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Qualcomm is scrapping plans to offer a satellite SOS feature for Android phones that would have rivaled the one offered by Apple on its latest iPhones. The feature, Snapdragon Satellite, was announced in partnership with the satellite communications company Iridium in January. Now, just 10 months later, the plan is already dead.
Iridium said on Thursday that Qualcomm “elected to terminate” their partnership on the feature because no smartphone maker sig...
