Send text messages, voice recordings, images, and GPS locations on your phone without cellular coverage, satellite, or Internet access.

How is the different than Beartooth or GoTenna? Seem to have less capabilities that Beartooth which has already launched.

I was excited for a moment until I saw it has a lipo battery which will be rendered useless the first time you forget to discharge it to the proper storage voltage. Lipo is a terrible choice for this type of technology.

I love the idea of a very local network where everyone with one extends and doesn't require cell. It makes me want to pin one to my four daughters and their friends, ditch Snap.

Great idea - could see this being incredibly useful for hikers / backpackers in remote areas. Their campaign says they will eventually enable tethering via a firmware upgrade (allowing the device to be used as a modem). At that time, the only thing holding this back will be lack of saturation of devices.

A CB network for 2017. Really useful for missionaries in the middle of no where. Thank you. Also how can this be used to track people not wanting to be found?...

If the only point of this is to be able to communicate with other users who have the same device and are in a 5Km range... I don't really see any point to it, unless you are doing some kind of organised outdoors activity with a big group of people.

What about if there is no one else using Sonnet around me ? It doesn't work ? And can I use my own apps to communicate or do I have to use the Sonnet app ?

Neat. But once Internet is available everywhere, won't this product become obsolete?

Pretty neat. Would be sweet if the mesh could be more than 5 * 16 == 80 km. (Also, would be even better if the protocol behind it was an open standard so we don't end up with 14 different networks out there.)

Looks like a goTenna alternative. Can I expect a better coverage with Sonnet?