Are here any M+ users? Please share your experiences/thoughts!

If you get an compressed photo via satellite and you arrive in an area with cell/wifi, the pic will get to a normal level/get better quality. Some interesting stuff is here:

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Left: A photo of Ryan Jordan hiking in Wyoming’s Snowy Range, as originally transmitted by the Garmin inReach Messenger Plus via satellite using the Iridium Message Transport protocol (download this image here). Right: The same photo synced from the Amazon AWS Virtual Private Cloud environment after the Garmin inReach Messenger Plus returned to a high-bandwidth (WiFi / Cellular) connection (download this image here). Photo: Ryan Jordan.

skyeye said:

I am still not able to make some rational cleaning of the message storage on the device. I still have to go one by one, select, delete, really?,

It is a litte bit burried and can be found: setting>system>reset> scroll to>delete all messages (unless someone accidentally resets his M+). Not a good place for this functionality, but it`s there.

thanks!

had no time yet to search all

Pic:

we tested pic sending via sat-sat, meaning both sides have no internet. In this case the pic was considerably compressed .

I have the impression that even months after the release, very few people have bought an M+. The forum here is almost as popular as the Fenix ​​E and Instinct E forum...

In my opinion, Garmin has achieved a real innovation with the new functionality of sending/receiving photos and voice messages via satellite. I think it's just great. It's just a shame that it doesn't seem to be well received(?). I really hope that we'll see this functionality (pics/voive messages via sat) in future iR devices. In my opinion, it would be desirable for the iR devices to have a snapshot camera and microphones and speakers integrated and for received photos to be able to be seen on the device display (albeit to a limited extent) so that the device can also be used completely independently of the phone. We'll see what comes in the future.

I agree. I do’t use inReach just yet. We have a PLB for dire emergencies and mobile phone for normal comms. Of course these work intermittently where we go into the wilderness here in the UK. We are happy with that. We don’t ‘Check-in’, ever 

The M+ and new subscription packages might sway me. It would be great if I could do voice messaging without a phone and have M+ built in to a GPSMAP or Montana, By the time Garmin produce something like this I imagine the whole 2 way Sat coms scene will be very different. Probably direct mobile to Sat links available world-wide at reasonable cost? The Iridium Satellite Constellation will be scrap by then I imagine? It’s already over 20 years old, running on ancient tech  Which is why it behaves the way it does.

>The Iridium Satellite Constellation will be scrap by then I imagine?<

well it is just brand new, all satellite hardware replaced recently and all updated. This is also why it became new standard safety communication network for maritime and aeronautical use.

OK, it has limited bandwidth, but resides in extremely robust frequency band of 1.6GHz, and it is really worldwide use

Not much around to do similar job

Thanks for that I havent been interested in keeping up-to-date on this. Came across some outdated information recently, correct at the time, but things do move on .