What's Wrong With This Picture......

[streaker69]

Re: What's Wrong With This Picture......

We had secure Motorola Star Tac phones when I was in the guard. Basically made them mobile STU-III's. I still don't see why this thing would cost $3000 other than the fact that the government buys them.

Here's a good reason why.

Finally, the device meets MIL-STD-810F standards for resistance to water intrusion, dust, shock, vibration, altitude, and other parameters. It can be operated at up to 140 deg. F, and stored at up to 167 deg. F, General Dynamics says.

I used to do much of that test work for a defense contractor. One unit we tested had to operate continuously for 12 straight hours while it was in an oven @140F for 1 hour and then it dropped to -40F within the span of 30 minutes and stayed there for 1 hour, rinse repeat. You'd see the condensation building up on the boards, they'd actually be dripping during the transition in temps, but they kept on working because of the conformal coating. Any unit that failed during the tests were pulled immediately and troubleshot to the failed component, not the PCB.

MilSpec electronics must meet very exacting criteria and are tested under extreme conditions. That's what's never mentioned when someone brings up the costs of Military gear. After all, it's for the Military, you don't want to be sending defective gear to our boys do ya?

[barry99705]

Re: What's Wrong With This Picture......

We had secure Motorola Star Tac phones when I was in the guard. Basically made them mobile STU-III's. I still don't see why this thing would cost $3000 other than the fact that the government buys them.

[Greyhatter]

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Windows phone meets NSA top secret standards

I seem to remember 900 MHZ digital spread spectrum met NSA standards. Perhaps "NSA standards" really means the NSA has a hack for it rather than the NSA can't hack it? That's what's wrong with this picture.

[xor]

Windows phone meets NSA top secret standards:

http://www.windowsfordevices.com/new...RWFD040708EML2

Secure, Wireless and Windows mentioned in the same article. Anyway looks cool, price is top secret apparently too.

xor

Opps found the price for a mere $3350.00 you can own of these.

Cool video of phone.

http://www.gdc4s.com/video/SMEPED_05SEP2007-web.wmv