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Huawei launches first smartphone with satellite texting

by Sam Adeniyi
September 7, 2022
in Gadgets
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Huawei launches first smartphone with satellite texting

Yu Chengdong, CEO of Huawei's device business group and CEO of the company's intelligent automotive solution business unit, at the online launch of Huawei's Mate 50 series smartphones on Tuesday. [Provided to China Daily]

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Huawei has announced its Mate 5O series will have the ability to send texts via satellite communication.

According to Verge, Huawei made this announcement ahead of Apple’s iPhone 14 unveiling event in September.

The Mate 50 and Mate 50 Pro will be able to send short texts and utilize navigation; a feature that iPhone 14 will also offer.

China’s global BeiDou satellite network working with Huawei will allow users of the mobile to communicate in areas without cellular signals.

The flagship Mate 50 series includes 4G-only versions of the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 chipset with 8GB of RAM. The 50 Pro comes with a slightly bigger 6.74-inch OLED display with a 120Hz refresh rate, while the Mate 50 offers a 6.7-inch, 90Hz OLED panel.

Both include a 50-megapixel main rear camera with a variable aperture lens with stops from f/1.4 to f/4, most smartphone cameras use fixed apertures, so a moving aperture is neat, but the lens itself is so small that it’s unlikely to create any kind of meaningful difference in depth-of-field in most situations.

Both models share a 13-megapixel f/2.2 ultrawide, and while each has a telephoto lens, the Pro gets an upgraded 64-megapixel camera capable of 200x digital zoom — the standard Mate 50 offers 100x digital zoom with a lower-res 12-megapixel sensor.

If you feel like you’re hearing a lot about satellite-based communication these days, it’s because T-Mobile and SpaceX just announced a partnership that aims to bring this feature to T-Mobile subscribers by way of Starlink satellites. And the rumors of Apple’s satellite messaging feature have been swirling since last year.

In all of these cases, the technology will likely be limited, at least at first. T-Mobile says its system will allow for text and even picture messaging, but voice calls and data won’t be coming until later.

And based on Huawei’s description of the system, it looks like the Mate 50 phones will only be able to send texts by satellite, and won’t be able to receive them.

In all of these cases, satellite-based texting aims to provide an emergency connection in places without a signal to get urgent messages out, rather than a way to keep up with your group chats while you’re out of cell range.

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