Yet Another Satellite Texting Device – “Text Anywhere”

[Rex Sanders]

ROM Communications in Canada makes and sells the "Text Anywhere" device:

Connect via WiFi and web browser with your smart device, laptop, PC, Chromebook, whatever.
You send and receive texts using a web server built into the Text Anywhere device.

It sends and receives 160 character text messages through Iridium satellites. Period. No tracking, no SOS, no GPS.

More info at http://www.textanywhere.ca

I found this through a Wired article, which compares the Text Anywhere to the DeLorme inReach SE:
http://www.wired.com/2014/04/sat-comms/
However, the Wired cost analysis is very incomplete.

— Rex

[Delmar O’Donnell]

Interesting!
$35 activation fee, and $30 monthly subscription.
Course, the device is $400.

[Nick Gatel]

I hate texting

[Jeremy and Angela]

Hey Nick, it's "Zaurus", kthxbye!

(I actually wrote a few papers on one of those, then used the IR port to print it on a nearby laser printer. Very fancy for the time!)

[Jerry Adams]

Does that square object have a touch screen on it? So there's a little keyboard that you can push characters on to send, and read messages that you receive?

[Greg Mihalik]

You need another device –

Text Anywhere is an Iridium(c) satellite texting device that you can use with your compatible Wi-Fi enabled smart phone, tablet or PC to send messages from anywhere on earth."

Connects by WIFI to:

Itouch
Iphone
Ipad
MacBooks
Windows Laptop IE,
Firefox & Chrome
Android
Blackberry"

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