2y ago

Android 14 Will Bring Support For Satellite SMS Starting With Pixel And Galaxy Phones, Will Require Supported Hardware

wccftech.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/1291627

Does anyone know if current Pixel/Samsung hardwarewill support this??

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2y ago

Android 14 Will Bring Support For Satellite SMS Starting With Pixel And Galaxy Phones, Will Require Supported Hardware

wccftech.com /android-14-satellite-sms/

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Can we just get third party RCS support
- Google recently announced they're backing the new RFC 9420 standard - no clue what that means for the future of RCS or if this standard will go anywhere but optimistically this can be the one everyone gets behind and is open to everyone? 🤷
  
  That's not a messaging standard, it's just a specific security protocol. Doesn't really have much to directly do with RCS.
- What do you mean? On my Pixel 6 I already get RCS messages from other phones
  
  Third party apps like Textra or Pulse can't access the RCS APIs, if you want to use a different carrier messaging app you can't use RCS currently. Also as far as I know the system doesn't actually know what RCS messages are and they're stored as SMS/MMS internally. Like if you restore from a backup or clear data on Google Messages, all your existing RCS messages appear as SMS/MMS.
Eh, maybe take this with a grain of salt - I cross posted this from !android@lemdro.id, but taking a closer look at the article their source is this tweet (nitter link), and the account directly says in the account bio "Not a Google Account, not affiliated with Google". So just be warned this is not an official announcement from the Pixel team like the article claims.
Theoretically if the chipset supports the bands whatever satellite provider uses, the phone can support it.
Given the terrestrial radio performance of my 6, I wouldn't ditch my satphone for it.
- And it has a reasonable antenna and a proper amplifier. The kit to talk to the satellites isn't usually exactly like the kit to talk to cell phone towers. In theory you send and receive on the correct frequency and it just happens but usually you either need to be pushing a little bit more power or you need to be highly directional to get reliable communication.

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