YouNeverCall offers cash for first cell call from the moon
By Paul Miller 
posted Sep 23rd 2007 5:22PM
posted Sep 23rd 2007 5:22PM
We have bad enough luck with cellphone coverage in our own apartment to worry much about balls of dirt floating around in space, but YouNeverCall is tacking a slim $10k onto Google's existing $30 million in moon-related prize money for the first cellphone call made by a device or a person on the moon, so if you're headed there any time soon you might want to give it a shot. Sure, $10k probably pales in comparison to the expense of even adding a phone and related hardware to the payload -- not to mention those hefty interstellar roaming charges -- and it mainly seems like a bit of cheap PR for the YouNeverCall peeps, but we like the concept of a moon rover doing something more than just roaming and pesky science while it's chilling out way up there. Whoever or whatever is making the call will need to be able to answer some simple questions while on the phone, and the call must pass through a commercially avaialble cellphone -- though technical details are murky beyond that. Secondary prizes are also on offer for first SMS message and first usage for the Crazy Frog Ringtone.[Via MobileWhack]
And there needed to be a iPhone in the picture because....?
And there couldn't be an iPhone in the picture because....?
Ah, in that case you'd need a bluetoot headset :-P
(And off-course there shouldn't have been an I-phone in the picture...)
This is really a bad PR.... After what it will it be ? The first phone call from Mars ?
The iPhone on the picture has nothing to do with the announcement, but just probably the fact that the iPhone is a cool gadget make it go well with the pix.
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I don't care that the iPhone was in the pic, it's a phone, so it fits.
What I do care about is that it was poorly photoshopped in. Who made the top of the phone transparent!?
my thoughts exactly...
when placing phone calls internationally does it go over landlines to the towers or via satellites? If it goes via satellite you only have to have a dish to send it to the satellite you're provider uses?
I bet I just way overly simplified this...