T-mobile's Starlink Satellite Service Just Got A Huge App Upgrade - Adding Whatsapp, Maps, And More

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• T-Mobile's Starlink outer work now offers app connectivity.
• Apps see WhatsApp, X, Google Maps, AccuWeather, and more.
• The work is included connected immoderate plans, costs $10 a period connected others.

T-Mobile's Starlink-powered outer service is getting a awesome upgrade pinch nan summation of celebrated apps.

Earlier this year, T-Mobile introduced a satellite connectivity option that lets you nonstop and person messages if you aren't wrong scope of a compartment tower. The work expanded to allow photos, audio, and video a fewer months ago, and now it's expanding to see immoderate captious apps.

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In an announcement this week, nan institution said T-Satellite customers tin now entree basal off-the-grid apps. Most of nan apps are geared toward outdoor adventures for illustration hiking, but a fewer supply perchance life-saving connectivity.

Which apps activity pinch T-Satellite?

Here's what apps are now disposable pinch T-Satellite:

1. WhatsApp: In summation to accepted texting and calling, you tin now nonstop messages, sound notes, and photos, aliases make calls to contacts done WhatsApp. "You tin still spot faces, perceive voices, and stock updates securely," T-Mobile says, moreover if you're successful an area without compartment service. T-Mobile added that if you're successful an emergency situation, it's still champion to usage text-to-911 done accepted means.
2. X: Want to enactment informed while connected nan spell successful distant locations? You tin now scroll trending topics, stock updates, and subordinate conversations connected X from anywhere. You tin station text, photos, GIFs, aliases videos, and you moreover person an action to power erstwhile high-resolution media loads truthful you don't discarded data.
3. T-Life: The main hub for your T-Mobile customer work needs is disposable arsenic well. You tin spot and motorboat satellite-ready apps, stock your location via SMS, and moreover chat unrecorded pinch a built-in helper.
4. AllTrails: One of nan astir celebrated outdoor exploration apps, AllTrails helps you find your adjacent hike, whether it's a locomotion successful nan parkland aliases a upland summit. You tin spot navigation and stock your location successful existent clip connected much than 500,000 trails astir nan world.
5. AccuWeather: This app lets you spot hyperlocal forecasts down to nan minute, including real-time large wind alerts. You tin way terrible upwind better, spot nan UV index, and show aerial quality.
6. CalTopo: With CalTopo, you tin build civilization maps for your adjacent hike, skis trip, aliases climb. The app lets you crippled your route, way your location successful existent time, and enactment safe pinch features for illustration slope perspective shading and wildfire activity layers.
7. onX: onX's suite of apps, including onX Backcountry, onX Hunt, onX Offroad, and onX Fish, fto you find hiking trails, powder stashes, campsites, nationalist and backstage spot boundaries, two-track and single-track routes, and lakes to fish. It besides has real-time upwind conditions, upwind forecasts, and animal activity predictions.
8. Google Maps: Google Maps lets you spot maps and aerial photography, get real-time GPS navigation for foot, car, aliases bike, and more. If you're ever mislaid and you're not successful scope of a compartment tower, you tin now usage Google Maps to get backmost connected track.

How to get T-Satellite

T-Satellite is disposable for free connected nan company's Experience Beyond and Go5G Next plans. 

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If you don't person 1 of those plans, you tin adhd nan work for $10 a month. The work is disposable connected a number of devices, including nan iPhone 13 and above, nan Google Pixel 9 and supra (including nan a series), almost each 2024 and 2025 phones from Motorola, almost each Samsung phones since 2023, and nan T-Mobile REVVL 7 and 8.

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