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Yeah, I'm not sure if the article starting that way was meant to suggest this device would have saved Colvin or if it was just meant as a vague illustration. Be
by sievebrain 10y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure if the article starting that way was meant to suggest this device would have saved Colvin or if it was just meant as a vague illustration. Because as it points out, journalists do actually use their phones for calling people and receiving calls quite a lot, so the utility of a phone that is forced offline - for a journalist - would seem to be very low. Why have it powered at all, in that case? Couldn't you just buy a tablet that doesn't have any long-range radios to begin with? WiFi signals don't travel far.
- walrus01 10y agoA typical handheld satellite phone doesn't stay powered up and on net much, if it's in a backpack or being carried around... You need to be standing with a clear sky view to use one. But if you're a journalist in a war zone sleeping in the same location 3 or 4 days in a row and making one 5-minute phone call a day, or sending iridium SMS a few times daily from the same lat/long, that is enoigh to DF you.