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Is your phone using Galileo?

Is your phone using GalileoGalileo could improve your phone’s location accuracy up to 100 times. Here’s how to find out if you can use it and what it can do.

Like other systems, Galileo is integrated at the chipset level. So, to benefit from its location services, your phone has to be manufactured with a Galileo-enabled chipset.

Nowadays, companies that account for 95% of the global supply of smartphone chipsets are in contact with the Galileo team. This means a vast majority of the new-generation of phones such as Apple’s iPhone X, Samsung’s S8, Huawei’s Mate 10 and Google’s Pixel 2 are all Galileo-enabled. Read more…