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Verizon getting over the air updates for iPhone iOS

May 5th, 2011 by Joseph Ruthaford

If you ever owned an iPhone you know when a new update hits the iOS you needed to go to iTunes and plug in the device and select the update. This would give you all the new updates for the iOS ect, well it looks like Apple is working with Verizon to change all of that. Starting this fall Apple will be giving over the air updates to their iPhones.

Sources say the new feature will debut in iOS 5, meaning iOS 5 will not come over-the-air but following point updates to it will. Just like tethering in iOS 3, Apple has the technology but cannot just unleash it everywhere. Apple and Verizon Wireless are said to have been in talks over these wireless software updates since early this year. Sources could not comment on whether or not Apple is negotiating similar deals with AT&T or international iPhone carriers.

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