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Apple is reportedly working on satellite features for the iPhone, but they probably won’t launch in 2021

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Over the weekend, legendary analyst Ming-Chi Kuo put forth a new research note that aimed to shed some light on upcoming iPhone features. In that note, Kuo said that Apple was working on bringing some satellite features to the iPhone lineup. Specifically, satellite calling, and that the feature would arrive along with the "iPhone 13" lineup this year.

iPhone 13 may support satellite calls (provided Apple doesn’t disable this in software)

According to a revered Apple analyst, the next iPhone tentatively named “iPhone 13” will include a new chip allowing it to support satellite communications. It's unclear, however, if the next iPhone will let you make satellite calls via services like StarLink. For all it's worth, Apple could be simply future-proofing iPhone 13 until software support for satellite calling is in place.

CoolStar updates libhooker Configurator to v1.2 with support for iOS 12 & other improvements

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At the start of the year, CoolStar launched a standalone libhooker Configurator app that could be used to fine-tune the native libhooker tweak injection method on the Odyssey and Taurine jailbreaks.

The libhooker Configurator app has received several updates since its initial release, but a new build launched just this weekend in the form of version 1.2 might be especially intriguing – especially for anyone using the Chimera jailbreak.

Jailbreak tweaks of the week: NetworkList, Tako, & more…

This past week has been spicy for the jailbreak community, especially given the latest updates to the Taurine jailbreak tool for iOS 14.0-14.3 devices and the new versions of support packages that go along with it, such as Jailbreak Updater. Given just how much happened this past week, we wanted to circle back and provide it all to our readers in one convenient and easy-to-digest piece.

‘iPhone 13’ name leaks out on alleged packaging of the upcoming device

Over the course of many years, one thing that seemed pretty easy to speculate was the name of the next iPhone. Even when Apple was using the "S" brand for its smartphone lineup. Things got a bit interesting when Apple went with "iPhone X" and then "iPhone XS" to then go with "iPhone 11" and opt for "iPhone 12" immediately after that. And apparently a lot of people out there think Apple should go with "iPhone 12S" this year, rather than "iPhone 13."