This summer, T-Mobile launched T-Satellite ServiceThis allows you to send text messages and contact emergency services outside the cellular coverage area. The company promises that starting from October, other applications will be able to use data on the Starlink network.
Autumn is here. It was September alone, and several apps on iOS and Android already supported T-satellite data.
With the release iOS 26Apple joins Google to provide compatibility with many apps such as mapping, fitness, weather and location sharing utilities that benefit from connections in remote areas.
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Compared to the phone connecting to a typical cellular or Wi-Fi network, satellite communication is very limited. The application needs to be modified specifically to work with a small amount of data streams, which is why only services that are built-in messaging applications and location sharing are available.
T-Mobile says its engineering relationship with Google, Apple enabled this initial app support, from Pixel 10 phone.
Here is the current list of compatible applications:
Apple Apps are compatible with T-Satellite:
- Apple Compass
- Apple Fitness
- Apple Map
- Apple Message
- Apple Music
- Apple Weather
Android applications compatible with T-Satellite:
- Accuweather
- alltrails
- Cartobo
- Google Find Hub
- Google Maps
- Google Messages (with Gemini)
- Google Personal Safety
- ONX remote areas
- onx hunting
- ONX Off-Road
- T-Life
- x
T-Mobile saves this list in it T-Satellite Support Pages, will undoubtedly continue to add supported applications to them.
Gavin Gee, senior director of product marketing at T-Mobile, said the applications will work with T-Satellite, regardless of which method of T-Mobile satellite service you use. If you have experience beyond the plan, include. You can also add T-Satellite as a paid add-on and access the app in other T-Mobile plans. And if you subscribe to a competitor’s plan, but you have set T-Satellite as a standalone service for secondary ESIM, you can also take advantage of these applications.
When Google’s app supported the launch of the Pixel 10 more than a month before its planned launch, Gee said Google was the first Pixel 10 device to go out. “Frankly, this feature is too important to us to stop it,” he said.
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