Res-Q
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Post by Res-Q on Sept 18, 2014 20:07:51 GMT 10
Can any of our comms people give me their opinion on this product please www.gotenna.com/What is goTenna? Short story: goTenna is a small device that allows you to use your smartphone to send and receive messages and share your GPS location with others even when you don’t have service. Longer story: goTenna is a small, rugged device designed to make “No Service” no problem. Just pair your smartphone with a goTenna and communicate off-grid with those near you who also have goTenna, anywhere on the planet, regardless of access to cell reception or wi-fi. goTenna allows you to send and receive texts and share GPS locations on beautiful offline maps, without ever relying on central connectivity. Depend on it in all kinds of situations: when hiking in remote areas, traveling, attending music or sporting events or during an emergency. Plus, because goTenna is end-to-end encrypted, it’s not just for when you’re off-grid, but when you want to be.
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SM+?
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Post by SM+? on Sept 18, 2014 20:42:54 GMT 10
1st time I've heard of it, I'm much of a tech person.
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Post by thereth on Sept 19, 2014 14:14:47 GMT 10
Just having a look at their web page and i must admit, I am very curious to see where this goes, I like the idea of an encrypted method of communicating and a smartphone wouldnt draw undue attention. The encryption would probably be no good against a government level monitoring situation, but against your standard joe bloggs monitoring his radio looking for easy targets it would allow more fluid and precise conversations without the risk of ruining OPSEC.
I for one think for a small group/community these could be a great replacement for handheld walkies. Another good point is that in a SHTf scenario if the mobile towers go down, there will be many more phones then there will be people to use them, so if you break or lose your phone you should be able to acquire another reasonably easily and reconnect to the same 'network'
Now if this thing was capable of transferring data I would be pre ordering a bunch right now :-P
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