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GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
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#52Is it me or is their a guy in the video getting baked? Not only that it is around the security part where he is getting in contact with his mate "Jason Greengrocer" about getting more. That part makes me happy!
Daniela, goTenna co-founder here, "Jason Greengrocer" is actually a real person in my phone I contact about once a month ;)
Are you suggesting Jason lives in your phone?
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#53No voice? That lost all of my interest. So now I need to tap out a message on my expensive, somewhat fragile smartphone with dirty fingers while losing all sight of the road for a minute. Instead of a sturdy walkie-talkie where I can hear the voices of my friends, talk efficiently in real sentences and I can look where I'm going all the time.
I get it's not for everyone, but what we learned as we developed this is that more people wanted asynchronous data comms as opposed to real-time voice. And when I say "more," I mean like, 75% of testers preferred the former.
From a networking perspective, as well, it makes our ad hoc reconfigurable network more scalable if we're focused on short-burst transmissions that are, technically speaking, delay-tolerant. This means that even if you're at a huge event with tons of people using goTenna, even if a gajillion of them press "send" at the exact same femtosecond, all the messages can get through in a matter of seconds if not milliseconds.
Re: GoTenna – Send and receive messages even when you don’t have service
#54No voice? That lost all of my interest. So now I need to tap out a message on my expensive, somewhat fragile smartphone with dirty fingers while losing all sight of the road for a minute. Instead of a sturdy walkie-talkie where I can hear the voices of my friends, talk efficiently in real sentences and I can look where I'm going all the time.
I get it's not for everyone, but what we learned as we developed this is that more people wanted asynchronous data comms as opposed to real-time voice. And when I say "more," I mean like, 75% of testers preferred the former. From a networking perspective, as well, it makes our ad hoc reconfigurable network more scalable if we're focused on short-burst transmissions that are, technically speaking, delay-tolerant. This…
That is a good point. But then I'm even less sure where I would use this. Definitely not when out hiking in the woods.
I still believe I'm with the 25% that didn't prefer asynchronous messaging.
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#55Looks interesting.
What radio service and frequencies does it use?
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#56"Early supporters get 50% off for a limited time."
I always wonder about this kind of pricing structure. It seems like selling your product for half of what you plan to eventually charge for it gives you pretty useless data on what the proper price should be. You may sell a ton at $100, but people perceive that as expensive, and then you might sell zero at $200.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
For now the chances of finding a third GoTenna user is quite low. In the future though this could be an alternative private Internet. A BitTorrent client could be a hit.
I think you are over estimating the bandwidth involved. They don't state much about the wireless protocol, but I am betting you don't want to send much more than a text message to get that range.
> via long-range radio waves
Which means that, no, they probably can't do seriously large amounts of data, but a picture (and definitely texting) can be sent through radio waves without much data retention issues.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they are quite deliberately pointing out that dealers can communicate with their users in private, outside of law enforcement spying on them [Use case A1].
I like the fact that can be publicly advertised as a unique selling point.
Also, if they're not encrypting the radio transmission, easily intercept-able.
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#59Looks interesting. What radio service and frequencies does it use?
Ah.
We are now at a device that is Bluetooth LE-enabled that works on the 151-154 MHz range from http://www.cnet.com/news/gotenna-creates-cell-network-out-of...
So this is essentially a mesh network or at least all independent nodes?
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I like the fact that can be publicly advertised as a unique selling point.
Also, if they're not encrypting the radio transmission, easily intercept-able.
All transmissions are end-to-end encrypted, unless you use the "shout" or "emergency" features which are, by definition, messages to everyone within range of you.