Today I get back to work and the buzz is the iPhone 4 has reception problems. I am on day 5 with the iPhone 4 and have yet to have a problem.
This weekend we drove up and down the Columbia River Gorge on our way to Spokane. The iPhone 4 performed just as well as my old 3Gs (which is now my wife’s) and my brothers Verizon Droid.
So I do not believe rumors about reception issues.
At the very end we drive by the burned out car that started the fire.
This thing brought traffic to a standstill for a good hour.
UPDATE:This footage was shot from my iPhone 4. The text and the bottom of the screen was also added via iMovie for iPhone 4.
Been pretty busy, its finally nice outside and I just scored an iPhone 4. All that adds up to not much blogging.
Be back with some cool stuff soon.
While I was at the Washington Search and Rescue conference I took the map and compass class. The instructors showed us the Brunton 54LU. What makes this compass special is the ability to hold the bezel at eye level and read your bearing in a gun-sight like fashion. You look though the bezel, at a line, which you align with your landmark, below that line you can plainly read the degrees. This thing is sooo slick. Of every compass that was brought to the class, this was by far the most accurate.
Today for kicks I decided to see if it was on Brunton’s site. And to my surprise it was not! Some poking around and I found it in REI’s outlet AND buried an discontinued notice on Brunton’s site.
I am totally puzzled as to why Brunton would do this. Maybe they are coming out with something better? Or maybe the love they were getting from search and rescue was just not enough. Either way, I did not take any chances on missing this so I ordered mine from REI.
The original list price on these things was around $180, so $70 at REI is not that bad. Why such an expensive compass? Well take a range of compasses out and do some sighting, you will find that not all are created equally.
Just as a closing note for you survival/outdoorsy types. Maps and compass never run out of batteries and should be one of your core skills
Sussex is trying to make lack for freedom more user friendly by creating an app to start the renewal process.
Danger Room outlined a list of people who have been caught hunting Bin Laden.
So tell me this. Why put a $25 mil reward on someone if you did not want to attract bounty hunters from all over to try and kill said target? Do you really think the hajjis can wrap their heads around $25 mil? Why not make the reward 250 goats? Maybe then you would get some local takers.
People if you are trying to pre-order an iPhone, do it at Best Buy. I tried all morning to do it through Apple (phone and online) and AT&T. I was in and out of Best Buy within 10 min.
Of course you have to go back to the store on the 24th. And they have to set it up there. Hopefully that will not be a problem.
Not because its not cool.
Not because I am tired of waiting, which I am.
But because I am totally getting an iPhone 4.
