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Have you seen the antenna on Iridium devices? Think that's going to fly on an iPhone? Yes, we all know that there is existing technology, no need to ask rhetori

Have you seen the antenna on Iridium devices? Think that's going to fly on an iPhone? Yes, we all know that there is existing technology, no need to ask rhetorical questions. Just saying "Iridium" doesn't solve the problems that still need to be solved, though.

Fatalist_ma 5y ago
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?