motorola t 800 talk about radios

let me understand this

walkie talkie radios that connect to your cellphone via BT
so you can use your cellphone like a walkie talkie

so you have to carry both around in order to talk to each other when there is no cell service

makes no sense to me

just caryy the radios and leave the phones in the RV

Interesting concept but with the limited power of a cell phone blue tooth looks like they may be good for about the area of a football field.

The wild claims of radio ranges on the youtube seems to be normal for these types of radios.

Think line of site, and I mean not a lot of things in between.

I too wondered why it was an "improvement" but cursory reading about it indicates that you can then pinpoint the other units location, and do smart phone type stuff without cell reception.
bumpy

Lets see if I got this right.

You need a phone and a radio at both ends.
No cell service but you want to send a picture to your buddy.
The radios hook up and you can move stuff back and forth over the phone.

I suppose it does have it's uses.

Get your ham ticket and you can get a 25 dollar radio on Amazon that will allow you to talk for 30 miles under the right conditions.

twodownzero wrote:
Get your ham ticket and you can get a 25 dollar radio on Amazon that will allow you to talk for 30 miles under the right conditions.

But can you send images, text, maps etc. back and forth.
That's what this radio seems to be able to do, as long as you also have a phone.

Fizz wrote:

twodownzero wrote:
Get your ham ticket and you can get a 25 dollar radio on Amazon that will allow you to talk for 30 miles under the right conditions.

But can you send images, text, maps etc. back and forth.
That's what this radio seems to be able to do, as long as you also have a phone.

Not with the 25 dollar radio, but the answer to your question is yes. Who do you think envisioned and developed your smart phone, wifi, TV, text messaging, etc.? That person was probably a ham radio operator; those sorts of things were first done without a fancy network in a much more crude fashion before someone formalized and monetized it.

Fizz wrote:
Lets see if I got this right.

You need a phone and a radio at both ends.
No cell service but you want to send a picture to your buddy.
The radios hook up and you can move stuff back and forth over the phone.

I suppose it does have it's uses.

the blurb also mentioned pinpointing the location of your "buddy".
evidently has more uses than a "ham" radio.
thanks,
bumpy

From what I can tell, the locator feature works when the radios are connected to the phone app and the phones are receiving a tower signal. If the phones are off-grid, the app uses off-line maps. Radios in this price range typically don't have GPS receivers and phones don't either...phones triangulate your location from nearby towers. Off-grid messaging between to phones uses the app to send messages over the radio's frequency.

There are a handful of hand held ham radios in the $150 price range that do have built in GPS receivers and support texting...but you have to be willing to obtain the license.

Bumpyroad wrote:

the blurb also mentioned pinpointing the location of your "buddy".
evidently has more uses than a "ham" radio.
thanks,
bumpy

Do a search on APRS. APRS It's not too complicated to understand.
Hams have been using just such location radios for over 25 years.
APRS is also a lot more useful and much farther range than just using a cell phone that doesn't have a connection and a Motorola low power radio that may only get 1-2 miles in ideal conditions.