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Posted: Jul 30 2010, 08:28 AM

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http://gizmodo.com/5598966/whats-inside-at...onolith-display

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My best friend is a manager at an at&t corporate store. He had to go into the store at 1:30am to allow some people to set up the display in his store
If he looks inside this covered display he will be fired instantly. Same goes for anyone else who looks in this display. When he arrived to unlock the doors and let the people in he was forced to sit in the back for 4 hours while they set this display up. His store was under surveillance and he was not permitted to look at the store cameras or go into his office where the cameras were. If he backs the tapes up to look he will be fired. The worker told him that there are only 25 people in the company that’s setting it up who know what the display is (if they talk they will get fired.) He was told that if the guy was to get pulled over while the stuff was in the back of the truck, the guy would have to do whatever he could to keep the cop from looking in the back of the truck. If the cop did look he was required to get as much information about the cop as possible, badge number ect.

He told me they were going to open it last Sunday then an email came through and told them no go on it. So who know now.

What could it be?

This post has been edited by Apex Carver on Jul 30 2010, 08:28 AM

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Tessou	Posted: Jul 30 2010, 08:34 AM
More NEGATIVE than a black hole Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 19,345 Member No.: 12,263 Joined: Sep 12th 2005 Location: Update Profile	It's a bomb, and he's gullible. I'd like to think it's something amazing, but it's just going to be another dumb superphone with a billion apps that I would never need in a phone.
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Posted: Jul 30 2010, 08:41 AM

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QUOTE (Tyrael @ 6 minutes, 48 seconds ago)

It's a bomb, and he's gullible.

I'd like to think it's something amazing, but it's just going to be another dumb superphone with a billion apps that I would never need in a phone.

They're called smartphones, not superphones.

And for the thousands of apps that you might not use, the one that you do will make up for it.

One of those apps is WorldCard Mobile, for example.

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Shirogane	Posted: Jul 30 2010, 08:58 AM
SCREEEEEEECHING INTENSIFIES Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,595 Member No.: 17,722 Joined: May 10th 2006 Location: Washington	I'm having a hard time understanding this, but are they not allowed to look at this... black pillar? Edit: I'm an idiot. This post has been edited by JZX100 on Jul 30 2010, 09:01 AM

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Posted: Jul 30 2010, 10:38 AM

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QUOTE (Apex Carver @ 1 hour, 57 minutes ago)

They're called smartphones, not superphones.

And for the thousands of apps that you might not use, the one that you do will make up for it.

One of those apps is WorldCard Mobile, for example.

The only app I use on my phone is the one that lets me call people. I don't need a superphone for that.

Yes. Superphone.

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Kamui	Posted: Jul 30 2010, 10:43 AM
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Posted: Jul 30 2010, 10:51 AM

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QUOTE (Tyrael @ 12 minutes, 49 seconds ago)

The only app I use on my phone is the one that lets me call people. I don't need a superphone for that.

Yes. Superphone.

http://img.search.com/thumb/c/c5/Superphon...-Superphone.jpg

Superphone is a term invented by Google to make its smartphone appear better than other smartphones.

And a relevant pic :

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Jason_H.	Posted: Jul 30 2010, 10:55 AM
Safe On Block Group: Advanced Members Posts: 1,900 Member No.: 1,239 Joined: Feb 5th 2004 Location: Whitehall, PA	Some kind of mind control device or neutron bomb? Pretty stupid if they wouldn't let police search it. REALLY stupid.

Tessou	Posted: Jul 30 2010, 10:56 AM
More NEGATIVE than a black hole Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 19,345 Member No.: 12,263 Joined: Sep 12th 2005 Location: Update Profile	Okay, guess that rock skipped a bit further than I thought it would before it sunk in. The superphone was a modification The Doctor made to his companions' phones so they could use them regardless of where they were in time and space. And that pic ain't my phone. I have an LG Chocolate that has seen better days. This post has been edited by Tyrael on Jul 30 2010, 10:57 AM
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Posted: Jul 30 2010, 10:58 AM

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QUOTE (Tyrael @ 2 minutes, 28 seconds ago)

Okay, guess that rock skipped a bit further than I thought it would before it sunk in. The superphone was a modification The Doctor made to his companions' phones so they could use them regardless of where they were in time and space.

And that pic ain't my phone. I have an LG Chocolate that has seen better days.

Too bad the term exist outside of that specific universe ( and is a term used by people who don't know any better

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Tessou	Posted: Jul 30 2010, 11:01 AM
More NEGATIVE than a black hole Group: ADMINISTRATOR Posts: 19,345 Member No.: 12,263 Joined: Sep 12th 2005 Location: Update Profile	And I had no idea it was actually a term used in the industry. I always knew it as just another Doctor Who gadget.
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Posted: Jul 30 2010, 11:02 AM

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QUOTE (Tyrael @ 1 minute, 7 seconds ago)

And I had no idea it was actually a term used in the industry. I always knew it as just another Doctor Who gadget.

Sorry man, looks like we were both unaware of the other implication of the term.

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