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https://www.itabnav.com/545-large_default/iridium-go.jpg https://www.itabnav.com/545-large_default/iridium-go.jpg not that huge of an antenna...

• turminal 5y ago
  That's still at least an order of magnitude bigger than the space available for this thing inside an iPhone
• mikestew 5y ago
  not that huge of an antenna... I would argue that you’ve just illustrated my point. It also wouldn’t take a lot to convince me that you’re being facetious.
  • Fatalist_ma 5y ago
    Well it's a finger-sized antenna. Admittedly all I know about antennas is that size matters. An Iphone is bigger than a finger, why is it inconceivable that it could have a comparable antenna on its surface? Also for an Iphone this would be just one rarely-used feature, it could get by with somewhat worse reception and lower bandwidth than a dedicated satellite phone.
    • detaro 5y ago
      "satellite phone, but doesn't work reliably" doesn't sound like something Apple would waste space and money on.
      • dzhiurgis 5y ago
        AirTags, MacBook Pro keyboards, iPhone 4, Siri The list is endless.
        • detaro 5y ago
          At least two of those are not designed to be bad.
  • lxgr 5y ago
    Mobile phones used to have antennas like this in the early 2000s, and now they don‘t anymore. I don‘t know that much about antenna design, but I‘d suspect that there might be a similar opportunity here?