TerreStar Genus: smartphone with support for satellite and cellular networks
American mobile operator AT & T began selling satellite telephone TerreStar Genus. Most models support satellite communications are huge, ugly and have a long antenna, but novelty it looks like an ordinary device. As a software platform it uses the OS Windows Mobile 6.5.3. Announcement of the device, we recall, took place a year ago. It’s developer is a provider of satellite TerreStar.
Communicator is equipped with 2.6-inch touchscreen display, QWERTY-keyboard, module Bluetooth, Wi-Fi controller and receiver satellite navigation system GPS. Buy novelty may be only American corporate and government users. Cost model – $ 799. This monthly subscription fee for the use of cellular (GSM and UMTS/HSPA) and satellite networks is $ 25. Minute of conversation is estimated at 65 cents, per message – 40 cents, a megabyte of traffic – $ 5.
The device can be used in the United States, Canada, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.