Thread: Neo900 - finally a successor of N900
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2013-10-14 , 16:06
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#819
Originally Posted by joerg_rw View Post
Sat phone won't work with the Neo900 alone, you definitely need a cradle(snip)
Yes, that was an Iridium, they had a thing in the 90s where the SIM would bill worldwide roaming GSM calls to your Irridium account when you had the phone popped out of the cradle.

At this point there is no reason for a cradle when you could bluetooth link any smartphone to a satcom gadget like the SPOT SMS thing above.

Someday in a very openmoko Stallmanesque future every gadget will have a great wideband SDR and it will just be a software hack and maybe an external antenna away form adding any wireless service you could want.
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