[SIZE=6]Namibian learner invents SIM-free mobile phone, which doesn’t use airtime
[B]Namibian Grade 12 learner Simon Petrus is making waves after he invented a mobile phone, which uses radio signals and doesn’t require airtime to make calls.
According to New Era, Petrus, who is a learner at Abraham Iyambo Senior Secondary School, made the phone using parts from a telephone and television set, and his invention doesn’t even need a sim-card to make calls.
The mobile device took the whiz kid two years to complete, and it has not been plain sailing for the young inventor, who faced financial difficulties. The project was funded by Petrus’ unemployed parents, who had to sacrifice over N$2 000 (U.S$ 146) to ensure that his project would be completed successfully.
The invention, which is made up of a radio system, is attached to a box and makes voice calls, while also doubling up as a TV, allowing the user to watch one TV channel. Petrus’ invention is not a fly-by-night success story. Last year the learner won a gold medal at the NamPower national schools’ competition, after he reportedly invented a machine that serves as a seed drier and cooler.
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Huyu Angekuwa kenya they would have put him in jail and mention he was tampering with police radio waves.
Reminds me a pokot primary school boy busted making a gun from wood,spring and pieces of metal was jailed for 6yrs for possession of unlicensed weapon .
Namibia would have taken this pokot boy to arm manufacturing company and nurture his talent .
Kenyans all over the country keep making helicopters, only that they don’t fly.
Just this past week I saw one with a rotating main blade and back rotor all powered by a cheap Chinese motor cycle engine.
Isn’t that genius?
he does not have to introduce it in Kenya, if the technology catches on wherever he is and turns out to be viable itafika tu… disruptive technology cannot be kept at bay for long
It is impossible to make such a system. Reason: Switching. The kind of equipment you’d need to switch radio waves would have to be the size of ENIAC, obviously not a MOBILE phone. Plus who would meet the cost of infrastructure if no airtime is sold?
The lad has an idea, but lacks direction and mentorship.
Atleast the chap has ideas, though vile @kamnjoro amesema he needs guidance. R&D costs to build that to a consumer device would ran into millions of USD, infrastructure and support services na kadhalika and ofcourse mobile services carriers would work day and night to block it from their mobile service customers. Though would like to know the chaps business case for his invention
Its good that they build, but what problem are they solving to become a commercial proposition? There are working solutions out there better built and cheaper than what they offer, so how will it take off as a business? Just because they are Kenyans doesn’t shield them from some realities
He’s in high school. A good place to start tinkering around and being imaginative, with someone to point him in the right direction who knows what he could come up with in later years, for a high school kid its a cool project for Science Congress
I wasn’t actually praising the Kenyans. It was more of being sarcastic. How do you even begin to think you can fly a helicopter with a motorcycle engine?
