While most mobile devices are waiting to receive their update to Android 13, we see how Google announces one of the main novelties of Android 14of the next version of its operating system which would not officially reach the market for another year.
And the novelty is due to the ambitious announcement that Elon Musk made last week to allow our mobiles to connect directly to satellites. Google confirms that Android 14 will be ready to connect to satellites.
Your next Android could connect to satellites
It was confirmed Hiroshi Lockheimer, senior vice president of Android, Chrome, Chrome OS and Google Photos. has succeeded your twitter profileinforming that they are already designing Android so that the next version will support the satellite connectivityand it’s ok with the help of its partners.
Wild to think about user experiences for phones that can connect to satellites. When we launched G1 in 2008, it was hard to get 3G+Wifi to work. Now we design for satellites. Cool! We’re excited to help our partners enable all of this in the next version of Android!
— Hiroshi Lockheimer (@lockheimer) September 1, 2022
Hiroshi Lockheimer does not mention his partners but it is clear that Starlink and T-Mobile He will be one of its first partners, since the two companies announced on August 25 that they would work together to increase mobile connectivity thanks to Elon Musk’s satellite network.
Currently, the few Android satellite phones on the market have a huge antenna and it was the manufacturers who had to add their own connectivity. With the arrival of Android 14, said support will be native.
It seems that in the coming months mobiles will begin to arrive which can be connected to a satellite to receive the Internet. In addition, it is rumored that there will be an iPhone 14 model with satellite connectivity and if this is confirmed, the rest of the manufacturers will soon follow in Apple’s footsteps.
Through | 9to5Google
