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Product gives Smartphones satellite GPS link for world-wide emergencies

Smartphone and SPOT Connect -- a marriage that will give adventurers access to satellite security world-wide. (Courtesy photo)
Smartphone and SPOT Connect -- a marriage that will give adventurers access to satellite security world-wide. (Courtesy photo)

ADVENTURING -- The SPOT messenger that gives adventure travelers the security of being able to send distress messages that pinpoint their locations anywhere in the world now can be activated through smartphones.

Get the scoop on a product that's just now being shipped to dealers in Stephen Regenold's Gear Junkie report.

Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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