Adorama, one of the world’s largest photography, imaging and electronics retailers, and a leading destination for iPhone photo specialty accessories, is now the newest reseller of the iPhone 5 on Verizon’s 4G LTE Network! A special discount is offered to customers who purchase and activate their iPhone when they buy it at Adorama through February 2013.

The new announcement comes along with an exclusive deal being offered for a limited time by Adorama — when customers purchase a new iPhone 5 with a Verizon contract, they will receive a $100 gift card. The card can be used at a later date, or at the point of purchase, effectively providing a deeper discount on the device and thus making it one of New York’s best deals on an iPhone 5. This valuable gift card offer is available at their retail location through February 28, 2013.

As the leading specialty photography and mobile imaging retailer in New York City, Adorama is perfectly situated to attract the incremental photo-enthusiast clientele, in whom both Verizon and Apple are interested. This new offering continues Adorama‘s position as one of the leading retailers at the cutting edge of mobile imaging. Adorama was the first in the industry to offer professional video reviews of photo apps on its online video channel, AdoramaTV.

To recognize the amazing things that are being done with iPhone images and mobile imaging apps, Adorama will again offer its annual APPOS Awards and contest. This contest was created specifically to honor the achievements in both imaging apps design and in iPhoneography, allows customers to submit photos that have been created using both their iPhones and an imaging app. Awards and prizes are given to honor the best images and apps in several categories. For those interested, additional details on the APPOS Awards will be released February 4, 2013.

Got a Verizon iPhone and want free unlimited data on your Verizon iPhone? Well, you’re just in luck thanks to the folks at Slickdeals. Here’s how you get this free unlimited data:

Method:

1. Dial *611 from your Verizon phone, or 1-800-922-0204 from any phone.
2. Wait for computer CSR to go through the main menu. You will need your Verizon phone # and account PIN or last 4 of SSN.
3. Hit option 4.
4. When it asks you what you would like to do today say “Add a feature.”
5. If you have a 3G device (which includes all iPhones): Say you would like to add the $20 2GB 3G Mobile Hotspot FEATURE to your phone
   If you have a 4G device: Say you would like to add the $30 Unlimited 4G Mobile Hotspot FEATURE to your phone. According to http://stopthecap.com/2011/07/12/…r-account/ , they may be able to locate this feature via referencing feature code #76153.
6. Your data plan will now be the $29.99 unlimited data plan, and you’ll have either the 2GB or unlimited Mobile Hotspot feature on top of that.
7. {OPTIONAL – if you don’t want the Mobile Hotspot feature} Log into My Verizon and remove the Mobile Hotspot FEATURE from your account. Many people recommend waiting a few days (at a minimum) to remove the feature. The $29.99 unlimited data plan should remain on your account.
8. If they say they can’t add that feature to your plan, or that you must bundle your data + mobile hotspot service together as a single data plan, tell them thank you, hang up, and repeat the steps above.

And remember…..even if this works out for you, Verizon could always put you back on a tiered data plan at a later date.

Enjoy!

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Continuing on with the new Poll of the Week format, along with the much covered Verizon iPhone 4, combined with a new Poll of the Week, this week’s Poll of the Week (yep, you guessed right) is: Have you pre-ordered your Verizon iPhone yet? As for me, I haven’t and won’t, I’m happy with my iPod Touch 4G plus AT&T cellphone setup, however, if you don’t have a cellphone, you can download NetTALK on the App Store. But what about you? You can vote on this poll above or on the sidebar to your right, and as always, in a week we’ll have a new Poll of the Week up. But anyway, here’s the results of last week’s Poll of the Week:

With the release of the Verizon iPhone just around the corner, some major tech review blogs and companies have been able to early access to the Verizon iPhone to give some first impressions and reviews. Well, with that said, to sum it all up, sounds like it’s better than the AT&T iPhone, but no surprises.

• Macworld
  • “With a few minor variations, it looks, feels, and works just like the AT&T iPhone 4”
  • iOS 4.2.6
  • Good distance on mobile Hotspot
  • “if you’re using the Internet and your phone rings, your Internet connection immediately drops”

• TechCrunch
  • This Verizon version of the iPhone 4 seems to have none of the same antenna issues [as the AT&T model]
  • Much better with signal / lack of dropped calls than the AT&T model (in San Francisco)
  • “the iPhone 4 can give you a solid 4 hours of hotspot/tethering time”
• All Things D
  • “the Verizon model did much, much better with voice calls”
  • “AT&T’s network averaged 46% faster at download speeds and 24% faster at upload speeds.”
• Engadget
  • “Calls were consistently connected and uninterrupted, far more often than our AT&T calls in the same time period in similar locations.”
  • “data rates on the Verizon iPhone 4 we tested were dramatically slower than those on its AT&T counterpart.”

Remember iOS 4.2.5 from the Verizon iPhone announcement last month? Well, iOS 4.2.5 is no more. Apple has made some last minute tweaks to iOS 4.2.5 and with those last minute tweaks, the Verizon iPhone will now launch with iOS 4.2.6 most likely unless it will launch with iOS 4.2.5 and you’ll have to do a manual upgrade. iOS 4.2.6 weighs in a massive download of 652MB which is 28MB more than the iPhone 4 GSM’s latest release. iOS 4.3 will probably be release shortly after only because the new hotspot feature which is one of the prime Verizon advantages over AT&T’s service. Who knows though, we’ll just wait and see what happens.