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Skibane
Explorer II
Aug 26, 2022

New smartphone direct-to-Starlink satellite service

Uses customer's existing smartphone and firmware - No hardware or software updates required. Passes signals directly between the smartphone and Starlink satellites - No terrestrial cell towers requ...
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wa8yxm
Explorer III
Sep 21, 2022
I can not speak for Samsung, Apple or Star link only how I would do it if I were designing the phone or it's program.

IF you lose cellular... (Out of range) I'd have the phone listen for a satellite and if it sees one it would display a message. It might even "handshake" with it and let you know if it gets and ACK or not.

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