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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by Fatalist_ma on Sunday August 29, 2021 @02:07PM (#28349010)
https://www.itabnav.com/545-large_default/iridium-go.jpg not that huge of an antenna...
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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by turminal on Sunday August 29, 2021 @02:13PM (#28349075)
That's still at least an order of magnitude bigger than the space available for this thing inside an iPhone
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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by mikestew on Sunday August 29, 2021 @02:39PM (#28349309)
not that huge of an antenna...

I would argue that you’ve just illustrated my point. It also wouldn’t take a lot to convince me that you’re being facetious.

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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by Fatalist_ma on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:33PM (#28350208)
Well it's a finger-sized antenna. Admittedly all I know about antennas is that size matters. An Iphone is bigger than a finger, why is it inconceivable that it could have a comparable antenna on its surface? Also for an Iphone this would be just one rarely-used feature, it could get by with somewhat worse reception and lower bandwidth than a dedicated satellite phone.
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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by detaro on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:41PM (#28350272)
"satellite phone, but doesn't work reliably" doesn't sound like something Apple would waste space and money on.
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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by dzhiurgis on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:04PM (#28350903)
AirTags, MacBook Pro keyboards, iPhone 4, Siri

The list is endless.

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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by detaro on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:06PM (#28350922)
At least two of those are not designed to be bad.
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Re:iPhone 13 to support LEO satellite communication by lxgr on Sunday August 29, 2021 @04:38PM (#28350252)
Mobile phones used to have antennas like this in the early 2000s, and now they don‘t anymore. I don‘t know that much about antenna design, but I‘d suspect that there might be a similar opportunity here?
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