Amazon started aiming to fill the sky with satellites in earnest in 2023, when it launched its first satellite for Project Kuiper. Amazon is now developing those efforts under the name Project Leo (LEO is an industry acronym for low-Earth-orbit satellites). The goal is to eventually build out a fleet of thousands of satellites that can keep people connected just about anywhere they go, filling the gap between terrestrial cell networks. As Amazon put it in its press release, “The complete Amazon Leo network will include thousands of advanced satellites in low Earth orbit and have enough capacit
Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar—and What It Means for Your iPhoneApple devices that use Globalstar features, like the iPhone 14 or later and the Apple Watch Ultra 3, shouldn’t see any immediate changes. In its press release, Amazon said the company and Apple “signed an agreement to provide satellite connectivity for current and future iPhone and Apple Watch features.” It will be interesting to see how Apple, which has used privacy as a strong selling point, will square using a location-aware service run by Amazon, a company with a poor track record of keeping users’ data secure across its products and services.
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… But it'll work on all Colorsoft devices and so far, only Colorsoft devices, but we'll see if that changes over time . Amazon says you can access this by clicking on dark mode in the Quick Actions menu, and you'll be able to customize what gets dark mode from there. …
… Amazon will also control Globalstar's licensed access to wireless spectrums that enable signals to be sent from a satellite “direct-to-device.” This will likely give Amazon the ability to launch satellites that connect directly to devices sooner, rather than having to go through its own country-by-… …
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