🔙 Throwback Thursday for 2025-01-30
One headline for a Thursday Throwback caught my eye.
Vodafone makes “the world's first” satellite video call using a standard smartphone via SpaceMobile satellites; the service is set to launch in Europe in 2025
By Dominic Preston / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
🤳🏻 🛰️ Amazing.
15 years ago, Vodafone enabled the first “World” phone by combining both CDMA and GSM networks in a single handheld consumer device.
20 years ago, Vodafone enabled precursors to the first mobile access routers with wifi for teams by collaborating with Linksys on their iconic ubiquitous Linksys WRT54 design that had just turned 2 years old.
