Android 14 to Come With Satellite Connectivity, Hiroshi Lockheimer Reveals

Android 14 will assist satellite tv for pc connectivity in line with Google’s Senior Vice President of Platforms and Ecosystems Hiroshi Lockheimer. He has confirmed that the corporate is ‘designing for satellites’ and helps its companions in bringing this function to the following model of Android. This revelation comes nearly per week after T-Mobile and SpaceX introduced their plan to eradicate useless zones around the globe with Starlink V2. It will join customers on to satellites eliminating the necessity for cellphone towers. Similarly, a current report means that Apple already has satellite tv for pc connectivity engaged on the iPhone 14.

Lockheimer hints that the consumer expertise for smartphones straight connecting to a satellite tv for pc can be vastly totally different from common mobile connectivity. Not a lot else was revealed by him, besides this function can be enabled in Android 14.

Wild to consider consumer experiences for telephones that may connect with satellites. When we launched G1 in ’08 it was a stretch to get 3G + Wifi working. Now we’re designing for satellites. Cool! Excited to assist our companions in enabling all of this within the subsequent model of Android!

— Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) September 1, 2022

In associated information, SpaceX and T-Mobile have partnered to additionally convey satellite tv for pc connectivity to telephones within the US. The telecom operator plans to utilise 1000’s of Starlink satellites to present cellular customers wi-fi connectivity in distant elements of the nation. This service may supply textual content message assist by the second half of 2023. Voice and knowledge providers are anticipated to reach later.

Elon Musk additionally tweeted that the Starlink V2 service can be launched in 2023 with the plans of “eliminating dead zones worldwide.” He supplied an open invitation to different carriers to work with Starlink.

Apple can be eager on providing satellite tv for pc connectivity on the upcoming iPhone 14 sequence. According to a current report, the Cupertino firm had already completed the {hardware} take a look at for satellite tv for pc communication on iPhone 14 earlier than the smartphones reached the mass manufacturing stage. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is uncertain in regards to the availability of this function on the iPhone 14 as Apple should strike a cope with a satellite tv for pc operator. If it’s included, satellite tv for pc connectivity on the iPhone 14 sequence will solely supply emergency textual content and voice providers.