[Noob1999]

Hope they carry extra batteries!

[CodeToad]

Is this a hardened version of the iPhone do you know?

[Cementjungle]

Once Obama read about how easy it wound up being to crack the San Bernardino killer’s iPhone, he ordered our most secret operatives to start using them.

[Swordmaker]

US Army Special Ops deploying iPhones in place of Samsung phones in the field after finding the Androids required too frequent reboots and often had delays and freezes in operations.

"The iPhone is “faster; smoother. Android freezes up” and has to be restarted too often, the source said. The problem with the Android is particularly noticeable when viewing live feed from an unmanned aerial system such as Instant Eye, the source said.

When trying to run a split screen showing the route and UAS feed, the Android smart phone will freeze up and fail to refresh properly and often have to be restarted, a process that wastes valuable minutes, the source said.

“It’s seamless on the iPhone,” according to the source. “The graphics are clear, unbelievable."

If special Ops adopts the iPhone can the rest of the Army be far behind? — PING!

Thanks to dayglored for the heads up, and pinging ThunderSleeps and Shadow Ace for their lists.

US Army Adopts Apple iPhone to Replace Samsung Android
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[mowowie]

hey it’s only money...

Will SOF get a replaceable battery version?

[MarchonDC09122009]

Who cares about situational awareness / drone Live feed split screen performance.
The real question is how well does the Apple phone handle Pokemon?
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Army To Use Pokemon Go To Teach New Soldiers Land Navigation
https://www.americangrit.com/2016/07/13/army-use-poke... Proxy Highlight

6 days ago ... The Army has indicated its intention to integrate Pokemon Go

[DUMBGRUNT]

They make waterproof Iphones now?

Recently saw a very small splash of water on a friends pants, kill her new Iphone!!! S mall spill, not much of a wet spot on her jeans!

Immediately removed from her pocket , removed battery; dead.

Teacup or less, it was stunning that it could happen.

[kingu]

Kudos to the military for saving us money by using off the shelf technology. I appreciate them doing that.

I have two old Android phones which I re-tasked to be part of puzzle geocaches. You approach the cache location, perform tasks that move a little metal square that is blocking the camera lens on the hidden phone, and it wakes up and sets up a mobile hot spot where cachers can download a PDF file once they answer some questions on the mini-Apache server I have installed on there.

The phone is recharged by a little solar panel mounted on the pole (a re-tasked solar light) which give just enough power to keep it full.

Once a week it boots up the phones cellular radio and sends a report as to the number of times it’s been accessed.

That’s with a six year old phone.

[Larry Lucido]

I wonder if Switzerland has a Swiss Army Phone?