It makes me smile how for ages I have been slagged off by certain individuals for using this technology, but the instant God (Steve Jobs in a tight black t-shirt) comes out with it, in the form of an oversized Iphone, everybody raves about it
Gosh, for some time I have been getting
airborne tafs, metars, radar images, and even emails (if I could be bothered) using a tablet computer (which could be any cheap windoze tablet computer; they have been about for years, with shiny screens) and a £300 Hughes 7100 Thuraya satellite phone from Ebay. 99 US cents per minute.