Qualcomm working on satellite messaging for Android phones
said it was working with a group of Android smartphone companies to add satellite-based messaging capabilities to their devices.
The San Diego, California-based company, which is the world’s biggest supplier of chips that connect mobile phones to wireless data networks, said it is working with Honor, Lenovo-owned Motorola, Nothing, Oppo, Vivo and Xiaomi to develop the devices. Satellite-based communications can send and receive data in remote or rural regions where other telecommunications networks are not available.Qualcomm’s work with Android device makers is likely to intensify competition between those brands and Apple, which last yearto send emergency satellite messages as one of the flagship features of its newest iPhone line-up.
Qualcomm did not say when the new satellite messaging features from the Android smartphone brands named on Monday would become available. Earlier this year, Qualcomm said that some Android phones would have the features by the second half of this year. —
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