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New Pocket-Size Satellite Phone. Cool But....
cbs47 ^ | 7-1-09 | cakid1

Posted on 07/01/2009 3:36:52 PM PDT by cakid1

How about no more "dead zones" on your cell phone?

How about a phone that's potentially better than the new Apple iPhone, or the new Palm Pre?

How about a new satellite phone?

TerreStar Networks will launch the...

(Excerpt) Read more at community.cbs47.tv ...


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Could be great.

But no word yet on the cost.

1 posted on 07/01/2009 3:36:52 PM PDT by cakid1
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To: GOP Poet

ping


2 posted on 07/01/2009 3:40:27 PM PDT by GOP Golfer
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New Pocket-Size Satellite Phone. Cool But.... you need marmoset sized fingers to operate it.
3 posted on 07/01/2009 3:42:15 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: cakid1
Very happy with my Apple iPhone. Can use it just about anywhere..or only a few miles later (always a temporary dead zone--valley between hill, mountains. Was easy to use overseas where most would visit.

I do not live within a city... A mini computer in hand. Dependable.

4 posted on 07/01/2009 3:45:15 PM PDT by fight_truth_decay
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> provide coverage across the United States and Canada, including Puerto Rico and Hawaii. After a few months of testing, TerreStar intends to commence service later this year. <

A few more months. Plus looks like their 1st market would be 1st responders just in case a Katrina-like disaster happens and dead zones occur.


5 posted on 07/01/2009 3:45:40 PM PDT by max americana
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To: TigersEye

Maybe it comes with a marmoset.


6 posted on 07/01/2009 3:46:49 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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An artist's depiction of the massive TerreStar-1 satellite, the world's largest, in orbit. Credit: Space Systems/Loral. (Launched today)

7 posted on 07/01/2009 4:12:27 PM PDT by cabojoe
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To: TigersEye

:)


8 posted on 07/01/2009 4:19:35 PM PDT by cakid1
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To: cakid1

9 posted on 07/01/2009 4:20:25 PM PDT by Costumed Vigilante (Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
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To: fight_truth_decay

I love the iPhone too.
But take heart, according to the article:

“....The chip used in the phone is the same as the one used in Apple’s popular iPhone, which means that Apple wouldn’t have to start from scratch if, say, the company wanted to make an iPhone compatible with the service.”


10 posted on 07/01/2009 4:23:25 PM PDT by cakid1
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To: cabojoe

I got to work on Terrestar for a while. It was going to be an absolutely massive satellite. It will be interesting to see if the antenna deploys correctly.

Congratulations to the Loral team. Terrestar launched successfully today from South America. I think that a Loral-built Sirius/XM satellite also launched successfully today in Russia.


11 posted on 07/01/2009 4:33:55 PM PDT by Rio (Don't make me come over there....)
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To: cakid1

0’s behind this. They’re easy to tap.


12 posted on 07/01/2009 4:36:34 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (The plan... 0 in power for life. At least that's what they told him.)
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To: Arthur McGowan
ROTFLOL

"New Sat-Phone Deluxe! Comes with your choice of marmoset or lemur. Don't let your ancestry go jobless!"

13 posted on 07/01/2009 4:37:47 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: cakid1

see #13. ;^)


14 posted on 07/01/2009 4:39:42 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Costumed Vigilante

Always with the negative waves, Moriarty.
15 posted on 07/01/2009 4:43:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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"Very happy with my Apple iPhone. Can use it just about anywhere"

I am happy to hear that you have such coverage.....but allow me to say that we have a little get-away cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains just 2 hours from Atlanta and we have NO cell coverage there. What you have to understand is that there is much of the country without i-phone coverage!!!!!!!! We paid over $200 extra to have a phone that can link into a satellite connection to phone 911 in case of a dire emergency like when hubby is on the tractor plowing the field, etc. (911 is the ONLY number it will do on the satellite connection though.

Perhaps satellite service will be welcomed by many people who the cell towers have written off as "not enough profit to be concerned with". And I hope the satellite services put the cell tower guys out of business or at least give them fits!!!!!

16 posted on 07/01/2009 4:54:40 PM PDT by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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17 posted on 07/01/2009 5:00:55 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: TigersEye

18 posted on 07/01/2009 5:03:09 PM PDT by Costumed Vigilante (Congress: When a handful of evil morons just isn't enough)
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To: Costumed Vigilante

heheheh


19 posted on 07/01/2009 5:06:00 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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To: Rio

I’m still wondering HOW the antenna deploys...


20 posted on 07/01/2009 5:26:33 PM PDT by cabojoe
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