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Verizon to allow UNLOCKED PHONES?????

Verizon Communications Inc.'s plan to open its wireless network to any devices, not just Verizon cell phones, is partly motivated by a desire to cut costs, the company's chief operating officer said Wednesday.

The move to open access, announced last week, is a departure from cellular carriers' long-standing practice of tightly controlling what devices and services, like music downloads, are available to customers.

By opening up the network, starting late next year, Verizon hopes to carry traffic generated by third-party companies that could build in access to Verizon's data network not only into phones, but also digital cameras and other gadgets.

"We think it's a phenomenal new source of revenue for us," COO Denny Strigl said at an investor conference hosted by UBS on Wednesday.

"It is also, to be totally fair here, something which helps us reduce cost in this new business," Strigl added. The third parties will handle marketing and customer service and pay Verizon based on the network usage racked up by their customers.

"This is not something customers will buy through Verizon," Strigl said.

Last week's announcement by Verizon Wireless — a joint venture of New York-based Verizon Communications and Britain's Vodafone Group PLC — comes as some customers want more flexibility in what they can do with their phones — even though it could leave the carrier as a basic provider of wireless access rather than a value-added content provider as well.

Strigl said he did not expect Verizon to be alone in offering open access.

"My gut feeling is that our competitors will arrive at the same conclusions we did," he said.

Verizon competitor Sprint Nextel Corp. is already providing a similar service to Amazon.com Inc., which last month launched a reading device for electronic books. E-books are downloaded wirelessly through Sprint's network, and Kindle owners never deal with Sprint, only with Amazon.

Strigl acknowledged that Verizon may run into problems if too many customers try to use its data network at the same time, for instance for streaming video. But on the other hand, since Verizon plans to charge by usage, a popular video service that takes full advantage of the network would be a boon to the company.

"We'll just have to be very careful to keep our service quality up," Strigl said.

Report: Google shows phone prototype to vendors

Analyst are skeptical if this phone will even become popular with all of the hype. Check back in later months to get updates as to when Google will launch their software.

iPhone video Converters

Posted as a review from cnet.com

There's no shortage of video-to-iPhone converters on the market, but these two freeware contenders do a more-than-decent job of making individual files iPhone-ready. Don't expect much interface gloss or batch conversion with either. However, both apps quickly produce workable iPhone videos without much fuss.

Free Video to iPhone Converter tells it like it is. The rough 'n' ready app takes up minimal screen space and memory. Browsing for links and converting quickly is easy, since there aren't too many additional tabs or buttons where you can get lost. There is, however, a useful function for trimming videos before converting them.

Videora is a larger and busier, app by Red Kawa. On the plus side, Videora lets you format videos for iPhones and three flavors of iPods, including the iPod Touch. You can also browse for and convert YouTube videos online. Videora's multiple tabs and settings let you control advanced encoding and conversion details; it can also pop the finished product straight into iTunes (download,) which can in turn autosync to your iPhone.

Step-by-step prompting (which you can step down or turn off) is useful for walking you through the process, but the double-pane interface adds confusion and superfluous steps for an essentially simple program. The end product was just as good as Free Video to iPhone Converter, but took far more clicks and doesn't have the added advantage of trimming a clip. Dragging a file to the iTunes library is hardly a hardship, though Videora's autoload feature is still a convenient perk.

I currently prefer Free Video to iPhone Converter myself, though Videora will appeal to those further up the power user scale.

Nokia Offers Free Year's Worth of Music with New Handsets

Nokia revealed a new program today called Comes With Music. Nokia will offer handset users free access to music from their handset for one year. Once the year is up, users can continue or halt the subscription. Either way, they can keep all the music they've downloaded during the course of the year. The catalog of music to be available will start with that from Universal Music Group. Nokia is talking to other labels to add their catalogs as well. Nokia did not state when the program will launch, how exactly music will be browsed and delivered to the handset, which handsets the service will be compatible with, nor which countries this service would work in.