I've been impressed with the Smit and excited someone's selling them, rebranded or no. I'll probably give this guy a shot when my birthday rolls around and report back.

That'd be awesome.

Its very entertaining that 'enso' hasn't thought to visit your profile to answer his questions about who you are.

Agreed, my identity is not exactly a secret. I haven't heard from his lawyers yet though, maybe it's still in the mail somewhere.

It's sad though, I think he may have something there but he's going about it completely wrong.

He wouldn't even have to rebrand the thing, just sell it as it is, save a bunch of $. After all it's not like smit is going to give him an exclusive deal.

And I'm still not sure what the status is on importing that thing with a 3G dongle in to Europe or the US without the required 'seal of approval'. I'm pretty sure that the local variety FCC wants to know that your device has passed inspection, and that operating a device that has not passed inspection is tricky at best and illegal in most places.

FCC approval is actually quite easy and affordable (less than 10k), as long as your equipment passes first time.

The best way out is to buy a dongle or module from a 3rd party who has already got approval for it. If the RF module has approval then you don't have an issue. You still need a different kind of approval for your electronic device, but they are just reselling a 3rd party device so no issue there either.

I haven't made a mobile phone - instead I have worked on other RF devices. Perhaps there are issues I am not aware of (a public mobile network probably has a lot of checks and balances that are much more expensive)

Just a ping: ordered. We shall see.