Five Members of Parliament, one Guardian political correspondent Tania Branigan, two sat phones, and a Pocket PC running Phojo recently completed a 7 day expedition to the Arctic Circle. Dan Chung of the Guardian reports that the Pocket PC faired surprisingly well in it’s ruggedised OtterBox case, although he might have been less surprised had he known in advance that Pocket Phojo has also been used to transmit from Mount Everest and Mount McKinley 
The two sat phones used were the Thuraya, via a CompactFlash Serial Card rather than a serial adapter cable for reliability, and the always popular Regional BGAN, which was able to lock on to a satellite closer to the Pole than the Thuraya.
Archive for February, 2007
Andy Mettler of Swiss Image has been very busy putting Phojo to work at his agency, with great results!
“The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos brings about 80 Presidents, Prime Ministers, Hollywood stars and 4000 business, cultural and religious leaders to Davos. The photographer has transmitted every day between 80 and 120 pictures via Pocket Phojo. The quality thanks to the new receiving servers workflow was perfect - photographer and editors were happy. The system worked very stable.”
“There will be about 40 flat screen around the convention center showing and quoting the speakers during the session. When the session is over - the photos must be already in the system and on the website (www.weforum.org). So the photographer has about 5-8 minutes time to take the picture and to transmitt it to the online picture editor. Normally we are using the in-house WLAN but when high ranking US politicians speak all WLAN and 3G systems are disturbed by their security devices (then we use a LAN cable in the plenary hall). “
You can see more of the photos from the event here.
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