When you are on the road, the only lifeline to keep you touch with folks (and office) back home is your trusty cell phone, but what do you do if you are to travel to a remote location where there is no cell connection? Inmarsat now offers IsatPhone Satellite phone. “Robust, compact and competitively priced”, IsatPhone is ideal for business travelers and the likes who travel to areas where local networks are unreliable or non-existent. IsatPhone can be used within Asia, Africa and the Middle East, using Inmarsat’s latest generation Inmarsat-4 satellite over the Indian Ocean Region. The included battery runs for about 2 hours and 40 minutes of talk time (satellite or GSM) with about 42 hours of standby.

IsatPhone is currently the world’s cheapest satellite capable handset. By cheap we mean about $775.
Inmarsat via Ohgizmo