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Welcome, future Verizon iPhoneographers.

After years of rumors, the iPhone 4 has finally come to the Verizon network here in the US. The rumors have been floating around for a couple of years, but quite honestly I didn’t hold any stock in them until I read details about the very significant and very quiet upgrade Verizon gave its network in Austin, Texas in the middle of 2010. Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Thinking about getting a Verizon iPhone? Here’s what we know after today’s Verizon iPhone event.

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Photo courtesy of Tragically Hipstamatic Blog

A while back, we posted a link for making your iPhone 4 look like a Leica M8 camera. In case you missed it, Tragically Hipstamatic blog recently posted a similar method for skinning your iPhone 4 to look like a “Hipstamatic 185″ case. It’s a cool project and pretty easy to make. You’ll need an Xacto knife, a small OLFA knife or some other fine utility knife.

Tragically Hipstamatic writes in a January 2, 2011 post:

My iPhone 4 is a camera that I sometimes use to make phone calls, and with that in mind I endeavoured to make my iPhone look like the camera I use the most: the Hipstamatic.

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Here’s a giveaway for iPhone 4 owners. Want to win the PixelSkin HD case by Speck that’s shown above? I’ve got a case for an iPhone 4 that I’m giving away to one lucky reader this week.

PixelSkin HD has a shiny polished back with matte pixel overlay, creating an eye catching, sophisticated, and modern artful look. The grippy, rubberized case protects your iPhone from bumps, dings, and scratches. It easily slides on your iPhone 4, yet is flexible enough to remove easily and quickly.

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Okay, so the headline of this post isn’t one of my best, but it is a real problem many iPhone 4 users don’t notice until it’s pointed out.

GreenSpot Fix removes the blue-green tint in the center of a photo when the picture is taken under fluorescent lights on an iPhone 4. I’ve experienced interference issues from some types of lighting in the past. For instance, I found that transformers in some halogen lighting can cause interference and static bands on the iPhone camera. While I don’t know the exact science behind GreenSpot Fix, I suspect that the tints from fluorescent lighting are caused by the frequency of the fluorescent bulb not always meshing with the scan frequency of the CCD of the iPhone 4′s camera. If you shoot photos on your 4 under fluorescent lights, you can easily see the discoloration.

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File this one under “Rumors”.

Cult of Mac is reporting that the long-delayed white iPhone 4 is being delayed not because of mismatched home buttons, light leaking from the case, or antenna issues, but because of light leaks within the camera. You can read their whole story by clicking here.

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If you haven’t seen it yet, Chris Pirillo has posted to his blog an excellent video, comparing the cameras of the two latest Apple iDevices.

I haven’t purchased or tested an iPod Touch 4th Gen yet. That’s the sexy new iPod Touch with the back camera. While able to take still pictures, the camera on the new iPod Touch seems better suited for shooting HD video. It captures stills at 960x720px — that’s less than one megapixel and smaller than the 720p that the camera captures with video.

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Not a cool link, but an important one if you have an iPhone 4. It was a given that Apple’s iPhone 4 Case Program wouldn’t last forever. A recent announcement from Apple pretty much confirms it. Apple has announce that the iPhone 4 Case Program will end on September 30, in about 2 and half weeks.

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[UPDATEx3 09.03.10 10:10] Today was Apple’s September Event. Typically an iPod-centric event, there was plenty to please current and future iPhoneographers in today’s presentation. Today’s event was more than the traditional refreshing of the iPod line. The iPod Touch now gets not one, but two cameras — but not the high-resolution still camera that was the buzz of rumor sites.

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Today, Apple released the iOS 4.0.2 update for iPhone. This patch fixes the PDF exploit that allowed recent web-based JailBreakMe, the first jailbreak for iOS 4 and the iPhone 4. Jailbreaking is a process that unlocks the operating system and allows users to download many apps, extensions and themes unavailable through the App Store. It’s a recommended OS update for users — unless your iPhone is jailbroken.

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One of my faves got a good update and a new icon yesterday. The ProCamera 2.8 update by daemgen.net was released yesterday and it is one of very few camera replacements apps that is fully iPhone 4 compatible on its own terms — in fact, as of this writing, I can only think of one other, Camera+.

Read on for a list of the updates and fixes in this new version. >>>

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