Bullitt Group, MediaTek Tease Satellite-to-Mobile Messaging Phone - PCMag

A British smartphone institution that releases devices nether the CAT and Motorola marque has teamed up with MediaTek connected a telephone that volition connection satellite-to-mobile messaging.

When Bullitt Group launches the instrumentality successful Q1 2023, it could beryllium a crippled changer for anyone surviving successful a rural area wherever sending substance messages isn't imaginable owed to a deficiency of cellular signal.

"We person known for a agelong clip that the reply was successful satellite, but an 'invisible' and seamless integration into a smartphone creates tremendous method challenges," says Bullitt Group co-founder Richard Wharton. "MediaTek and Bullitt stock a pioneering tone and a past of innovation truthful now, astir 2 years into our relationship, we jointly basal astatine the forefront of a caller epoch successful telecommunications and the quickest, simplest mode for our bearer transmission partners to connection full bid of caput to their customers."

This volition beryllium the archetypal telephone to usage MediaTek's 3GPP NTN (Non-Terrestrial Network) chipset, which allows the telephone to nonstop messages implicit satellite. The bundle successful the instrumentality knows whether the telephone is connected to Wi-Fi oregon cellular and volition lone nonstop messages implicit outer erstwhile neither of the accepted messaging connections is available.

It sounds similar sending messages won't instrumentality long, arsenic Bullitt says the clip to link to the outer and nonstop a connection is astir 10 seconds. Obviously, that's slower than implicit cellular oregon Wi-Fi, but it's inactive a manageable timeframe.

If you unrecorded successful a large metropolitan country and don't thin to spell backpacking successful the mountains, the value of this innovation whitethorn beryllium mislaid connected you. Still, this telephone could beryllium a large woody for radical who conflict to nonstop a elemental connection erstwhile not connected to their location Wi-Fi.

Of course, there's a batch much we request to larn astir the instrumentality earlier we walk judgment. We request to spot what the instrumentality looks like, larn astir its specs, and however overmuch it costs to nonstop messages implicit outer earlier we tin find whether this is worthy getting excited about.

The institution did accidental that it volition connection 1 twelvemonth of exigency SOS enactment for its caller device, similar to the iPhone 14.