New smartphone direct-to-Starlink satellite service

pianotuna wrote:
I can understand receiving a signal from a more powerful satellite, but how is 1/10 of a watt going to "reply"?

I read there are new satellites with larger antenna for this.
Maybe the phone would know if there is no ground service to up the wattage some just to send a text. No streaming movies during the initial roll out.

SpaceX has already done the impossible in so many other areas... this was inevitable.