Their first product was long, long, long delayed. This seems like a better product but as a company they seem to be pretty clueless. I backed the original product but they've not seen fit to include us in any marketing nor offer any incentive to upgrade.<p>The original product makes more sense since it's more likely that people who are hiking or whatever circumstances have them off of a cellular network will bring their devices. There's never going to be enough critical mass for someone to depend on this as something active in their area.
@gotenna can you speak a little to why you're the first ones to do the kind of mesh network described in your campaign and in the title of this HN post? plenty of people have been working on MANET mesh stuff for 30+ years, what design decisions or other decisions make your mesh scalable/possible and not merely condemned to the academic or laboratory like so many other mesh projects?
Thanks for mentioning the SDK — anyone can build atop goTenna now. Devs: build whatever you want over a really unique open data layer (totally off-grid, long-range). M2M, gaming, messaging — <a href="http://www.gotenna.com/pages/sdk" rel="nofollow">http://www.gotenna.com/pages/sdk</a>
Anyone know if these will work along with the older GoTenna devices? I'm curious if the only difference is that the new devices can resend messages on enabling a mesh network.