Posted on 08/06/2022 3:49:29 AM PDT by FarCenter
China is seeking to promote the civil use of its satellite navigation system with the launch of a new chip that can support short messages on smartphones in remote areas.
The built-in chip would allow smartphone users to send and receive short messages through the country’s BeiDou navigation satellite system, Yang Changfeng, chief architect of the system and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, told media in a recent interview.
Yang said China would optimize the use of its satellites and telecommunication facilities to improve the performance of BeiDou, which is now accurate to within one meter.
Chen Zhonggui, chief designer of the BeiDou-3 satellite, said 45 BeiDou satellites were now in operation. Chen said the system was accurate to within three to five meters globally and within one to three meters in the Asia-Pacific region.
On Wednesday, China North Industries Corporation, China Mobile, China Electronics Technology Group Corp and local mobile phone makers jointly launched a chip that can allow mobile phone users to send and receive short messages through BeiDou.
BeiDou’s Yang said this new feature could help protect people in wild areas and deep-sea fishery workers. Yang said more and more applications would be introduced to consumers while driverless vehicles would use BeiDou in the future.
In 2021, 324 million smartphones, accounting for 94.5% of China’s domestic smartphone shipments, were compatible with Beidou’s navigation system, according to Caixin.
A 22-nanometer BeiDou high-precision positioning chip was launched in September 2020 and has been mass-produced since last year. The chip, which is small enough to be built into smartphones, can also receive signals from the US’ GPS, Russia’s Glonass and the European Union’s Galileo systems.
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So this is for their own domestic use, riiiiight.
So hack the phones to give locations in china and call for air support.
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