Outside of possible FCC filings, Motorola has largely been coy about just what its next major smartphone will be -- until now. The firm's Dennis Woodside just revealed at D11 that the new flagship will be called Moto X (previously rumored as the X Phone), and that it will be built in a Fort Worth, Texas factory that was once used to make Nokia phones. Woodside isn't giving away many details at this stage, although he teases that the smartphone will "know what you want to do before you do." Oh, and he has a Moto X in his pocket... not that he's about to show us anything just yet, of course. If you're curious about Woodside's actual quote, it's below:
"It'll be the first Motorola smartphone built in the United States. It'll be built in Texas -- we'll employ around 2,000 people. It's right outside of Fort Worth in a 500,000 square foot facility that was previously used to build Nokia phones."
Update: Woodside had two extra nuggets while on stage -- he mentioned that the Moto X will be "broadly distributed" across numerous carriers, a rarity for Motorola smartphones in recent years. Specifically, he noted: "The Moto X is going to be broadly distributed -- that's a first for Motorola in a number of years. The support of the carriers has been fantastic." In other words, this won't be a Nexus device, and you can count on some amount of skinning and bloatware to muddle things up. On the issue of battery life, Woodside said: "I'll save the details for later, but [the industry issue of] battery life is a huge problem. Motorola has some of the world's best engineers and systems designers who spend their lives on that problem. There are two processors in the device that creates a system that allows you to do such a thing." Two processors, you say? Fascinating!
Update 2: The Moto X should arrive in late summer. Also, a reminder: Motorola mentioned a shift toward stock Android coming later this year. While there isn't any guarantee that the Moto X will embrace that philosophy, it would be a fitting poster child.
Many, if not most, TV meteorologists in major media markets know perfectly well Planet X/Nibiru is causing a lot of extreme weather events, but they are not admitting this. Instead, little lies are inserted such as "most intense lightning stormsin some time" when it is much more likely this was one of the worst lightning storms in Houston history.
Many Hitchcock, Texas, residents say hail storm did more damage than Hurricane Ike. The weathermen cannot claim this is typical for Texas because it simply is not true. Softball sized hail is not normal, even in the big State of Texas. It is not normal to have thousands of lightning strikes in one hour.
A look at Houston’s super lightning storm
Thursday, April 4, 2013 Houston had one of its most intense lightning storms in some time late Tuesday night. How intense? For the answer I turned to Dick Orville, a professor of meteorology at Texas A&M University who helped establish a network that tracks lightning in Houston.
For Tuesday night’s event you can see an hourly map here showing lightning strikes — both cloud-to-ground and within clouds — within 100 miles of Houston. Between 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. the progression of lightning across southeast Texas looked like below.
The first hour:
Lightning in Houston between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. (Texas A&M University)
The second hour:
Lightning in Houston between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m. (Texas A&M University)
The third hour:
Lightning in Houston between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. (Texas A&M University)
The number in the upper right hand corner — 118,097 in the second map — means there were that many electrical breakdowns over the time interval. According to Orville these electrical breakdowns are some unknown multiple of breakdowns per lightning flash. There, for example, could have been 10-100 “electrical breakdowns” per flash.
Which means during the 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. hour there were thousands of lightning strikes in Houston.
“Yes, there was a lot of lightning in Houston on Tuesday night,” Orville said.
HOUSTON—People in Hitchcock spent the day patching up windows on their homes and cars after an intense hail storm pounded the community Tuesday night. People said the hail was the size of softballs. “I didn’t know what to think,” Betty Whittington said.
Hail busted out the rear window of her SUV. Surveillance video captured images of the hail falling at the Bostonian Inn on Highway 6. The storm also had strong winds. “It sounded like the house was fixing to fly away,” said Hardy Whittington. Several Hitchcock police vehicles were also knocked out of service. Some people said it sounded like cannon balls were hitting their homes. “It was pretty scary. Don’t walk out the door because it probably would have knocked you out,” David Morales said. The hail also tore fenders and mirrors off cars at Dwayne’s Car Shop. Throughout the day wreckers were hauling cars totaled by the storm. Sonia Mendoza’s kids were screaming and took cover. A section of her home’s roof caved in around midnight. “It’s horrible and the cleanup is going to be worse,” she said. Stained glass windows at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church were also broken. Parishoners were collecting the pieces so the windows imported from Italy could be repaired. The storm moved through in just a matter of minutes. Still hours later, Betty Whittington was still shaken. “I’ve been through hurricanes, but I’ve never been through anything like that that happened last night about midnight,” she said. Many residents said not even Hurricane Ike did this much damage.http://www.khou.com/weather/Hitchcook-residents-amazed-by-hail-storm-damage--201347271.html
... We have spoken often of the fragility of the cover-up, in that those who are participating have been told that panic is the larger enemy but primarily because they have also been told that no such cataclysmic event as we have described will occur. They have been told that the monster will pass, and that later, when the danger is past, the public could be told. Heads of state, media personalities, weathermen and astronomers alike are told this line, and mostly they believe it because the heart wants to believe this. But what happens when the lie is revealed, and the Earth tips into days of darkness for the northern hemisphere? This most certainly will be accompanied by a disturbed jet stream beyond what the weatherman can imagine, as cold air moves to warm zones of lighter, heated air, while simultaneously being pushed by the rotation of the globe, an unknown maelstrom of fierce and unpredictable storms.... http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta179.htm
ZetaTalk: Trend Lines written June 11, 2005
We predicted in 1995 the current weather trends, in 1999 the nature of the increase in hurricanes and tornadoes, and in 2000 that snow in summer could be anticipated. We also predicted in 1995 the magnetic disruption caused by confusing directives from Planet X and the Sun. We predicted in 1995 the increase in earthquake and in 2001 that volcanic activity would increase on a lineal basis. All these trends are now becoming obvious, though not yet admitted by the establishment controlled media. Will these trends continue? They will rapidly become worse, in the eyes of horrified man, as a threshold has been crossed where all are above what mankind can consider normal, and all the trend lines are moving up, simultaneously. When the dragon has raised its head above ground, and continues to rise so the horror of its wings and claws and long lashing tail can be seen, man understands what has been occurring during its climb, and that the worse is yet to come....
The weatherman already simply shrugs his shoulders and admits it has all become unpredictable, no longer looking uncomfortable when records are being broken daily. A bit of noise is made about Global Warming, hoping to distract those who cannot put more than one fact and another together, but this hardly addresses the quakes and volcanic activity..... http://www.zetatalk.com/index/zeta226.htm
Oh brother.... (Reuters) - A Texas man used a gun to commit suicide in the infield of a National Rifle Association-sponsored NASCAR race at the Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth...
First thought: "Ha!" Second thought: "Oh, wait -- competition is an excellent thing." While it's highly probable that AT&T is looking to both overshadow Google's launch party and maintain a foothold in one of its most prized states, the outfit's terse announcement of an impending 1Gbps fiber network should honestly be seen as nothing but excellent news for residents of Austin. Merely hours after Google and the city of Austin jointly made clear that Google Fiber would be hitting up local homes in mid-2014, Ma Bell has made public its "intent" to built a 1 Gigabit fiber network in the same area.
AT&T's expanded fiber plans in Austin anticipate it will be granted the "same terms and conditions as Google on issues such as geographic scope of offerings, rights of way, permitting, state licenses and any investment incentives." Of course, it's seriously unlikely AT&T will offer up basic fiber connections for free in the way that Google's doing, but on a macro level, we certainly hope this type of one-upping continues in more towns across the country. And, more specifically, that AT&T continues to roll out fiber networks on its own accord in various locales; with FiOS expansion indefinitely paused, we sure need someone to step up and keep the dream alive.
