Verizon’s data share plan is scheduled to launch in mid-summer but no pricing details have been announced.

You should pay attention thou if you consider to make the next step to the upgrade with Verizon unlimited data plans are tempting, but not before they will drop the axe. The good part is that it sounds much easier and faster to split data between devices, specially for user’s which they have in use both iPad and iPhone, but any good part has a bad part, in this case we find the Sprint carrier, who has pledged that they’ll keep unlimited around even if an LTE iPhone will appear on the market eventually.

As well we can get the point of view of Fran Shammo, by not forcing to jump from 3G to 4G until 2013, and this make sense from his next statement: ”When they migrate off 3G they will have to go to data share. That is beneficial to us.”

Today, one of the most reliable news agency in the world, Reuters, reports, quoting sources close to the matter, that the US-based company is working on an iPhone that sports 4-inch display.

As you probably know, the previous generations of iPhone had a 3.5-inch display, but now the Cupertion giant plans to increase the size of the iPhone 5 screen, in an attempt to compete against its main rival, Samsung. On May 3rd, the South Korean company have unveiled the new flagship of the Galaxy line-up, Samsung Galaxy S3, a smartphone that comes with a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display with a resolution of 720 x 1,280 pixels.

Reuters’ sources reported that Apple have already placed orders for the 4-inch iPhone 5 display. It seems that the panel of the next-gen iPhone will be manufactured by three suppliers: LG Display, Sharp and Japan Display (a conglomerate consisting of the display divisions of Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi and founded by the Japanese government).

The production of iPhone 5′s 4-inch panel could begin in June, and most likely the displays will be shipped to Foxconn factory, where the production of the next iOS smartphone would begin as of August.

Since the smartphone owners are using their devices to perform tasks that require more viewing area, like watching videos and web browsing, most of the phone makers have decided to place bigger displays inside their handhelds.

iPhone 4S’ itsy-bitsy 3.5-inch screen looks microwave’s display when compared to Galaxy Nexus 4.65-inch, One X’s 4.7-inch, or Galaxy S3′s 4.8-inch panels, not to mention Galaxy Note’s titanic 5.3-inch unit. Apple must now align to this trend and create an iPhone with a bigger display. A display bigger than 4-inch might cause unrest among the Apple fanboys, thus the 4-inch solutions remains the most reliable one for the Cupertino-based company.

The technical specifications of the highly-awaited Samsung flagship are forcing Apple to create a smartphone capable to withstand the heavy pressure coming from the South Korean rival. Samsung have placed a quad-core Exynos chipset inside the Galaxy S3 and the specialists are saying that is the most powerful mobile processor ever created. Therefore, the Americans must develop a CPU capable to fight against Samsung’s Exynos 4 Quad.

Some other rumors said that the iPhone 5 will feature a liquid metal unibody case, but no concrete evidence was provided to support this theory.

A source of Techit, an Israeli tech blog, said that Nokia will release the first Windows Phone 8 smartphones by the end of 2012. The Israeli website claims that the information saying that the Windows Phone 8 Nokia smartphones will hit the market until 2012 is up comes straight from an official of the Finland-based company.

June will be a busy month for the world of mobile operating systems, as three of the most important companies involved on this segment will be presenting the new versions of their mobile platforms. Apple will showcase the new iOS 6 at WWDC 2012, Google is reportedly planning the Android 5.0 Jelly Bean launch at Google I/O event, while Bill Gates’ Microsoft have been linked with the demo of Windows Phone 8 Apollo at Windows Phone Developer Summit, scheduled for the same month.

The first two Nokia smartphones underpinned by Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7.5 Mango, Nokia Lumia 800 and Nokia Lumia 710 were unveiled at Nokia World 2011 event in October and after seeing them everyone wondered where the flagship of Nokia’s WP line-up is.

The Finns haven’t kept us waiting for too long and in January 2012, at CES, they presented the amazing Nokia Lumia 900 with LTE support, as smartphone that made the Windows Phone enthusiasts form huge lines in front of AT&T stores in their attempt to get their hands on the $100 device.

The global variant of Nokia Lumia 900 was presented at Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona and it has the same technical specifications as the US version of the handset, except for the 4G networks support.

The smallest and the cheapest Windows Phone Finnish smartphone is Lumia 610, a phone that Nokia hopes to become popular on the emergent markets.

But Nokia is the only OEM that will develop Windows Phone 8 Apollo devices. After LG announced they will no longer concentrate on Microsoft’s platform, Samsung have been linked with the mobile operating system of the Redmond-based giant. The rumor mill says that Acer will soon join the list of companies that build WP devices, as they will produce a full QWERTY smartphone underpinned by “Apollo.”

Returning to the Finland-based company, they initially announced that the current line-up of WP-powered smartphones will not be upgraded to Apollo, but a couple of weeks later they issued an official statement claiming that the Lumia smartphones will receive Windows Phone 8 upgrades.

Operated as an online bulletin board, the iPhone5.com domain was registered back in 2008. The previous owners of the domain stated that it had nothing to do with Apple whatsoever and its only purpose was knowledge and entertainment.

Apple has begun the dispute for the domain probably because the company wants to put an end to profit of its trademarks by other people. This doesn’t mean that “iPhone 5″ will be the name of its next flagship device. This aspect has not been clarified yet.

Protecting its trademarks has been something usual for Apple for some time now, this particular dispute is not the first and probably won’t be the last one either. The company spends a lot of time claiming domain names from intruders. Another example is iPad.com, domain which is not owned by Apple and has never been claimed by the american giant so far, in spite of the fact that the trademark belongs to the company since it acquired it from Fujitsu about two years ago.

Another battle that Apple had to fight is the one for the iPods.com domain which has been successfully claimed. Other domains which Apple has the trademark for but doesn’t own are iBookstore.com and iBooks.com, the latter being held by Barnes & Noble.

Even if the next-generation iPhone will be indeed named iPhone 5, it’s very unlikely that Apple actually use the domain it just claimed. In most of the cases, Apple disputes are just to protect its interests.

The real question is if the higher prices will be felt by the customers. There are two possibilities: the optimistic situation is that Apple will manage to find a method to cut costs in other areas so that the price points would remain the same. On the other hand, if Apple does’t find a way to cut costs, the price difference will be passed along to consumers.

DisplaySearch Senior Analyst Richard Shim says that the cost of a Retina 15.4-inch display with a resolution if 2880 x 1800 and a 220 ppi pixel density will be approximately $160 which is very high considering that the price of the current MacBook Pro with a standard 15-inch display is $68 (there is a $92 price increase). As for the 13-incher model of MacBook Pro, the price of the Retina Display with a 2560 x 1600 resolution is $134, a $65 adding over the screen used in the current model.

The MacBook Pro with the 17-inch screen is not mentioned, but it will probably have a 3840 x 2400 resolution and the price premium will definitely be higher over the current display. However, it’s not clear yet whether the 17-inch MacBook Pro will be upgraded like the rest of the models at the Worldwide Developers Conference, because many rumors claim that only the MacBook Pros with the 13-inch and 15-inch screens will be receiving these upgrades. Plus, it is rumored that Apple will follow its pattern to the MacBook Pro design. The company is usually upgrading the 17-inch model a few months after the other smaller models.

Richard Shim also specifies that Apple is the most probable client for the Retina resolution screens that are available in the supply chain. However, Shim is not absolutely sure if Apple is the company that is going to buy the screens to use them in its machines.

Also, it’s not clear how Apple will manage the costs which will certainly increase with upgrading to Retina screens. The optical drive will be removed, thus some of the cost savings could be achieved, but the move from traditional drives to solid-state drives will increase the costs for storage. These drives are included in the MacBook Air models which are cheaper, but the potential customers of the MacBook Pro have great expectations and a higher-capacity drive is almost mandatory, thus higher costs for the device. Therefore, with all the involved changes it will be really interesting to watch how things will evolve and what prices will Apple’s computers have.

As you probably know Diablo 3 was launched on May 15th, and as everyone expected millions of players have assaulted the Blizzard servers in an attempt to stop the hoards of demons. Unfortunately, even though the company have prepared for the post-launch chaos, the servers were unable to support the flux of players. Thus may of the players complained that were unable to connect to the servers and instead of hearing the Barbarian’s war cry they were “cursed” by a rain of errors, like the already classic  The Servers Are Busy At This Time or Please Try Again Later Error 37.

Blizzard is aware of the problem and today have posted a press release apologizing for the incontinent they caused and because the gamers lost the battle against the forces of hell the human infrastructure. The Blizzard officials have made it clear for the Diablo 3 community that they have taken measures to reduce the server problems and have decided to delay the launch of the real-money feature in Auction House in order to avoid any other inconvenience.

Talking about the Auction House in Diablo 3, the same press statement also contains the release date of the real-money feature. Thus the players who discovered unique or rare items they can sell them for real money starting May 22nd.

New details about the status of the Diablo 3 servers are expected to arrive soon, thus stay tuned.

The risk might appear if you are trying to de-authorize devices in the Google Music settings, in order not to fill up the 10 slots, but one day you can be in the situation that the music is not accessible anymore on the device, so the idea is quite scarring imagining that some users  to reupload all my music to a different account because of this.

We can hear about good news as well, because from an inside source we could find out that Google already wants to fix this issue, after they get that the community is quite unhappy about the decision they took, so Google took the decision to allow everyone to de-authorize as many times as they feel like.

We suggest to everybody not to get to much excited, because we speculate that after Google will find a better and accurately way to count the de-authorization, the limited way will become available again, so we suggest to do some de-authorizing while you still, can using the settings page from play.google.com/music and clear out the old entries.

As specs, we could say that comparative to the previous model, the new LG Optimus LTE2 has improvements like the battery, which is more efficient with 40% that first generation, with ten hours of continuous talking, and standby time up to 255 hours thanks to the 2,150mAh battery. Another interesting thing is the support for convenient wireless charging.  The power consumption, current efficiency has been enhanced by offering the communications and application processor into one chip using a chip-chip shrink.

LG Optimus LTE2 comes with a capacitive touchscreen of 16M colors 4.7-inch True HD IPS LCD,and that looks quite admirable. The processor is nothing to be a surprise, a Qualcomm S4 MSM8960 clocked at 1.5GHz, and will run the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and all this are perfectly fitted in the smatphone’s measures of 134.7 x 69.5 x 8.9mm, and weighing in at 145g.

As well we can say that the main camera is performing an 8MP quality, 3264×2448 pixels, with autofocus and LED flash, and comes with features like Geo-tagging, or face and smile detection. Along this we have a small camera in the front as well of 1.3-megapixel. We can say that in video mode, which runs in 1080p the quality is not disappointing.

We know that this is not the best smartphone on the market, but it will not make you shame in the moment you will take it out of you’re pocket. Even tough we consider that LG Optimus LTE2 will not be a threat for the big players of the market, it can play his role to help you complete you’re daily tasks, for the factory price: 935,000 won, in Korea.

We can imagine that millions of people were already expecting to have problems by accessing the domain, after was required the blocking of the site of country’s leading ISPs, but they did not anticipated the failure of many published workarounds to resupply access to the site. After the attack of Anonymous, the site workers expected the site to work properly, but currently we can notice it is not, and is unavailable in many parts of the world, being subjected to a DDoS attack how a source from inside The Pirate Bay explained.

The conflict between Anonymous and The Pirate Bay started a week ago after the attack against Virgin, (which we know they are the first ones which they wanted the shut down of The Pirate Bay), and they stated: “We do NOT encourage these actions. We believe in the open and free internets, where anyone can express their views. Even if we strongly disagree with them and even if they hate us” and “So don’t fight them using their ugly methods. DDOS and blocks are both forms of censorship.”

The good part is that no matter what method, people will still use The Pirate Bay, by the help of proxies set up to circumvent the ISP blockades, they can solve the problem of DDoS.

In a video presentation, we can see various Android apps, such as Facebook, Winamp, and some games, running on Tizen OS, without a disturbing lag, and this thanks to OpenMobile, and they have 100% compatibility. OpenMobile, is the company which helps to adapt apps, for specific platforms, to run to another as well.

The road till the end, when a finalized Tizen-powered device will hit the market, it will not be easy to introduce another platform to the masses, but as a good part, we will not have to worry about the apps, because plenty of them will be ready to use after a negotiate between OpenMobile and Samsung’s “Application Compatibility Layer”.

As a feature from Tizen, Samsung already unveiled a prototype phone, which runs Tizen OS, and inside of it we could find out some details, like including a dual-core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex A9 processor, 1 GB of RAM, and a Super AMOLED HD Plus display with 1280 x 720 resolution. Being a prototype, we can have a lot of changes till the final product.