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Samsung Galaxy S25 Approved by FCC with Satellite Connectivity

Nov 26, 2024, 3:11 PM by Rich Brome @richbrome
updated Dec 2, 2024, 10:35 AM

The FCC has approved a new Samsung phone that is almost certainly next year's Galaxy S25 flagship model. While the public approval documents contain little interesting detail and few surprises, they do confirm that the phone will include specific support for satellite service in the upper L-band (band 255). Verizon all but announced this capability when they recently announced that their own new satellite service would support "upcoming Galaxy devices" from Samsung. Apple and Google already offer phones with this feature, known in the industry as NTN (Non-Terrestrial Networks). The FCC approval also confirms mmWave 5G, Bluetooth 5.4, Wi-Fi 6E, NFC, and wireless charging. The approvals for the S25+ and S25 Ultra include UWB, but the one for standard model does not seem to. Not mentioned is Thread support. The model approved today is the "SM-S931U"; last year's S24 for the US was the SM-S921U and the S23 was the SM-S911U.

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PhoneMaster

Nov 29, 2024, 3:44 PM

Plus and Ultra approved

I haven’t looked for the docs myself but I’ve seen screenshots of them and read from several online sources that the plus and ultra variants have been approved and are in the database.

The main differences are that the plus and ultra have faster wireless charging and UWB.

The fact that the base model lacks UWB is quite disappointing given that it appears all variants use the same basic radio hardware.

Rich Brome

Indeed. Thanks! It's been updated.

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