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Popular British phone retailer Phones4U have just unveiled a new program that would fit most consumers that prefer changing phones quite often. The program called JUMP which means “Just Upgrade My Phone” will require every customer who avails to sign two contracts upon a purchase of a phone.

Aside from the network contract, every consumer must commit to a contract with Phones4U that would require them to pay a minimal monthly fee to the retailer as well. For example, if you purchase an iPhone 4S on a contract, which is normally free with a 35 GBP a month subscription fee to a network, customers that join JUMP should also pay an additional 22.99 for the phone itself and when the iPhone 5 is released, they would automatically get the phone for free assuming the customer wants to upgrade.

AT&T is definitely aiming towards a different company as they’ve announce major reshuffling of their upper management executive staff. CEO and Chairman Randall Stephenson will remain on top but will have new advisors to assist him in his tasks.

Ralph de la Vega will also stay as CEO of AT&T Wireless but John Stankey was appointed to a newly created position of Group President & Chief Strategy Officer that will carry on to plan with the network’s future spectrum needs.

If you’re one of the many who have been waiting for the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx, then you’ll be happy to know that Verizon Wireless has announced the Motorola Droid Razr Maxx for January 26 which is two days from now.

The phone is being offered for about $300 with a two-year contract of course. For those who don’t know, the Droid Razr Maxx features Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with an Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade coming soon, an 8 megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture, a 32Gb memory is present with 16GB via internal memory and 16GB supplied by a microSD card.

You can visit Verizon for more details about the device.

Apple has today announced that they have acquired a company named Anobit, which is a company that manufactures flash memory parts. The company is situated in Israel and has been silently providing companies like Apple with their flash storage needs.

Apple garners 23 percent of the entire world’s demand for flash memory storage parts and it just makes sense that they acquire something of great importance to their existing and future products like Anobit.

Flash Storage parts are found in most Apple products since they are proved to be faster and almost always silent than the traditional hard drive.

Verbatim has unveiled today a new flash drive that features the Micro USB drive technology. The drive is designed to be rugged and very tiny allowing for easy handling. Each of these little drives can be clipped on a keychain through a hole fitted on it’s cap.

Capacities come from 4GB to 32 GB while prices start at $19.99. They are also offered in a variety of colors including black, green, blue, orange and purple. Moreover, they come with a lifetime warranty.

There were countless of products showcased in this year’s CES event, while most of them where smartphones and tablets, there were also a handful of accessories that I think is worth talking about.

One of them is the SolarKindle, an accessory developed by SolarFocus Technology, and uses solar energy to power up the Amazon Kindle Fire. The guys behind the product claim the SolarKindle to provide up to 3 months of energy leaving the conventional charger ALMOST useless.

The accessory serves as your eReader’s case while it’s front panel sucks up the solar energy it needs. The product is slated for a release on January 15 for only $79.99.

Samsung has announced the new Galaxy Ace Plus for the UK market next month through online phone store Expansys. The phone has been listed with a February 13 release date and comes with a price tag of 249.99 GBP.

The smartphone sports a 3.65-inch HVGA touchscreen and is powered by a 1 GHz processor. It’s camera comes in a 5 megapixel one complete with auto-focus and LED flash. Connectivity features include Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi and 3G while it’s storage comes in the form of a 3GB built-in memory with microSD card support.

You can pre-order the Samsung Galaxy Ace Plus from Expansys as we speak.

With every release of a new iPhone, iPad and an iOS software update, comes a new era of Jailbreak fanboys who are waiting for the release of well, a jailbreak for their device or software.

Now, it’s the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 users and the practically “un-jailbreakable” iOS version that’s been waiting for an announcement of a jailbreak and from what we hear, the long wait could almost be over.

pod2G is reportedly working on a untethered jailbreak that would work for A5-equipped iOS devices which include the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2 though no exact release date has been given out as of yet.

Designed and made by a company called DID Corporation, the unofficial Steve Jobs action figure will start shipping in time for the Apple founder’s February 24th birthday.

The doll is intricately designed displaying the highest possible detail possible in an action figure. The package comes with him and the original Macintosh which was launched in 1984.

The dolls are a hundred dollars a pop and will start shipping by the end of February. (Shipping costs not included)