As soon as this company has an ipo I'm buying stock!

[John Connor]

Have you heard of gotenna?

http://www.gotenna.com

 

[IronWing]

Someone took the Garmin Rino and made it mo' better. Looks cool.

 

[TheELF]

Pair goTenna to your smartphone via Bluetooth, and use the app to connect with other goTennas up to several miles away.

Making this thing pretty much useless except for things like resorts where one device could be close to the net.

 

[John Connor]

Someone took the Garmin Rino and made it mo' better. Looks cool.

The cheapest those radios go for $350 forget about it. Plus this uses VHF which actually works a lot better than UHF which Family Radio uses.

 

[John Connor]

Making this thing pretty much useless except for things like resorts where one device could be close to the net.

You don't need Internet it sends signals from the smartphone through the antenna no cell service required.

 

[TheELF]

Yes but only to other gotenna devices,at least that is what the quote from their page says,so you will need to be close enough to at least one person with an gotenna who is close enough to the net to have a signal himself,unless you only want to communicate with that one person or persons who have gotennas.

 

[Markbnj]

It turns your smartphone into a VHF 2-way. Pretty cool, but definitely of limited use in a lot of the places they show people using it, i.e. cities, mountainous woods, deep canyons, lol. It could make a lot of sense for a group on a camping trip.

 

[Techie14]

Interesting idea! Should be really helpful if you are part of a group, hiking, sailing togetheron different boats and so on! Would be even better if you could connect to internet via satellite - why doesn't it have that functionality?

 

[ImpulsE69]

Seems way overpriced for what it does.

Also, first commercial I've ever seen where they are like "hey I'm smoking weed".

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Interesting idea! Should be really helpful if you are part of a group, hiking, sailing togetheron different boats and so on! Would be even better if you could connect to internet via satellite - why doesn't it have that functionality?

Sat Phones are entirely different than this dongle antenna and quite a bit more expensive - two very different technologies at work.

Air time is super spendy at about $500 for 200 minutes for Sat Phones.

 

[Shlong]

Probably most useful for overseas traveling and the group split apart while shopping.

 

[Phokus]

Kinda cool, but limited use.

 

[11thHour]

They've found a way to daisy chain stupidity.

 

[John Connor]

Sat Phones are entirely different than this dongle antenna and quite a bit more expensive - two very different technologies at work.

Air time is super spendy at about $500 for 200 minutes for Sat Phones.

You can get Sat card cheaper than that on ebay.