Would Phones Work in Space?
Firstly, Let's Get the Obvious out of the Way: No, a Smartphone Can't Make or Receive Calls in Space, as It's Reliant on Ground-Based Antennas. Would a Phone...
Firstly, let's get the obvious out of the way: no, a smartphone can't make or receive calls in space, as it's reliant on ground-based antennas.
Would a phone work on the moon?
You would either need a very powerful amplifier/transmitter attached to the phone or have the phone relay through one of the satellites orbiting the Moon to forward the call to Earth, but you would need help from NASA to get a phone capable of communicating through their network.
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Would an iPhone work on the moon?
The latest iPhone's processor is estimated to run at about 2490 MHz. Apple do not advertise the processing speed, but others have calculated it. This means that the iPhone in your pocket has over 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.
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