• bdonvr@thelemmy.club
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    6 months ago

    Android can do satellite messaging? Android phone makers are shipping on device LLMs?

    I’m not an Apple fanboy nor do I use an iPhone currently but this headline is ridiculous.

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      6 months ago

      Satellite messaging is already available in Android 15 beta, and the LLM in the device will only be for iPhone 15 Pro and above, so most iPhone users will not be able to use it.

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        6 months ago

        Satellite messaging is already available in Android 15 beta

        Perhaps in software, but I don’t think there is a current phone that has the hardware to take advantage. For now, this is essentially an Apple only feature. It’s a pretty good bet we are going to see some flagships released with it in the next year though.

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          I know that Pixel 7’s and above support it. There are Reddit posts showing they have the feature already. Satellite messaging is just using standard 4G/LTE from Starlink. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is only an OS update away for most newer phones.

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            6 months ago

            And? How many android devices can you name that actually support satellite messaging today? When the feature DOES come on the android side, I imagine it is going to probably be flagship devices as well. Seems to be a silly thing to call Apple out for.

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      6 months ago

      Android phone makers are shipping on device LLMs?

      Do people actually want these?

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        Yes, in fact that is the only kind of ai i would ever use and entrust my data to. Not the apple one, but an open source model that is running only on my device and answering only to me; using the data I provide only for my interests? That one I would use.

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          I bet these LLM models wont be 100% locally hosted. I imagine some form of data will be piped back to a cloud server

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              Is that why there are so many celebrity iCloud leaks floating around the internet?

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                It wasn’t a software issue, but a human issue. People got scammed and gave their logins away.

                This system is built so that nobody can access it and they’ve went to extreme lengths to make it so. It’s also available for auditing, it hardware and software.

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                6 months ago

                “It’s a very thoughtful design. Indeed, if you gave an excellent team a huge pile of money and told them to build the best “private” cloud in the world, it would probably look like this.”

                • Matthew D Green, cryptography teacher at Josh Hopkins

                You can go argue with him if you disagree.

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        6 months ago

        LLM is AI correct? If my phone is going to do AI at all, I prefer it be done on device for sure. For privacy reasons if nothing else. But it’s not anything I’ve really looked into. I have the S24 and the only AI feature I use is the Circle to search… which I don’t consider to be AI.

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          LLM is a form of AI, specifically the text AIs like ChatGPT that have suddenly made “AI” a dinner table term. AI in some form or another is almost definitely being used in your device - even for things like filling in gaps in low-quality voice calls, and probably has been for a while. But the problem is that unlike those “old” AIs, LLMs require some significant power to run, so running them on phones will probably require meaningful trade-offs. But the increased security is also a meaningful benefit.

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          They add a kinda nifty “copy subject” option that is supposedly local AI stuff to the samsung gallery, fun to mess with