New TrueNorth Express(TM) Module Introduces Smarphone E-Mail For Existing Airborne Phones
Compact plug-in unit lets aircraft operators send and receive e-mail worldwide — and more affordably — from their existing airborne phone systems
Ottawa, Canada – September 3, 2010 —TrueNorth Avionics, Inc., has introduced TrueNorth Express, a compact, plug-in hardware module that lets owners of virtually any brand of airborne telephone use their smartphones to send and receive e-mails worldwide over the Iridium® satcom network, for a fraction of the cost of other systems. Compatible with such systems as the single-channel Aircell ST3100 and multichannel Aircell Axxess systems, as well as phones from ICG and EMS Aviation, the TrueNorth Express unit offers walk-on-and-use-it support for all Wi-Fi enabled smartphones, including BlackBerry®, iPhone®, Android® and other popular brands and operating systems. The introductory price is $10,995, with usage costs much lower than those of other providers. TrueNorth Express modules are available now through TrueNorth or its exclusive North American distributor, Dallas Avionics.
“Basically, TrueNorth Express provides a self-contained Wi-Fi ‘hot spot’ for e-mail over smartphones,” explained Mark van Berkel, TrueNorth’s president. “We showed the prototype to a number of business aviation users and they immediately saw that it enhanced the value of their existing phones by allowing them to stay in touch worldwide, at any altitude” he noted.
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