I was only talking yesterday about how future forecasters had over-enthusiastic ideas about how the world of tomorrow would communicate - video phones figure highly, as do satellite phones. Now if the former haven’t taken off primarily because we’d rather be free to pick our nose while screaming at telemarketers, the slow-growth of the latter has been down to more mundane reasons: the insane expense of calls and the insane ugliness of available handsets. In a world of KRZRs and Chocolates, carrying a brick with a flap-out satellite dish doesn’t make you cool, it just makes you look like a bit of a house that has fallen off. Globalstar, though, has had enough of the other wireless carriers sniggering behind their hands, and have introduced the GSP-1700.