A FaceTime Call From the Sea Via Satellite [Facetime]

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On the appropriate: the spot on the globe most isolated from land, separated by over a thousand miles from the nearest landmass in every direction. On the left: an iPhone 4 FaceTime call from that individual location. Whoa.

On the wetter side of the line is Philippe Kahn, who is sailing a boat from Santa Cruz, California to Honolulu Hawaii for the 2010 Pacific Cup. Because of a satellite connection common to such vessels, he has a Wi-Fi network on board and may FaceTime with other members of his team back in California. The connection isn\’t flawless, but quite a lot of landlocked FaceTime calls I\’ve made haven\’t been either.

They finish the call by trading superlatives for the experience: \” amazing,\” \” incredible,\” and \” unbelievable,\” but within the blog post on the Pegasus site, they finally drop the m-bomb: \” When it came up, it was like magic!\” And for the first time, I believe, with this little pocketable device bringing these friends and co-workers face-to-face from what\’s literally one of the most remote location in the world, using that word to describe it doesn\’t seem so ridiculous. [Pegasus]

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