I apologize if this has been posted a dozen times already. I searched and did not see it... Real Men Use Android: Special Forces Favor Google Phone | Danger Room | Wired.com
It's a life and death situation, and to the best of my knowledge, they are not suicidal. Thus, I'll bet they aren't gonna be manufactured by Samsung
The idea of them using an Android phone is a really nice change of pace from the way Defense procurement used to be. I remember doing a GPS comparison years ago at an Army base I used to work on. We compared a Garmin GPS to an uncoded PLGR (Precision Lightweight GPS Receiver). The PLGR was 4 times the size, weighed a whole lot more, and literally cost 10x what the Garmin GPS cost. Custom devices may have certain benefits over off-the-shelf but the cost difference is staggering... Mr. Jobs? Is that you?
