With iPhone 14, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite, which lets users contact emergency services in places where there’s no…

  • deleted@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    1 year ago

    It’s not the case people get lost or missing because they don’t have a gps.

    They mostly do have a gps but either they get injured (falling in a well or between rocks) or their car breaks down / get stuck.

    • Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I didn’t mean gps as in navigation, Inreach is a dedicated satellite communicator. I meant I wouldn’t trust an iPhone for emergency communication if I plan to go somewhere extremely remote

      • deleted@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        1 year ago

        Ooh… I didn’t know such products exists.

        I thought consumer satellite communications is purely for expensive phone calls.