Category: Communications

BGAN, beginning on boats? 0

BGAN, beginning on boats?

Well, Inmarsat’s 2004 projections on the size and timing of marine BGAN may have been a bit optimistic, but the fourth generation birds are in place and the service appears to getting more and more mobile, like this ruggedized...

Faria WatchDog 750, multi mode comms 1

Faria WatchDog 750, multi mode comms

I just finished a June PMY column about how the gauge manufacturer Faria is busting out into marine electronics. I visited their Connecticut factory in January and then saw more of their Maestro do-it-all touch screen...

GrandCentral, maybe cruiser cool 1

GrandCentral, maybe cruiser cool

Yesterday David Pogue of the New York Times wrote a pretty glowing review of a new Web-centered phone and voice mail management service called GrandCentral. The central idea is one single phone number for life,...

Ray218, first impressions 5

Ray218, first impressions

I really didn’t get to fool with the new Ray218 much during Raymarine’s Miami sea trials—what with the AIS250, C-Series Sirius, and LifeTag demos—but it sure sounded good. The speaker is big and the product...