Good news, a year after its appearance on the first smartphones (¹), Apple finally integrates a GNSS receiver chipset compatible GALILEO. The iPhone 8/8+ and soon iPhone X are now equipped with the Snapdragon X16 LTE modem MDM9655 from Qualcomm, which includes a multi-GNSS receiver : GPS (USA), GLONASS (Russia), GALILEO (Europe) and QZSS (Japan) (²).
[Update 15/12/2017] The iPhone 6S and 7 are now compatible with Galileo signals.
So, we will have soon no less a hundred positioning satellite above our masts. Indeed, The Galileo system, already operational with 18 satellites (dont 15 Activated), will be complemented by four new satellites, which were originally scheduled to be launched on 9 August by the Ariane launcher 5 was postponed on 12 next December. A contract has already been signed with Arianespace, concerning the following four satellites, for the first launch by the future rocket Ariane 6 planned between the end of 2020 and mid-2021.
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(¹) GALILEO and Apple mobiles
(²) Read 2016 Year of Galileo as well as Beidou-3 China accelerates…
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NOTE :
Constellations status :
GPS – BeiDou – GLONASS – GALILEO
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Hello Francis,
What to do to pass Galileo, I have an iPhone 4S that works very well with iNavX, I'm afraid to change…by switching to a new phone. In fact I use it to browse and my emails.
My battery is starting to weaken but it's still okay with my inverter 300 watts.
I'm afraid because once I lost my X-traverse cards.
I have my paper cards and my sextant, This reassures me, it's still good to have iNavX in full screen, and thank you for your info.
To use Galileo satellites in addition to other, you must have a compatible processor. So of course not the iPhone 4S, which can no longer receive iOS updates.
You will inevitably have to change your device one day or another.