Snapdragon 865 to Support NaVIC After Software Update, Confirms Qualcomm

Mar. 2, 2020

What it means in essence is that most devices powered by the Snapdragon 865 should probably support NaVIC at some stage, although, the final decision on whether to enable the feature or not will still rest with the OEM. However, as pointed out by Kalantri, for a device to support the technology, it will still need to have radio frequency (RF) support for L5 band, which is different from the L1 band that receives signals from GPS satellites.

It was only recently that Realme CEO, Madhav Sheth, announced that the company’snewly-launched X50 Prowill havefull support for India’s NaVICsatellite navigation technology that has been developed in-house by ISRO. It isalso expected to be available with a bunch of upcoming Xiaomi phonesgoing forward.

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