Samsung seems to be ready to take some alleviation from Apple formerly more and follow in the American company’s steps when it comes to bringing satellite communication to smartphones. Apple has its Emergency SOS point that works via satellite on the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro lines, which works through a cooperation with Globalstar, and Samsung is now said to be working with Iridium to bring satellite dispatches to the Galaxy S23 family.
Iridium is a 66-strong Low Earth route satellite constellation which provides voice and data services. Samsung has been working on prostrating the specialized challenges of bringing satellite dispatches to smartphones for the once two times, and it looks like it’s eventually managed to- since with the launch of the Galaxy S23 family, scuttlebutt has it you will be suitable to shoot textbook dispatches and small images( in the hundreds of kbps) via satellite.
As you might have anticipated if you’ve ever seen a devoted satellite phone, the main challenge was to miniaturize the antenna so that it can be mounted into a regular smartphone without doubling its size.
Samsung does not anticipate this point to take off in its home turf in Korea since the land area there’s small and it’s veritably well covered with 5G service but thinks it can be a real success in North and South America, Europe, Russia, and China, especially in those corridor where structure is not veritably well developed.
According to former leaks and rumors, the Galaxy S23 family will simply use a advanced binned interpretation of Qualcomm’s lately unveiled Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, and the launch is going to take place in the first week of February.