I received the satellite phone yesterday. I was anxious to see how it works, especially with the satellite-phone-to-blog idea. It works like a champ. So we’re on for live blogging. The only thing I can complain about this is the connection is taking too long, like 5 mins. And I hate to type in the message using the phone keyboard. I guess I’m not a teenager anymore to be able to do speed SMS. I also will have to “invent” a lot of shortcuts to limit number of characters (the length of each message is 160 characters including email address and white spaces). And looks like I have to write the message I need to send on paper first, shrink it as short as possible then key in the phone and send. Hope the following message is clear enough:
MET NP TRIBE HU LIV@ICE DANCE 4 US, WAS AMZG :)
It reads “We met a North Pole tribe who live on the ice. They danced for us. It was amazing. :)”
(The NP tribe was a joke from my team at work)
MET NP TRIBE HU LIV@ICE DANCE 4 US, WAS AMZG :)
It reads “We met a North Pole tribe who live on the ice. They danced for us. It was amazing. :)”
(The NP tribe was a joke from my team at work)
2 comments:
back when i was working for Lockheed Martin, i sort of worked on the iridium project.
The Iridium satellite network is great. I've made calls in the forrests of nicaragua, on boats in the pacific, and in the mexican desert, and it's been great. I actually just wrote about Iridium and Inmarset as it pertains to blogging from the field -
http://www.jeffzilla.com/2008/04/how-to-blog-from-anywhere/
thoughts?
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