Does your mobile phone have Beidou satellite positioning function and how to use it?

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A good news, the Apple iPhone 12 series will fully support the Beidou satellite navigation system (the previous Apple mobile phones do not support the Beidou satellite navigation system). On the one hand, it shows that my country's Beidou satellite navigation system has been recognized by high-tech companies in the United States, especially Apple, which requires perfect performance parameters; on the other hand, it shows that my country’s independent research and development of Beidou satellite navigation system has achieved great success, not just a single unit. Now the military and civilian fields also have high application value. More and more mobile phones support the Beidou satellite navigation system. Does your model support it? There is a misunderstanding in

that needs to be corrected, and that is the problem of continuing to use habits. The GPS navigation system in the United States was launched earlier. Even though many mobile phones have already supported the Beidou satellite navigation system, they still use GPS in the name of navigation! If you want to check whether your mobile phone supports the Beidou satellite navigation system, there are two ways:

, one of which is to query through mobile phone parameters. This information can be found in the mobile phone's official website or in the mobile phone manual. We take the just released Huawei Mate40 series as an example. You can check it in the transmission function and positioning function column. As long as the word Beidou appears in the function column, it means that your mobile phone supports the Beidou satellite navigation system (Huawei Mate40 series supports B1l+B1C +B2a+b2b four-band navigation).

Second, users who use Android phones can use the AndroiTS GPS Test software to test and open this software in an open area (in order to get a better test effect, I tested it on my balcony at the time), if you can find The five-star red flag icon indicates that your phone supports the Beidou satellite navigation system (the software finds more flag icons of other countries, indicating that your phone supports more navigation systems). Apple's mobile phone uses the iPhone 12 as a watershed. All previous mobile phones did not support the Beidou satellite navigation system. After that, all mobile phones will support the Beidou satellite navigation system.

The navigation system supported by each smartphone is not unique. How can we use the Beidou satellite navigation system for positioning? Civilian equipment is different from military equipment. Safety is not the first priority, but functionality is the first choice. The mobile phone SoC chipset will call the best navigation system to serve us according to the current actual situation. This calling process is also dynamic, not one layer unchanged (the Beidou satellite navigation system cannot be specified). In other words, you have already used the Beidou satellite navigation system when you use the navigation software, but you don't know it!

Speaking of the Beidou satellite navigation software, many current navigation software named after Beidou are just for hot spots, not the navigation software officially developed by Beidou satellite navigation. In essence, there is no difference between Gaode and Baidu maps, even because In terms of strength, the navigation effect is not as good as AutoNavi and Baidu maps. Part of the navigation software needs to be charged to be able to use it. This has nothing to do with the Beidou satellite navigation official. It is caused by the navigation software itself.