Iridium Extreme 9575 Satellite Handset + Hands Free Car Kit (Excluding Antenna & Antenna Cable)

The toughest and smartest Iridium phone yet. Satellite voice, data and GPS enabled.

• Toughest ever Iridium phone
• Dedicated SOS
• Built in GPS
• Tracking Capable
• IP65 - Jet water & dust resistant

The Iridium Extreme® handset does it all, enabling you to make more emergency connections that really matter, under the harshest conditions from the furtherest reaches of Australia. Iridium Extreme provides an in-hand solution for voice, SMS, SOS and tracking with GPS accuracy, enabling you to make the connections that matter, under tough conditions, from all over Australia and the world. It meets stringent standards for durability including MIL-STD 810F and IP-65 and has the first dedicated, emergency SOS button, enabling two way communications during emergency situations.

All handsets are supplied complete - as provided by the manufacturer - including all standard accessories.

Iridium Extreme 9575 Features

• In built GPS - Send your location by SMS
• Integrated GPS enabled SOS button
• Compact Design - Iridium's smallest yet
• Online Tracking option with TracerTrak™
• Intuitive user interface
• Integrated speakerphone
• SMS messaging capable

Specifications

• IP65 - Water & Dust Resistant
• Weight: 247 grams
• Size: 140 x 60 x 27 mm
• Durable to MIL-STD 810F
• Standby up to 30hrs
• Talk time up to 4 hrs

What's in the box?

• Iridium Extreme handset
• AC travel charger, car charger
• CD-ROM with software
• International plug kit
• Auxiliary antenna adapter
• Leather case
• Magnetic Vehicle Mount Antenna
• USB data cable
• User guides

 + Iridium Extreme Car Kit

Designed for in-vehicle use across harsh terrains, the IR-HF-9575 Carkit is the ideal partner for the Iridium Extreme Phone delivering class leading reliability and voice quality. When linked with the TracerTrak tracking application the phone and carkit can be used to monitor the location and movements of the equipped vehicle to provide unparalleled visibility of remote workers and associated communications compliance.

Iridium Extreme 9575 Car Kit Features 

• Designed for harsh environments - just like your Iridium Extreme
• Dedicated SOS buttons built into cradle
• Full duplex hands free operation
• Two mode operation: loudspeaker or private (via optional privacy handset)
• Hands free operation is muted when optional privacy handset is activated
• Mutes car stereo during calls
• Echo cancellation and background noise filtering for enhanced voice reproduction
• Loud external speaker
• Charges phone battery
• External microphone, mounted with sun visor clip
• Data transfer via USB
• NOT INCLUDED: Antenna and Cable

Specifications

• Input voltage range: 11V DC to 32V DC
• Operating temp: -30c to +60c

Please note that subscription is NOT included in the price. Contact sales@adventuresafety.com.au to subscribe.

Read What Other's Say (Toms Guide, 2012) 

"Iridium? Huh? 

If you are not at least in your mid-30s, there is a good chance that you have never heard about Iridium. When I got the review phone, a friend of mine asked, “Iridium? They are still around?” Yes, they are. Let’s briefly look at their history.

Bary Bertiger, an engineer at Motorola, developed the first concept of a satellite phone service in the 1980s. He envisioned 77 low-earth-orbiting (LEO) satellites. The name “Iridium,” by the way, dates back to this concept, as the number of satellites was the same as the number of electrons in the element Iridium. In 1990, the design was trimmed to 66 satellites, and Motorola approved the buildup of the satellite network for a planned cost of $3.37 billion. By 1998, Motorola had spent more than $5 billion and had deployed 66 satellites and six spares that are circling the earth at an altitude of 485 miles and a speed of 16,382 mph. The network provides 100 percent global coverage.  

Unfortunately, Iridium never had a chance of succeeding with the initial product plan. The company needed about 1 million paying customers – customers who were willing to spend about $10 per minute for a call – but only reached approximately 15,000 customers within two years. Consider the fact that Boeing charged Motorola $540 million per year just to maintain the satellites. It is clear why the service failed and basically shut down when the network went into Chapter 11 in August 1999. The company had to close its doors when Motorola, which financed the network on the back of huge loan agreements, defaulted on a $1.5 billion loan.

In December 2000, the network was acquired for pennies on the dollar by investor Dan Colussy. He got the $5 billion network for just $25 million, renegotiated the Boeing contract, created the new “Iridium Satellite LLC” and enabled a new start. He removed the mainstream focus and instead targeted the service at industrial, government, military and academic applications. 

Usage model: A phone, anywhere anytime.

The original story of the invention of Iridium says that Karen Bertiger, who was honeymooning with husband Bary in Turtle Cay in the Bahamas, complained that she did not have access to a phone from the beach. 

Iridium 9575 Extreme: First Impression and Specs 

The 9575 is not what kids would imagine a phone to look like today. Its appearance and weight is closer to the mid-90s versions of Nokia or Motorola phones. This particular version is dust- and spill-proof (as it is meant to be used outside with direct view to satellites) and covered in a sturdy rubber padding that prevents damage to the phone when it is dropped.  

It has a monochrome display (no, it’s not a touch screen) that can show basic graphics, but will, 99 percent of the time, be used for text. The display can show up to 200 characters at once. The phone can text via SMS and supports short emails, has a phone book (up to 100 entries), voicemail, and a choice of eight ring and alert tones. Standby time is about 30 hours; talk time is up to 3.5 hours. These are very conservative numbers. I have seen standby times of up to 45 hours during my review of the phone. The entire phone is 140 x 60 x 27 mm in size, which is about as wide as an iPhone, but the 9575 is significantly longer than and three times as deep as Apple’s phone. It’s not the phone that hides itself in your suit pocket. The phone is even larger when you actually call, as it needs a massive satellite antenna that is pulled out of the shell.   

Iridium was pretty tight-lipped about what is inside the phone, and I was not ready to break their phone to find out more. What I was told is that the device integrates Iridium’s Core 9523 satellite transceiver module, the smallest board of its kind available today. The company says it’s 90 percent more compact than its predecessor, the 9522B, and consumes about 2.3 watts, on average, during a call. The maximum power consumption is 3.1 watts. By the way, power-up of the phone is about 28 seconds. Satellites were typically acquired within 10 to 20 seconds during my test. 

If I have not lost you by now, you are lucky, because the cool part starts right here. Let’s leave the global coverage aside for a moment. The phone comes with an SOS button that looks like a rocket launcher right out of a James Bond movie. It can be configured with a predetermined contact, which will receive your GPS location every 5 minutes in an emergency, provided you have the phone with you and it is charged. Also included is a cradle with a USB port that connects the phone to a laptop, turning the 9575 into a data modem. Don’t expect broadband speeds, but Iridium says that maximum speeds are about 13 kbps with compression software and 2.4 kbps raw throughput. It’s not the service to download music or browse the web, but it is enough for text messages and checking your email. "