TerreStar's Sat-Cell Genus Smartphone Available from AT&T
Makes no sense
Why on Earth would something like this be a smartphone running WinMo 6.5? That OS s dead and will soon be replaces by WP 7. And besides, the people who want a device with these features are those who are out in the middle of nowhere looking for a signal or those in a disaster area. In situations like that, you aren't looking to check your e-mail and update Facebook, you likely need help. Make the thing a ruggedized phone with basic features and long battery life, and people may bite. But if you absolutely must make it a smartphone, at least have the decency to load a current OS.
I predict that this will be a huge flop, even among its target audience, unless its target audience is high-ranking FEMA officials who want to make jaunts ou...
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I predict that this will be a huge flop, even among its target audience, unless its target audience is high-ranking FEMA officials who want to make jaunts ou...
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Makes no sense to whom?
Here's the deal. Go price satellite only phones. Then consider your need for cellular service, with or without text or data.
Consider you have your cell number, and then a sattelite phone number. Combine them, and now you have one number, which can operate over either.
Finally, this isn't consumer centric, and is for people who travel to areas without service, like national parks, and outside our borders, along our waterways, etc.
Consider the people that were lost and couldn't get help as they were outside any cell service. This would work, same number
Consider oil and gas exploration, or geologists and biologists, and those whose work, travel or sporting life takes them to areas with no standa...
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Here's the deal. Go price satellite only phones. Then consider your need for cellular service, with or without text or data.
Consider you have your cell number, and then a sattelite phone number. Combine them, and now you have one number, which can operate over either.
Finally, this isn't consumer centric, and is for people who travel to areas without service, like national parks, and outside our borders, along our waterways, etc.
Consider the people that were lost and couldn't get help as they were outside any cell service. This would work, same number
Consider oil and gas exploration, or geologists and biologists, and those whose work, travel or sporting life takes them to areas with no standa...
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