After years of bickering mainly over patent royalties, Apple and Qualcomm finally decided to make peace with each other in 2019. A few months after that, Apple then bought over Intel’s modem business but despite that, it seemed that the company is still using Qualcomm’s chip even with the newly launched iPhone 14 series.
As per previous iPhone models, you can certainly expect to see certain parties out there to get their tools out and tear down the new iPhone 14 models. The Hong Kong-based outfit WekiHome as well as the world-famous iFixit are among those that are already on it.
In case you are not familiar with the name, Globalstar is the satellite company that is currently working with Apple to enable one of the iPhone 14 series’ new signature features: the ability to send Emergency SOS via satellite. It does not work as per normal messaging text-by-text style though since satellites are technically moving objects that are located so far away above the earth.
Not only that, satellites also have limited bandwidth even for text messaging. This is why Apple has come out with several preset responses and compression algorithms as well as on-ground emergency relay centres to address these challenges.
This particular feature which will be free to users for the first two years after activation has been scheduled to be deployed to users this coming November although it will be limited to US and Canada consumers at launch.
