Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Satellite SOS for Android plan is dead

Earlier this year, Qualcomm announced a partnership with satellite connectivity provider Iridium to create Snapdragon Satellite, a proprietary technology to connect smartphones to satellites in order to provide emergency and other services. Ten months after the plan was announced, the companies are already calling it off.

As reported by CNBC, Qualcomm blames phone makers for the death of the feature, saying that there wasn't much interest from brands to include the proprietary feature. While the company says that they “successfully developed and demonstrated the technology," phone makers just “have not included the technology in their devices."

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