Spot Connect

Hi Nick , are you sure they are using Spot-Connect?

Spot Connect has the feature where you can blue tooth any message you want once your out in the field from your smart phone.

Cheers

On my recent trip I had SMS to my own phone as well as a friend, and dropped them a 'we have arrived message' each day. When I checked I had received an SMS to my phone within about a minute of sending it, without exception.

Undertand your point, but it seems to work quite well.

Troll,

I'd hang off on the Inmarsat for a little while. I think there are a few issues with this phone/satellite system that are starting to mature now that a few people have them and are trying to use them.

Member Jaydub has mentioned to me in recent weeks that his phone was near useless on their recent GSD trip having just bought it in June. I know I was certainly trying to contact him and utilised their "free" SMS system to provide assistance in their travels but very few were received and no phone calls got through. We ended up going back to his iridium unit.

I may be wrong but as it’s a fairly new product and service, I’d be letting it rest until there are a few users about to provide feedback. I wish someone had advised me accordingly on the Globalstar phone I bought a few years back lol.

Cheers Mick

Thanks Mick,

Intersting comments, I have read really good reviews on them and actually spoke to their sales people at the camping show the other day and he told me that the 000 calling will be fixed very soon as well.

Will monitor closely

Mick

I've got a Globalstar doorstop also!

I ended up ordering a Spot 2 from the US I figured with the iPhone there are just 2 many things that can go wrong and if I run out of battery on the phone I can't send text, you can still send a emergency help should you run out of juice from the device, getting no reply back was the decider for me.

I will get a sat phone next to complete my emergency needs.

Looks very intersting