Indiana Teen Creates Death Ray

I have always loved seeing what the inquisitive minds of today's kids can come up with. Today while looking through the online pages of Gizmodo, I came across this story "Teen Glued 5,800 Mirrors Onto Satellite Dish For SOLAR DEATH-RAY".

It turns out that an Indiana teen (Eric Jacqmain, 19 years old) created this portable death ray unit (for $90) on wheels using an old satellite dish and a make shift cart. He even went and made a You Tube video out of it to show off its use.

Pretty interesting idea....Check out the video below, enjoy the nice music with it too.

Gizmodo article link

Verizon gets the iPhone 4

Well folks its official, Can ya hear me Now.....

Verizon has the iPhone 4 on its network as a 3G phone.

This morning, Verizon had a press conference with Tim Cook, Apple's COO and Verizons Chief Executive Lowell Macadam on stage to give the presentation. Macadam spoke about how Verizon has upgraded its network and how their performance has been growing. Also, for over two years now they have been working with Apple.

But, today they are announcing that Verizon will be partnering with an industry giant "Apple". Then the official announcement "iPhone 4 Coming to Verizon Early Next Month!"The iPhone 4 has now been designed to work on the Verizon CDMA network. It will have all the features the GSM iPhone owners have come to enjoy, like a Retina display and FaceTime for video chatting. The unit will also have the same A4 chip, 5 MP camera, and integrated ecosystem that made the iPhone 4 so popular.

Beginning February 3rd, existing customers can pre-order the iPhone 4. Then on February 10th, new customers can pre-order the iPhone 4. The pricing will be the same: $199 for 16 GB, $299 for 32GB, with tethering included for up to 5 devices.

For the past year Verizon has been testing 1,000 CDMA iPhones on its network and the results have been very good. They couldn't be happier with the results. The leaked images of the re-design of the antenna were correct. This was done so it can work on the CDMA network.

Questions were asked about why they didn't come out with a LTE phone. Cook answered that the reasons were 1) The first LTE baseband controllers required changes to design Apple was unwilling to make. 2) Customers wanted the iPhone on Verizon ASAP.

There is one thing though, the Verizon iPhone users will not be able to be on the phone and use data at the same time. Cook doesn't believe Verizon customers will have an issue with this and will be willing to make the trade off.

That's all folks. The whole event was over in 30 mins flat...

Can Ya Hear Me Now.....iPhone

Well it looks like the rumors are now finally becoming more of a fact when it comes to the Apple iPhone coming to the Verizon network. On Friday it came out as a short trickle. Then the Wall Street Journal made it more official. By going into detail that Verizon was having a press conference with Steve Jobs on stage to so they can announce the new Verizon CDMA iPhone.


Today the WSJ (Wall Street Journal) was reporting that the Verizon iPhone will be available in stores by the end of the month.

The transition from the AT&T monopoly should be an interesting venture. One of the biggest problems before has been that time and time again customers would be complaining about network performance and pointing the finger with AT&T. As people do leave AT&T, it will be interesting to see if the network performance improves or degrades..

Part of me does wonder what Verizon will do with people who are already on their network when it comes to upgrading early. Will they make a rule to the exception and allow people to get their iPhone sooner or make them wait till their contract is up ?

I do think that Verizon will being Millions of users to the iPhone. But, the true test will be once the people have it and start taxing the network. Will it be the same problem AT&T encountered ? or will it be when someone says "Can ya hear me now" you will hear back Yep cause im on the Verizon network lol...

The other thing i wonder is what will happen with the typical iPhone upgrade coming to Apple will Verizon be part of this upgrade or will it have to wait since the CDMA phones are the new kids on the block. For months now rumors have been popping up of a CDMA/GSM phone.

If Apple came out with this option it could be an amazing phone to have, esp. for the world traveler where many of the places outside of the US use the GSM network.