Poll: *** The official iPhone 14 thread (it can talk to satellites, has AOD and everything!) ***
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Caporegime
inb4 exclusive to US.
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might be a silly question, but whats so special about satellite connectivity?
Caporegime
I guess if you are in the outback/off grid you can still send a message?
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I suppose that is useful for when you are in remote areas, thanks! Wont really benefit me personally that much as I spend most the time in the city
Caporegime
Yeah but you never know when you could be kidnapped by aliens and deposited in some remote area in the Nevada wilderness.
You have to think about these things.
This satellite rumour appeared just before the iPhone 13 launch and I thought it was ridiculous then. It just seems like someone has picked something utterly unbelievable and announced it as a rumour to see how far it'll spread.
Soldato
Same here.
Plus, I’m of the opinion the iPhone will go portless before it goes usb-c.
I go solo mountaineering fairly regularly, outside of mobile coverage, a separate satellite communicator is £300 minimum, and another bit of crap to carry around. If I can get emergency satellite comms on my phone, that's a huge plus for me.
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sounds like a great thing to have added into your phone tbh, connectivity from almost anywhere in the world would be very useful
It's definitely quite niche, most people are rarely going to be somewhere out of cell coverage, even if they're on a crap network, someone nearby will have signal.
There's not that many places in the UK with no signal tbf, if you're on EE, who provide the Mountain Rescue cell coverage, so they've beefed up their coverage in remote areas....but still, there's several times I've been unroped, looking down at a veeery long drop, with no signal, thinking.....it'll take weeks for someone to find me if I slip here
Soldato
Being able to get some form of comms when outside of mobile network coverage; useful in an emergency.
Globalstar is what is being rumoured (they have global coverage i believe) and supposedly Apple have already purchased/leased a number of (new) Globalstar satellites to use. But there is also the rumour that Apple may acquire Globalstar outright, so who knows.
Although from what i've read, it'll most likely be text communication (SMS and/or iMessage at best) due to limitations in bandwidth (on the Globalstar network, band 53) and hardware designs (big antennas for voice from what i understand). I wouldn't be surprised if there is a subscription involved as well.
* This appears to differ from what TMobile and SpaceX are attempting to achieve.
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Exactly, as someone whose out and about in the middle of no where in valleys, mountains etc there is no way they‘ll have it. You’d need a seperate sub in order to use it - unless apple are firing satellites up for a network. Even paying Globalstar I can’t see how they’d offer this for free?
Soldato
After improved night pictures and video for me to be tempted, also getting rid of that annoying lens flare that has plagued IPhones for years wouldn’t be a bad thing!
Soldato
Three aren't currently offering eSIM yet, they were supposed to be releasing them this year but nothing as of yet.
Why?
15 years of iPhone and we’ve had 2 port changes, no point moving to USB-C this late into the iPhone cycle unless they decide to keep USB-C around for the next 3-4 cycles of iPhones.
Wouldn’t make any sense for them unless it was a long term port like lightning.
10 years we’ve had the lightning port, May as well keep it until they go completely wireless.
Wouldn’t make any sense for them unless it was a long term port like lightning.
10 years we’ve had the lightning port, May as well keep it until they go completely wireless.