[tetrep]

Yeah, the promise of "do things when you don't have signal" is predicated on a chain of people with these devices existing all the way from where you are to where a cell phone signal is. Which means you need to go to popular outdoorsy places, which (IMO) are intrinsically less interesting due to being around other people.

[ricardobeat]

That would be nice, but is not what it does. It only enables communication between nearby devices (which includes gps location sharing), not mesh networking.