alt Hacker NewsI’m looking forward to cell phones un-shackling themselves from telecom oligopolies through a mix of repurposed satellite uplink and where available: some FM spectrum downlink utilization.
Just stream me the weather, traffic, text msgs & some news stories that a TTS can read out to me.
Won’t work well for streaming a video but for most of us generally on wifi except out-of-doors, I can live with it.
Just stream me the weather, traffic, text msgs & some news stories that a TTS can read out to me.
SiriusXM is half way there. It supplies weather and traffic as a data service.
I knew about traffic from way back when the service was new, and found out Sirius Marine Weather a few years ago, but recently rented a car that also had Sirius-delivered weather and traffic alerts.
It was very useful as I was deeply off the grid (no radio stations at all during the day and AM skywave only at night), and the car alerted me to nearby lightning and thunderstorms that I couldn't see because of the terrain.