Boating, Turning SmartPhone into Satellite phone
We've all heard the ads for I Heart Radio where a whiny smartphone says; "I want to be a radio, too!" Fine and dandy, be a freakin' radio but what good is it if you are out of the cell phone network like broke down off-shore?
A bunch of new offerings have emerged where your smartphone can become a Satellite phone even when there is no network available. They use bluetooth to connect to the sats and they aren't cheap (apps $200 sat service $100) but they may save your life.
EPIRBS are costly and you can't talk over them but I'd rather trust them than this new technology. Some might ask why spend $800 on an EPIRB when you already have your $400 smartphone? To each his own! Get info on the sat apps on line.
Boatguy Ed (boatguiEd@aol.com) is the manufacturer of the worlds BEST anti-fouling bottom paint,www.supershipbottom.com. TWEET me @boatguyed and a corresponding web site is http://www.boatingbyboatguyed.com/........ NEVER, EVER TRY TO BUY HIM A DRINK!
A bunch of new offerings have emerged where your smartphone can become a Satellite phone even when there is no network available. They use bluetooth to connect to the sats and they aren't cheap (apps $200 sat service $100) but they may save your life.
EPIRBS are costly and you can't talk over them but I'd rather trust them than this new technology. Some might ask why spend $800 on an EPIRB when you already have your $400 smartphone? To each his own! Get info on the sat apps on line.
Boatguy Ed (boatguiEd@aol.com) is the manufacturer of the worlds BEST anti-fouling bottom paint,www.supershipbottom.com. TWEET me @boatguyed and a corresponding web site is http://www.boatingbyboatguyed.com/........ NEVER, EVER TRY TO BUY HIM A DRINK!
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