Posted on 11/22/2022 8:09:57 AM PST by Red Badger
I used to go on very long, desert road motorcycle rides. This would have been nice to have in my back poscket.
This is good, so the people with no climbing experience who get stuck on a mountain in a snow storm because they didn’t check the weather can call for a $25,000 emergency crew paid for by taxpayers.
InReach works pretty much world wide and goes directly to a rescue center. If you break a leg hiking the Andes, overlanding on BLM land in Wyoming or abandon ship in the middle of the Pacific, InReach is the device for you. Before starting an off grid adventure, seriously consider a specialized insurance package from a 3rd party. Private, rescue specialized companies could be the primary responder and amazing, big time $$$ can be incurred.
The iPhone 14 SOS appears to be a good and lower capability option for the masses. I'm content with my iPhone 12 but am teetering on swapping out to the 14 or 14 plus. I live in the NC mountains and cell phone coverage is spotty. For that matter, cell phone coverage is marginal to unavailable in about 1/3 to 1/2 of the 48 state land area.
I agree on the differences.
But, I like the Inreach Explorer+ not only for the SOS capability, but also for the ability to engage in a texting or emailing exchange with anyone I choose from anywhere.
For $13/month, I get 10 messages of either type. After that, they are $0.50 each. I think that is a bargain.
Also, I am an Android user. So, I will wait until Samsung comes out with a competitive product — or — until Elon Musk sells his anticipated cellphone with StarLink connectivity.
FYI, I am closing out all business with firms that pulled advertising from Twitter because of Musk being a conservative.
You'd know better than me but I understand the InReach do some cool things with its bread crumb tracking of the track, land or sea. It can send out a communications message automatically to prearranged contacts that correlate to the bread crumb locations. That way, family or friends can know where you're at that moment in time.
Also, I think that you can set a small number of prearranged and brief messages via the website to designated contacts. Ex. I'm ok, Send help, etc. These prearranged messages are not counted as a text message I think? Cheers…
Thank You for Posting this. I’d forgotten about it and ran across this Thread while I was closing some of the 200+ Tabs that I had open.
Anyway I wanted to add that I have an iPhone XR and the service is available on it also.
TECHNOLOGY (((PING)))
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