{"id":178330,"date":"2023-01-06T01:07:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/android-one-ups-apples-satellite-sos-with-general-purpose-satellite-sms\/"},"modified":"2023-01-06T01:07:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-06T01:07:32","slug":"android-one-ups-apples-satellite-sos-with-general-purpose-satellite-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/android-one-ups-apples-satellite-sos-with-general-purpose-satellite-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"Android one-ups Apple&#8217;s satellite SOS with general-purpose satellite SMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>Qualcomm<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside id=\"social-left\" class=\"social-left\" aria-label=\"Read the comments or share this article\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- cache hit 236:single\/related:d340ec7bff77e76856fabb72d6ea88c2 --><!-- empty --><\/p>\n<p>Hey Android users!  Are you jealous of the iPhone 14&#8217;s ability to connect to satellites?  Well, it&#8217;s been a few months, and Qualcomm is already getting a similar feature up and running on Android.  Meet &#8220;Snapdragon Satellite&#8221; a way to send satellite messages from a normal-sized Android phone.  Unlike on the iPhone, this is real, two-way, SMS-style texting that you&#8217;ll supposedly be able to use for more casual conversations instead of the iPhone&#8217;s highly compressed, emergency-only, one-way questionnaire system that discourages composing a message.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm&#8217;s solution will run on the Iridium satellite constellation\u2014this is the 25-year-old, 66-satellite network that powers traditional, purpose-built satellite phones with giant external antennas.  Qualcomm says this is now going to work with normal-sized smartphones and with normal, internal-only antennas.  Qualcomm&#8217;s VP of Product Management, Francesco Grilli, gave a big overview of the service and says &#8220;in most cases&#8221; you won&#8217;t even need a new antenna.  Iridium runs in the 1-2 GHz L Band, the same as GPS and some mid-band cellular service, so your phone already has an antenna for this.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not to say it will work without any new hardware, but Qualcomm will build it into its standard RF loadout without requiring any major new components.  This is a great situation compared to mmWave 5G, which added a big, extra, expensive antenna to your phone that very few people can use.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img full-width\" style=\"width:980px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"You might have to hold up your phone, but you'll get normal, two-way SMS over a special app.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/chrome_zgt8BpsHQs-980x549.png?resize=980%2C549&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"980\" height=\"549\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> You might have to hold up your phone, but you&#8217;ll get normal, two-way SMS over a special app.<\/div>\n<p>Qualcomm<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just like with the iPhone, skipping out on the normal big, external antenna means dealing with a specific set of compromises.  Unlike an always-on cellular connection, you&#8217;ll fire up some targeting app and might be asked to point your phone at a location in the sky and wait for a connection.  Voice calls, which are possible on Iridium with a traditional satellite phone, are out, and this is data-only.  The connection uses the Iridium protocol, just like a real satellite phone.  Grilli describes the communication as &#8220;<span class=\"\">closer<\/span> <span class=\"\">to<\/span> <span class=\"\">2 G [GSM or EDGE] <\/span><span class=\"\">than<\/span> <span class=\"\">to<\/span> <span class=\"\">5G.&#8221; It&#8217;s an old-school TDMA (time-division multiple access) setup, where any one user talking to a specific antenna will monopolize that connection spectrum, and everyone else has to wait. (Keep in mind this &#8220;waiting&#8221; is an order of milliseconds, and satellites have multiple antennas.) FDMA (frequency division multiple access) is how all your other phone wireless technologies work. FDMA allows for higher-bandwidth and multiple simultaneous users, but that&#8217;s difficult when you&#8217;re talking about outer space communications.<\/span><\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad_wrapper\" aria-label=\"In Content advertisement\">\n    <span class=\"ad_notice\">Advertisement <\/span>    <\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<figure class=\"image shortcode-img right medium\" style=\"width:250px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"This is what a normal Iridium phone looks like, but we're going to make do without the bulky antenna.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_PRD_Iridium-Extreme_Faceplate_YEL-300x727.jpg?resize=250%2C606&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/IMG_PRD_Iridium-Extreme_Faceplate_YEL-640x1550.jpg 2x\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"caption-text\">enlarge <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> This is what a normal Iridium phone looks like, but we&#8217;re going to make do without the bulky antenna.<\/div>\n<p>iridium<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Qualcomm&#8217;s performance promises here seem good compared to Apple&#8217;s solution.  Grilli says you&#8217;ll be able to send a &#8220;full-size SMS in less than 10 seconds, and on average, it takes three seconds.&#8221;  That&#8217;s faster than the iPhone&#8217;s 15 seconds for an emergency SOS, which is a highly compressed questionnaire message and not a full SMS.  The iPhone is on a different Globalstar constellation with different characteristics.  That Globalstar constellation has only 24 satellites covering the world, which is not good enough for continuous 24\/7 coverage.  These satellites are moving around, so there&#8217;s a regular up-and-down cadence to the Globalstar service that lasts for minutes at a time for any given location.  With 66 satellites in the Iridium constellation, you should always have service, and you might not even need to do that &#8220;hold your phone up&#8221; dance to get a connection.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, you&#8217;ll have to pay someone to access the satellite network.  Qualcomm is a chip provider and didn&#8217;t want to get into ISP or messaging app details.  Texts to 911 (or your local equivalent) will be free, without any kind of plan, just like how cellular works (this is a law).  If you&#8217;re paying for a premium plan, Qualcomm&#8217;s proprietary setup allows for whatever messaging standard you want to use, either bog-standard SMS with your normal phone number or some over-the-top service (ie, WhatsApp), but operators will need to figure that out.  Some existing standard would be great since only one person would need to pay for the satellite service and could talk to the outside world.<\/p>\n<p>Qualcomm says the service will be available in phones in the second half of the year for phones launched in North America and Europe.  Hardware support technically starts in the Qualcomm Snapdragon Gen 2 SoC, which already has a few announced devices, but it sounds like satellite compatibility will be an add-on feature manufacturers need to plan for.  The company says several partners are already working on designs.  While the feature is exclusive to flagship devices, for now, Qualcomm says new, cheaper chips might also incorporate the feature, depending on what the customer reception is like.  It&#8217;s also interested in bringing the feature to cars.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qualcomm Hey Android users! Are you jealous of the iPhone 14&#8217;s ability to connect to satellites? Well, it&#8217;s been a few months, and Qualcomm is already getting a similar feature up and running on Android. Meet &#8220;Snapdragon Satellite&#8221; a way to send satellite messages from a normal-sized Android phone. Unlike on the iPhone, this is &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/android-one-ups-apples-satellite-sos-with-general-purpose-satellite-sms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Android one-ups Apple&#8217;s satellite SOS with general-purpose satellite SMS<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Android one-ups Apple&#039;s satellite SOS with general-purpose satellite SMS - harchi90<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMibmh0dHBzOi8vYXJzdGVjaG5pY2EuY29tL2dhZGdldHMvMjAyMy8wMS9xdWFsY29tbS1zYXlzLWl0LWJ1aWx0LWEtYmV0dGVyLXNhdGVsbGl0ZS1tZXNzYWdpbmctc3lzdGVtLXRoYW4tYXBwbGUv0gFyaHR0cHM6Ly9hcnN0ZWNobmljYS5jb20vZ2FkZ2V0cy8yMDIzLzAxL3F1YWxjb21tLXNheXMtaXQtYnVpbHQtYS1iZXR0ZXItc2F0ZWxsaXRlLW1lc3NhZ2luZy1zeXN0ZW0tdGhhbi1hcHBsZS9hbXAv?oc=5\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Android one-ups Apple&#039;s satellite SOS with general-purpose satellite SMS - harchi90\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Qualcomm Hey Android users! 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