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

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

  • deleted@lemmy.worldEnglish
    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.deEnglish
      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.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ooh… I didn’t know such products exists.

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