A digital chat station on Weibo reported on November 10 that the next-generation OPPO Find flagship OPPO Find X7 series will support satellite connectivity. OPPO also announced this on the company’s official WeChat. Following in the footsteps of Huawei, which launched indoor satellite connectivity with the Mate 50 and Mate 60 series, OPPO plans to join the club with the Find X7 series devices.

Satellite connectivity is a communication process in which your smartphone communicates via satellite instead of using a cellular connection. This is an engineering marvel for a smartphone, as it manages to connect to the nearest orbiting satellite without taking over the radio antennas of older satellite phones. If you are wondering, we explained in detail what satellite communication is on your smartphone.

Integration of satellite technology enables smartphones to connect even in disaster situations where cellular networks are unavailable, enabling communications and potential rescue efforts.

Chinese smartphone giants, including OPPO, Huawei, Xiaomi, Vivo and Honor, are coming together in Guangzhou to cooperate with China Telecom to introduce “direct mobile phone to satellite” technology. It is aimed to provide users with reliable communication channels in difficult situations.

By communicating over China’s BeiDou satellite network, Huawei Mate 50 series devices could only send short text messages and assist you with navigation. However, its successor, the Huawei Mate 60 Pro, managed to introduce satellite calling in a single iteration. It allows you to make and receive calls via satellite. Now we will see what OPPO has prepared for the upcoming Find X7 series.

OPPO’s development of this technology points to a future where smartphones can seamlessly connect to the outside world even when traditional networks are not available.

Even if you don’t use this feature often and don’t appreciate it as much as the usual improvements to design or processing capabilities, it becomes the one feature you’ll want on your smartphone when you need it, and it does. This connectivity feature makes it stand out from the crowd.