, at the Global Technology, Media and Telecom Conference in Boston, announced that Verizon plans to eliminate grandfathered unlimited data plans permanently.

Customers that were grandfathered in with pre-existing unlimited 3G data plans will have to purchase Verizon’s data-share plan that it plans to unveil this summer, when they transition to 4G LTE service. “Everyone will be on data share,” he said.

No specifics were give on this new plan that will launch in the summer, but consumers who opt for the family plans will likely benefit the most.

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When asked how Verizon will drive customers to this new data share plan, Shammo said that LTE will be the anchor for the new plan and that as customers upgrade from 3G to LTE, they will have to be on a data share plan, allowing the company to sunset its unlimited 3G data plan. "A lot of our 3G base is on unlimited," Shammo said. "When they migrate off 3G they will have to go to data share. That is beneficial to us."

It is not clear what they plan to do with folks who are on a 4G LTE grandfathered unlimited plan, but essentially those folks might be considered hold-overs from the unlimited 3G data era, and they might fall under this as well. We will dig deeper to see if it becomes more clear, but it is looking like the folks on 3G unlimited data plans are the only ones targeted right now.

Thanks to all our tipsters for this one!

Source: FierceWireless and VZW

Owners of the Hyundai Sonata and the Veloster have been able to enjoy the benefits of digitally connecting their car through Blue Link to their Android or iOS smartphone. They gained a few interesting benefits from this app, including remote start, door lock / unlock and control of the horn and lights. Now, Hyundai have taken things a step further and updated the Blue Link app to do much more, including running vehicle diagnostics, sending POIs from your phone for later in-dash navigation, and even locating and managing multiple Blue Link-equipped cars. These are just a few of the new outstanding features to go along with UI and performance improvements as well. Hit the source link for the full press release below.

Also, if this new economy-sportscar intrigues you, head over to our sister-site at VelosterTurbo.org for more discussions on this awesome and unique automobile!

Source: Hyundai YouTube Channel and VelosterTurbo.org

According to a report in The Wall Street Journal today, Apple has ordered screens from its supply chain in Asia that are the biggest that have ever been seen on an iPhone since Apple launched it in 2007. People familiar with the situation told the WSJ that production will begin next month on the new screens, which will be at least 4 inches diagonally. This is, of course, bigger than the current iPhone 4S, which is 3.5 inches. The WSJ says that Apple wants to make the screen bigger in order to keep up with increased competition from the likes of Samsung, which has just launched its new Galaxy phone with one of the biggest smartphone screens to date, coming in at 4.8 inches. The WSJ says that the next iPhone will be out in the fall and that Apple is working with several different screen makers on this project, including LG Display, Sharp, and Japan Display, with the latter being a new company that was formed last month by three Japanese companies and the Japanese government. Apple has declined to comment on the rumours, as usual!

Source: Apple Moves Toward Larger iPhone Screens - WSJ.com
Via AppleInsider

Smartweet is a Cydia Tweak which adds a Twitter client to your Notification Center. While this Widget may be a little big, hiding it under all of your other notifications might help. The Tweak acts as a normal Twitter client should, letting you see your Timeline and your Mentions. You have the ability of Retweeting, adding Tweets to Favorites, Reply, and of course composing a new Tweet. Within the settings you can set the amount of Tweets you would like to view within your Timeline at once. Smartweet can be found for $1.99 under the Big Boss Repo in the Cydia Store.

GrabberApp is Cydia Tweak which lets you choose which app you want your Lockscreen Camera Slider to open. In iOS 5.1 we were introduced to a new way of opening our camera from our Lockscreen by sliding upward. Now you can slide upward to open any application, even if you're on 5.0.1! If you are Jailbroken below iOS 5.1, this Tweak will also install Camera Grabber For iOS 5 which adds the 5.1 feature to your firmware. Within the settings you can choose which app to open and that's about it. GrabberApp can be found for FREE under the Big Boss Repo in the Cydia Store.

Urbanspoon, the leading mobile restaurant discovery app has today released its first annual Top High-End Restaurant List, recognizing the most highly acclaimed restaurants in the United States. The most comprehensive list of its kind, it highlights 250 of the top restaurants in the nation, the result of analyzing more than 600,000 restaurants, millions of reviews from professional food critics, the Urbanspoon community and diners.

“We would like to congratulate this list of restaurants who stand out among all the high-end restaurants in the US," said Kara Nortman, SVP of Consumer Businesses, CityGrid Media. "Based on restaurants that received the most favorable reviews from Urbanspoon's critic, blogger and diner communities, the list truly highlights a myriad of establishments from the expected like the Bay Area's French Laundry, to the unexpected places like Restaurant Iris in Memphis."
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The Urbanspoon Top High-End Restaurant List covers 36 states and 64 metropolitan areas, including New York, San Francisco and Chicago, as well as smaller locations such as Destin, Florida. You can view the complete list here: Urbanspoon Blog | America's Most Popular High-End Restaurants, and the newly re-launched Urbanspoon app for iPhone can be downloaded for free here: App Store - Urbanspoon

Source: Urbanspoon