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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocket now calm and we are at the verizon wireless national test lab in bedminster New Jersey pocketnow was invited to an exclusive tour of the facilities here so I'm very curious to see what we have inside here and hopefully learned some interesting things too so we'll see you soon so here we are in the verizon building on our way to the phone lab see in a second so here we are about to enter a shielded room where a lot of testing is done there are Moulton side of this facility here to test various things we're going to go inside and take a look at it okay we're not inside of a bomb shelter right now this is actually a shielded room meaning that I do not have any cell phone reception of course the purpose of this is so that Verizon can isolate all the or kind of cut out all the signals from various radio frequencies and be able to test devices a very isolated environment so the floor or advantage that Nancy static floor so they've got everything covered here pretty much it's just a variety of testing equipment each one of these towers kind of represents a network so that they can get into a particular Network get a GPS feed if necessary things like that and then they have these boxes which are also shielded boxes and the purpose for this is so that they can do tests inside of a box somebody opens one of the exterior doors then some signal may get in but if the device is being tested inside one of these are enclosures then there will be no signal leak in there and if you've ever wondered why your device has a port for the antenna on the back or for the GPS that's we're testing so the verizon or the carrier can plug into your device in the lab and get readings off of it and that sort of thing when it's kind of in this isolated environment so here we are in the audio room this is where verizon has their their manufacturers make sure that they adhere to certain audio requirements so that the earpiece isn't too loud or so The Vow the microphone is sensitive enough so they have these chambers they're completely soundproof they have a dummy inside of it with a fake silicon ear that allows you to kind of replicate the human ear and this is where they make sure that everything sounds okay when you get the phone at the store so this apparatus is actually supposed to model the density of a human head so inside there's a kind of watery saline solution and this this test is used so that they put a cell phone on one side of the head and they make sure that you know if you're traveling down the highway for example and you're getting a signal from this side of your body that the there's no interference from your head that will block the cell phone signal and this is supposed to be an average human sized head with a replicated density we have kind of a Museum of old verizon phones and I think some of these will look familiar to you so you've got the old ESN reader you've got a lot of kind of car phones that your mom and dad may have had or even your grandparents and then we have the zack morris phone right here or a variation of it it is extremely heavy and it has a screen that can only display a few numbers of course with a massive battery it's basically just a battery a few buttons and a large antenna alright and then we start to get into the smaller form factors like the StarTAC or kind of the predecessor to the star tech and then we have some other candy bar devices and then they make a dramatic leap from these kind of thick form factors to the smaller ones down here and there's the kind of the end the last startech here the silver one which a lot of people had and then we get to into some smartphones so we have some palm based smartphones down here kyocera model and of course the Samsung I 300 but you may remember and then we continue we get smaller and smaller and then we get to some modern-day phones but the timeline kind of stops here at around two thousand two so we have you know the samsung 830 up here behind the side then we also see some pagers this is one of the original pagers but of course I didn't have a screen so you got a page from someone you didn't know who was coming from unless well if one person at your pager number then you know who was paging you then you have the old-style motorola pagers doctors lawyers some of them still actually use pager today so that is the verizon museum a lot of interesting devices that i think a lot of us remember from the best alright guys that pretty much concludes the tour of the verizon national test lab be sure you check out the right up on pocketnow.com where i'll tell you all the details that you didn't see on camera you know the stuff that i can talk about course that's it for now