Anyone got a Motorola phone for satellite texting?

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by JSH

My InReach plan is $15 a month for 50 texts and 10 picture texts or voice messages. It is $30 a month for 150 texts or $50 for unlimited.

Seems crazy to me that text would be limited at all. A single photo is more data than every text you could ever send (a picture really is worth a thousand words). They're following the scheme used by cell phone companies, who eventually had to offer unlimited texting because of competition.

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

I don't know how texting is priced in my country nowadays, since Whatsapp became used more often than SMS here.

[Isaac Zachary]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

I don't know how texting is priced in my country nowadays, since Whatsapp became used more often than SMS here.

Some time ago in the USA phone plans started being offered as unlimited minutes and texts. There are very few phone plans that are limited or charged by the minute or by the text. The major cellphone providers do not offer any that are not unlimited minutes or texts.

I know in Central and South America there are many who still pay for each minute and each text message. This makes WhatsApp so attractive since all you need is internet and you get unlimited talk and text. I've seen plans in Mexico that give you unlimited internet for WhatsApp (restricted data for everything else), but charge per minuted of talk and for each text message.

This is why WhatsApp isn't popular for most Americans.

[Xist]

I didn't realize that Verizon only offered unlimited plans until I tried finding a limited one.
Mom, my wife, and I don't text or call that much.
We mostly talk with each other, in-person.

However, I am in a Whatsapp group for school.

[freebeard]

I was pleased to learn that Steve Wozniak hasn't lost the hacker spirit:

Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever
Plus: Beware of a hotspot called 'spanky'

During his keynote, he talked about creating a device to interfere with televisions surreptitiously and pranking the unwary. "Everything you do in life should have an element of fun," he said, later explaining how he'd recently started to use a Raspberry Pi Zero to make mischief with aircraft passengers hunting for Wi-Fi.

"I'll tune in the Raspberry Pi to the airplane's network … and then I'll have a little five-dollar Raspberry Pi Zero, I'll have it put on a second Wi-Fi of its own and name the network 'spanky' with no password. Everyone on the plane can log in… eleven people connected. So I started using it as a honeypot.

[Piotrsko]

I dunno..... on real United or Delta flights the first thing you get after connecting is an appropriate commercial. If the commercial isn't there.......... oh wait, we are talking about the general public.

[bandit86]

Tempting. I have a Delorme InReach sat unit, can send texts and emails and has a nice SOS feature that brings the cavalry

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary

I know in Central and South America there are many who still pay for each minute and each text message. This makes WhatsApp so attractive since all you need is internet and you get unlimited talk and text. I've seen plans in Mexico that give you unlimited internet for WhatsApp (restricted data for everything else), but charge per minuted of talk and for each text message.

Problem is, at least in Brazil, we no longer have a choice for unlimited mobile internet. Otherwise I would never consider getting cable-broadband internet at home.