Re: [NTLK] Cellular modem and phone-to-modem questions

From: Scott Hoffman <hoffo_at_mac.com>
Date: Thu Jun 04 2009 - 01:09:40 EDT

Linking a satellite phone with a Newton would be really cool - truly
around-the-world capability! I could imagine something like that did
exist at one time... there were adventurers in the mid-90s who
thought of that undoubtedly. Was anything actually developed?

On Jun 3, 2009, at 5:38 AM, SteveC wrote:

> Another nice angle would be sattellite phone connectivity (I think
> already dicussed on this e'list over the last year). I think the
> technology moves slower than cellular and the digital speed would
> defnitely be slower than cellular (with high latency at that) so it
> might be more in the Newt's capability range.
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> _sc
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