Yesterday, Huawei announced a new line of Mate 50 smartphones.
The flagship Mate 50 Pro received a Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 processor with 8 GB of working memory and 256/512 GB of internal memory. Equipped with a 6.74 inch OLED display with an incidence of 2616×1212 frequency and a frequency of 120 Hz.
The main feature of the novelty is that it is the world’s first smartphone with support for satellite communications. True, it only works in China through the BeiDou network. Special application in the absence of a cellular signal of the Swiss satellite network – you can only send text and popular geotags.
There is no built-in support for 5G due to America taking against Huawei. To connect to this network, a proprietary case is used. Runs on HarmonyOS 3.0.
Earlier SpaceX and T-Mobile announced the imminent deployment of satellite communications for smartphones. Google said that support will appear in Android 14 in 2023.
According to rumors, the iPhone 14 will also support communication via satellites. [The Verge]
Source: Iphones RU
