Teardown: Inside the Verizon iPhone

2/8/2011 12:04 AM EST

"The handset uses a Qualcomm MDM6600 capable of handling GSM, CDMA, GPRS/EDGE and HSPA+ networks"

So basically the chip can handle GSM & EDGE and is OK for international roaming unlike described by many!

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-19512_7-20030117-233.html

I guess the problem is you are forced to pay roaming rates to verizon since an external sim cant be added!

2/8/2011 2:11 AM EST

THE LED's (back-light)used in certain Verizon manufactured in china (check) iPhones have a wavelength that can and does harm the human physiology .
the lights damage soft-tissue (eyes and brain) , so ask an LED engineer about this assault on the American citizen , especially those elected officials in washington dc , who get FREE VERIZON cell phones and service as a perk.

next week should be tragic , if these 'specialized' high output LED iPhones , made in China, are released .
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2/8/2011 2:13 AM EST

the LED 'killer-tech' was designed by Qstar ,
a privately held corporation with the stock held by the grandchildren of c.i.a. director leon pinettas :

2/8/2011 2:16 AM EST

see also , Google " aero tech led lights"

here , i will assist you , via Google :

copy and paste in a new browser window :
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&client=ubuntu&channel=cs&ie=UTF-8&q=aero+tech+led+lights

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2/8/2011 2:22 AM EST

see here also for light than can seriously injure , over repeated exposure , including LED (see posts immediately , me , above :

copy and paste in a new browser window :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet
other search terms , Google , injurious LED lights , extrapolate .
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2/8/2011 2:23 AM EST

Ultraviolet LEDs
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) can be manufactured to emit light in the ultraviolet range, although practical LED arrays are very limited below 365 nm. LED efficiency at 365 nm is about 5-8%, whereas efficiency at 395 nm is closer to 20%, and power outputs at these longer UV wavelengths are also better. Such LED arrays are beginning to be used for UV curing applications, and are already successful in digital print applications and inert UV curing environments. Power densities approaching 3,000 mW/cm2 (30 kW/m2) are now possible, and this, coupled with recent developments by photoinitiator and resin formulators, makes the expansion of LED-cured UV materials likely.
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[edit]Ultraviolet lasers
UV laser diodes and UV solid-state lasers can be manufactured to emit light in the ultraviolet range. Wavelengths available include 262, 266, 349, 351, 355, and 375 nm. Ultraviolet lasers have applications in industry (laser engraving), medicine (dermatology and keratectomy), secure communications, and computing (optical storage). They can be made by applying frequency conversion to lower-frequency lasers, or from Ce:LiSAF crystals (cerium doped with lithium strontium aluminum fluoride), a process developed in the 1990s at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[9]

2/8/2011 2:26 AM EST

iPhone possibility (please excuse multiple posts , this stuff is REAL) !!!!

let me take your picture with my new iPhone from verizon.... snap

oh fuk! i'm blind !
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2/8/2011 7:22 AM EST

I have never seen a company as lucky as iPhone. They get free press and even things that are not news are made news for Apple. From CNN to EETimes, the world cannot have less of Apple. Who cares what is inside iPhone? They are just lucky folks getting free lead articles and doing great on it.

2/8/2011 11:25 AM EST

OK Mr. Webb, I'm confused. First you are talking about the back lighting, then you are talking about the flash. Mmmmmm. I doubt that by the time any light gets through the display materials and the glass that any UV is present. Most types of glass absorb UV. I doubt the iPhone has a quarts display... As far as the flash, every camera phone flash in the last 5 years uses an LED. Sounds way too conspiratorial for me..

2/8/2011 3:14 PM EST

Where's the WiFi chip?

2/8/2011 3:59 PM EST

Who produced the wifi Combo?

2/8/2011 4:19 PM EST

Mr. Webb is indeed paranoid. The LEDs in phones are very different from the ones he posted links to, MUCH lower power, and not UV light emitting. Just another wingnut with too much time on his hands....

2/8/2011 10:13 PM EST

Which GPS module is iPhone 4 using for A-GPS? Does this phone support satellite based navigation? or does this only use cell towers for location triangulation?

2/10/2011 9:19 AM EST

what is the total cost after the tearing so we estimate the Apple margin. who knows - for such if the cost of this is less than $200

2/12/2011 1:35 PM EST

Interesting article...but a fully global phone? That is really going to something I would like to see. Please do a follow-up on that topic.