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The idea that a handset is categorized as a satellite phone can be frustrating. It is expensive, difficult and less friendly. But still this kind of communications device is equipped with its own glory. One example was the closest done by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In the moment after this deadly hurricane was gone, the majority of cellular base station that is to the disaster area were all down. Therefore the people affected GSM and CDMA-based phones, so they do not use, it could be normal. In such a situation or condition as the one satellite phone can be the answer.But once again, the lack of simplicity in design and usability has a satellite phone is just too good to be true for the vast majority of mobile phone users out there. Perhaps, in this area of problem, two companies named Elektrobit and Terre Star bet it easy to offer the public a real device that has a capacity both as a satellite phone and GSM or CDMA-based PDA phone.

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