I 'ver just seen the Yellowbrick advertisement in the latest FF, so I looked at their website. It seems to have come of age. No longer a Big Yellow Brick, but a small, rugged device with minimal power consumption, and a sensible purchase price, monthly fee and usage structure. It would give me what I 'm looking for - the ability to keep the folks back home aware of my position, and to send and receive SMS-style messages, when out of range of 3G.
I 'm tempted.
Is anyone using one?
David.

Paul,
I looked at SPOT first. The pricing is good, but there 's a huge area of the Pacific that 's not covered. Wouldn 't be any good for going around Cape Horn, either!

I don 't think I 'd want to consider anything that needs its batteries to be replaced, though the electronics blog says there 's a power supply coming for the Inreach sometime.

Simon,
Many thanks for the comparison. But when I looked at the DeLorme site, the specs say that there is a GPS chipset built in. I 'd be surprised if there wasn 't, a device such as this wouldn 't be much use as an SOS panic button if some other bluetooth GPS had to be switched on as well.



David.