T-Mobile has opened beta registration for Starlink’s direct-to-smartphone satellite service, enabling text messaging early next year on select newer devices in most U.S. cellular dead zones with a …
    • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      From my understanding, any current smartphone should be compatible. As long as it has, I believe it’s the band 2, 1900 megahertz frequency, which most phones today and that have been sold in the past like 10 years do.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 hours ago

      Supposedly any 4G or 5G phone is compatible.

      I would imagine they will start with flagship phones to help drive adoption and will later open it up further.