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Kuo: iPhone 13 to Feature LEO Satellite Communications to Make Calls and Texts Without Cellular Coverage
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Based on what you’re saying, it seems to be an extremely limited use case. Either this report is false or Apple has figured out a way around the limitations. I just don’t see them devoting years of r&d into a narrow niche technology — unless they thought they could improve on it and expand use cases.
Don't you think cell phone providers will see value if they don't have to rely on towers completely? This will fill the gaps in their coverage....it's golden.
It will fill the cellular dead spots for voice and text....they didn't say it would be for streaming.
I read corresponding article about a year ago. Band53 chipset to be included on Nokia's chipset.
You took all the fun out of that way too quickly 😄
Sorry to be "that smug European" but I suspect that a lot if issues people In the US seam to have with their phones are more of an indication if lacking RANs rgan the phones, unless I'm in the middel of fing nowhere I have good voice coverage, and mostly good or better 4G and more and more often even 5G. Ofc in the middel if niwhwew even voice can be spotty sometimes and ofc the OS has a lot more of those places than an average European country doue to it's vastly larger land mass
Since the functionality comes from qualcomm, not so much from Apple, it’s not clear to me how much R&D they put in. In any event, apple is big on saving lives, and this technology would certainly save some lives, and would be very helpful in natural disasters, war zones, etc., of which there are more and more.
Few options:
1. maybe it's a first responder device, we won't know until the model numbers get reported
2. maybe it falls in line with the dual-sim capability and now there's a satcom sim? chargeable to a different carrier
3. maybe this is Qualcomm's newest modem and has multi-band capability but we may not see its full functionality yet
4. maybe it's a false leak that Apple threw out there to determine where the leaks are
What you’re missing is that in America we have a lot more “middle of f’ing nowhere” than does Europe. Even on the highly populated coasts, there is a lot of “f’ing nowhere,’ and that’s certainly the case in the middle of the country. So the places where most people live (urban and suburban areas, primarily on the coasts, but also urban areas scattered about the rest of the nation) have pretty decent coverage (though not always from every carrier). But anyone who has to go to, say, east texas/west louisiana, or Kansas, or whatever, is a lot less likely to find a decent 4G signal, let alone a 5G signal.
To clarify, outside of cities, our decent cell coverage spots typically follow the interstate highway system.
However, the great thing about the US is that we don’t get coverage everywhere. We Americans love our National Parks and being there without getting interrupted by work, etc is bliss. Is this problematic in rural areas that people live in? Definitely but at least there is an upside for now.
That is pretty cool! I can imagine hiking and feeling comfortable that I can make a phone call. I imagine battery life will be suck, but a PD charger would fix that.
NEVER count Apple out when it comes to technology. If they can make it work it will be a game changer and the shareholders will be grinning ear to ear - again. Go Apple!
Just because the chip supports a feature, doesn’t mean Apple will enable it. For years apple used chips that supported FM radio and never enabled it.
I had a Nano that supported it and it was really just generally worthless. Bad signal, static, iffy reception when moving, and I had how many music tracks? Why would I want FM. I mean, why not throw in CB radio too! 'Breaker 19'...
Some people do use their FM radios. Sure. Rock it if you have to. I value Bluetooth and Sirius/XM.
Anyone remember FMHD? Is that what it was called? So get your commercials in 'CD quality' audio? Sure. I'm so excited... What happened to SACD? And those MiniDisk players that were supposed to end up *everywhere*?
Technology has no mercy as it marches on.
(And bubble memory? 3D cube memory? Quantum Mechanics memory? Star Trek Next Gen memory sticks? Low cal IPAs? (What was the urge to trash IPAs? Good grief people!😡))
Interesting, could be a game changer, although how is the antenna going to work...
The antenna on my Garmin i66 is a decent size, i can't see how it can be reduced for a iPhone.
Maybe they will offer a slip on battery case with larger antenna for better reception and protection for out on the trail.
The antenna on my Garmin i66 is a decent size, i can't see how it can be reduced for a iPhone.
Maybe they will offer a slip on battery case with larger antenna for better reception and protection for out on the trail.
I road tripped last weekend, and the 'Dead Zones' seem to have multiplied since I was last driving around trying to get to an event I didn't want to go to.
Like WOW!!! No bars, no service... Is this America (in a dry county), or a sad simulacrum of a civilized technologically based world leading country trying to show that they really still have it? I mean, I'm retired, and, well, who needs me, but still, I feel 'naked' when *someone* (a spam caller?) can't reach me in their haste to sell me yet another extended warranty on a car I sold two years ago!
Cell phone service is so spotty. Maybe a sat-phone is the way to go. Then I literally can pay out the *** for every spam call...
The suggestion that this would be coupled with network operators for service is a terrible way for Apple to go about it.
The cellular operators will charge like $30 per month for and it’ll never get adopted. Just like how most Apple Watch users never adopted cellular because all the US operators decided to nickel and dime us for insignificant amounts of data used from the watch.
The cellular operators will charge like $30 per month for and it’ll never get adopted. Just like how most Apple Watch users never adopted cellular because all the US operators decided to nickel and dime us for insignificant amounts of data used from the watch.
WHAT?
I was told that if I enabled cell phone service for my Apple Watch, I could save money by paying the surcharge, dump my grandfathered account, and would be able to get my spam calls on my Apple Watch, and save the effort to grab my iPhone to hit ignore. Actually, it's hysterical. I can still send and receive cell phone calls on my cellular Apple Watch, without cellular service being enabled on the Apple Watch! So, is it necessary? No. Stunned? Don't be... Just move on with your life, and possibly save some money? Who knows...
But stainless was only available with the cellular AW. I'm sure it was planned that way. I feel so used. 😧😎
SiriusXM radios always used button-sized antennas. Not sure what you mean there....
The entire land mass of Europa would easily fit within the continental United States. Moot point. And lets not forget our friends in the "land of OZ"(Australia). THERE'S a continent with cellular coverage challenges...
Just did a quick google search for LEO services, and can't find anything where I can subscribe today as a consumer. I can guarantee you that if iPhone 13 comes with LEO support, then Apple will provide this network service directly.
