Last week, SpaceX and mobile carrier T-Mobile announced that they would bring satellite connectivity to smartphones. Following this, Google has now said that future versions will support this connection Androidwell, so Android 14.
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Google, through its senior vice president of Platforms & Ecosystems, said that the user experience with phones that will be able to connect to satellites will be different from LTE and 5G connectivity. As Space Explorer noted last week, we should expect speeds, connections, and even interaction times to be different, with only two to four megabits of bandwidth per cell zone. Given the available bandwidth, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said satellite connectivity could support one to two thousand simultaneous phone calls or hundreds of thousands of text messages (depending on their length).
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The satellite connection on phones will primarily be aimed at emergency situations and eradicating so-called dead zones (that is, areas without a mobile signal, see e.g. oceans, high mountain areas or deserts). The operator T-Mobile plans to support the sending of "texts" and MMS messages, as well as selected messaging applications. The company said it would need to work with partners to "separate messaging traffic from all other data traffic." She added that she would like to launch the service (for now only in test mode) at the end of next year. However, it is going to be on September 7 performance iPhone 14. According to all reports so far, it should be the first "regular" phone that will bring some form of satellite communication.
