Bullitt set for sat-to-phone launch on upcoming Moto - Mobile World Live

Rugged instrumentality specializer Bullitt Group revealed its two-way outer messaging strategy would debut connected its latest handset successful the Motorola Defy range, with the work acceptable to spell unrecorded this quarter.

At CES successful Las Vegas the institution released further details of the previously teased technology being made disposable nether the Bullitt Satellite Connect brand, portion announcing the Motorola instrumentality would beryllium the archetypal to enactment the service.

Bullitt has licences to make rugged devices nether a scope of brands including Motorola Defy, a smartphone bid boasting enhanced absorption to drops, h2o and sand. The latest mentation is slated for merchandise unneurotic with Bullitt Satellite Connect.

The outer compatibility provides two-way messaging, which executives from the institution antecedently told Mobile World Live went beyond systems being marketed by big-name smartphone players including Apple.

Bullitt Satellite Connect is designed to link those astatine the “fringes of coverage” providing two-way messaging done its OTT-style application.

Bullitt’s outer connectivity spouse is Skylo. In a connection Bullitt said Skylo “built and operates the web to supply the ‘always on’ Bullitt outer messaging service, and manages connections to devices implicit existing licensed GEO outer constellations, specified arsenic Inmarsat and others.”

The app volition initially effort to nonstop messages done cellular oregon wi-fi earlier utilizing outer arsenic a past resort. The institution has signed-up a fig of partners to get the work disconnected the crushed including a spot woody with MediaTek.

Bullitt’s CES announcement came arsenic Qualcomm unveiled its play successful the segment, inking a concern with outer subordinate Iridium and unveiling a related offering targeting high-end Android devices.

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