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Currently the image above is the nearest thing we have to actual evidence supporting an iPhone 5 launch date. According to some internal Best Buy communication, manager’s are required to be at their stores at 6am to install an Apple fixture. This time is out of the ordinary, since they are usually required to get there for 7am. So, the question isn’t…
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Tired of waiting for AT&T to launch their first LTE devices? Yeah — so is AT&T, it would seem. So much so, in fact, that they’re prepping to launch their first LTE devices early next week… before their LTE network is even officially fired up.
So, why launch these devices before the LTE network is up and ready? Because it lets them say they’ve got LTE devices, of course. Plus, they’ll still work, to some degree — they’ll just be limited to AT&T’s not-quite-4G-but-they-call-it-4G-anyway HSPA+ network until the LTE starts to light up later this summer.
Now, before my fellow phone-geeks get too worked up: in what seems to be a trend for the carriers as of late, AT&T’s first devices to run on the new network won’t be phones — they’re laptop tethering devices.
For the lone road warriors, AT&T’s launching the USBConnect Momentum (pictured right), which’ll juice your laptop into the LTE network over USB. For the folks that roam in packs, they’re launching the Elevate (pictured up top), a MiFi-esque, 4G-powered WiFi hotspot (turn it on, let it connect to the 4G network, and connect up to 5 devices over WiFi). Both are launching on August 21st, though the price tags for these things still seem to be under wraps.
AT&T also took the opportunity to confirm the monthly pricing for LTE “data-only mobile broadband” devices (read: not phones): $50 a month gets you 5 gigabytes, with each gigabyte you use over costing you another $10. The future of data continues to look pretty damned expensive.
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He definitely won’t be flying coach. He is spending about $20 million on the interior alone. Find out what flashy goodies his plane will contain.
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Good news! If you live in Scranton, Pennsylvania, you’ll soon have one more thing to add to your list of fun things to do locally (which I assume is currently comprised of “roam around dangerous abandoned anthracite mines” and “reenact scenes from The Office”). Come July 21st, you’ll be able to surf the vast Intertubes over Verizon 4G.
Joining Scranton in the right to claim 4G coverage come July 21st: Huntsville, Alabama; Springfield, Massachusetts; Knoxville, Tennessee; Greenboro-Winston, Salem-Highpoint, and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Oh, and for my fellow Best Coasters: Los Angeles and San Diego will have their already in-place Verizon 4G coverage expanded on the 21st, as well.
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This picture: I want it airbrushed on the side of my van.
Because there’s no such thing as ruining enough lives, evangelical broadcaster/ numerological nutjob Harold Camping has stated the rapture did in fact happen over the weekend, just “spiritually”, and the end of the world is still scheduled for October 21st. Because why on (heaven or) earth would you believe some of the more explicitly stated things in the Bible when your Da Vinci Code number magic is panning out so well? Somebody get this guy to Vegas!
During a sometimes rambling, 90-minute discourse that included a question-and-answer session with reporters, Camping said he felt bad that Saturday had come and gone without the Rapture he had felt so certain would take place.
Reflecting on scripture afterward, Camping said it “dawned” on him that a “merciful and compassionate God” would spare humanity from “hell on Earth for five months” by compressing the physical apocalypse into a shorter time frame.But he insisted that Oct. 21 has always been the end-point of his own End Times chronology, or at least, his latest chronology.
Sooooooooooooo — basically more ignoring the Bible to fit your predictions. That does not sound like WJWD. Also, I’m the last one to ever speak one way or the other about religion but when you’re ‘A Beautiful Mind’ing a bunch of bullshit out of thin air and ruining your followers financial and familial lives then I start to get upset. That said, if the rapture actually was going to heralded in the way you predicted with sweeping earthquakes and fire – guess what?! Parts of Australia might not have had time to be saved but you can bet your wrinkly ol’ ass everybody else in the world would be BEGGING Jesus into their hearts or whatever before missing the boat their jetpack. Know what I’m saying? I’m saying the billboards were overkill.
Hit the jump for Camping’s actual mathematical explanation of the rapture date if you’ve never seen it before. SPOILER: zero sense. View full post on Geekologie – Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome