I was considering
buying an
iridium phone (latest) ($1095.00) with one year warranty also the optimizer box ($150.00) also $50.00 month (10 minutes) for a year (rollover ok) which would communicate with my
ipad for
weather etc.
Iridium uses 66 satalites. HOWEVER, a well established company called Jackson
Marine Electronic company said that if you are only cruising in the
Carribean then their Isatphone Pro ($575.00 =optimizer also $150.00) and with prepaid card of $275.00 for 250 minuters gives great
reception throughout
Caribbean - they use three satalites and they are "fixed" the closer to the equator the better apparently - Anyway apparently unlike global star the isatphone Pro has great
reception and equal to Iridium extreme in the
Caribbean. time to download
weather is 1 minute. Also it will receive text like the iridium for free and outgoing text is 1/2 minute vs 1 for the Iridium
Any feedback?