IPhone 13: Calls and messages via satellite?

You can send and receive calls and messages even without iPhone 13 cell coverage. But how? According to Ming-Ci Quo, the future smartphone will use a network of communications satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO), orbiting satellites up to an altitude of 2,000 kilometers. In the future, Apple may use this technology in its advanced reality headset, car and other IoT (Internet of Things) accessories.

To achieve this, the iPhone 13 is based on a modified version of the Qualcomm X60 modem. The researcher did not say whether satellite communications could be received and transmitted only with Apple’s (FaceTime, for example) services. It is also unknown whether additional charges will be levied for these communications.

This new rumor that falls a few weeks before the main text is quite surprising, but the rumors surrounding Apple’s interest in satellites are not new. By 2015, Apple would have been Near Boeing Build a communications satellite. In 2019, Bloomberg He taught us to own a building Strengthened its engineering team Around these satellite projects.