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The former Iridium provided phones from two vendors, Kyocera and Motorola.

The Motorola 9500 phone is a design from the first commercial phase of Iridium, whereas the 9575 model is the current version of the handset and was released in 2011.

Until the release of the 9555 in 2008, the 9505A was the sole handset sold by the company — a functionally identical clone of the Motorola 9505 with some slightly different components.

In 2011, a highly durable Iridium Extreme ( 9575 ) phone was introduced with a built-in GPS emergency button and interface to advanced location based services.

An accessory was also introduced at the same time called Iridium Axcesspoint which, when connected to a 9555 or Extreme phone, creates a Wi-Fi hotspot for smartphone email, SMS and web connections.