With iPhone 14, Apple introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite, which lets users contact emergency services in places where there’s no…
Why does this feel like an ad
9to5 Mac is by virtue of the name very celebratory of Apple things.
Focus more on the tech saving people’s lives.
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Tech like this helps people in more subtle ways, too.
I bought an Apple Watch to monitor my heart rate because a symptom of something I was diagnosed with was it could cause it to speed up. When my doctor decided to take me off the meds that kept it lowered, it was only thanks to the data from my watch that she put me back on it - she didn’t believe me when I said my heart rate felt like it had started going too fast and I was running out of breath too easily after she took me off them (she pointed to blood test numbers as “proof” I didn’t need them anymore), then I pulled out my phone and pulled up the app that collated the data from my watch, and showed her the giant spike in numbers after she took me off the meds.
Then she went, “…ah,” and put me back on the heart meds. She wouldn’t have otherwise.
Hyperthyroidism? Just guessing.
Yup. Graves’ Disease.
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It’s a genuinely good feature, we’re going to continue seeing positive stories like this as more people use it in life threatening situations.
It’s made me think about situations I might end up in that would benefit from this extra layer of safety where previously I’ve just YOLO’d and not gotten unlucky.
It is an ad.
Because it is. Apple does this shit all time and it’s enfuriating. Especially considering Android offers exactly the same feature so there’s no “thanking” a brand when both major platforms do this. People just lap it up though.
Which Android phones have satellite access? I saw Qualcomm came out with hardware in the beginning of the year that can also sms over satellite but haven’t seen an Android phone with it yet.
Which android phone has the same feature?
his brother’s girlfriend’s cousin
Stories that start this way are always super credible.
I really was hoping that we won’t see these stupid ads here and they’re left on Reddit.
“emergency service personnels rescue people thanks to Radio” you will never see headlines like this
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/hailcorporate
When Android does the same thing but the article calls out Apple specifically. It was a thing constantly on Reddit, but why wouldn’t we expect it here too? Fanboys of Apple are happy to peddle their wares everywhere.
What Android phone does this yet? Qualcomm announced they’d be releasing chipsets in Q2 of this year that can do it, but what phones have it?
I’m interested in the arguments when usb c drops for iphones.
I’d upgrade my iPhone just for this feature. Unfortunately, it’s not available yet where I live.
In my country, we have people missing in dessert on daily basis. Thankfully, many are found by volunteers with the help of last known location or by if sharing their trip plan before leaving.
This feature would save their lives.
The other option is to buy satellite phone which cost $300/mo just to keep it for emergencies.
Or you know, just get a dedicated gps device like Inreach for a a few hundred $ one time + gps plan as you need. I wouldn’t rely on my iPhone for truly expedition like situations you actually plan for.
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.
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
Ooh… I didn’t know such products exists.
I thought consumer satellite communications is purely for expensive phone calls.
The other option is to buy satellite phone which cost $300/mo just to keep it for emergencies.
No it’s not, there are other, much more affordable options, such as https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/837461/pn/010-06003-SU
I didn’t know such products existed. I don’t even think they’re available in the middle east.
The prices of satellite phone have came down lately to $1000 for the device and $60 per month for the service and call cost range between $5.5 to $8 a minute.
It’s operated by asia satellite co.
The spying feature xd
It’s not spying… actually it’s to send your location one time upon your request. And you need to manually aim your phone.
Id not be surprised if one time location send would take 3-5% of the battery as it’ll take 15-60 seconds to transmit you location.
The satellite is 1400km away so not your average 3km cellular tower.
I mean, the connection to the satellite is already barely powerful to send a few bytes of text.
But still bytes that you are there
Bruh, you could more easily spy with the cellular connection.
But with spots without? For those that could be the use case…Nit even to track you down to the meter but know the facinity you are in
Duh, that’s what the damn location service is for, if you don’t want to be tracked don’t use a damn phone in the first place.
As a 911 operator, I hate the SOS function and it has just gotten worse. Between this and the “car crash” detection, I spend 40% of my work day tracking down false alarms, often at the expense of using resources for actual emergencies. If I ever meet the person who decided to turn on the SOS function by default, I’m going to punch them squarely in the nose.
Why can’t I see the 21 comments that are suppose to be in here?
Are you using an app? I can see all 22 from my Lemmy.world account.
Nope, on my lemmy.world account via the web. Posting that comment spun forever until I refreshed the page, and then my post was the only one visible. And now my lemmy inbox wouldn’t load the first 5 times I tried. :(
I’m having the same problem…
Your reply I can see. Nothing else besides my own.
Yeah, now it says there’s 45 comments but I can only see 3
Don’t post positive content about Apple on a general technology community because it must be an ad then. The rule is only to post negative news if it’s in anyway related to Apple. Only then it’s factual.
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One iphone shall cometh to save us all
Anyone in the know here? How the heck does a non-sat phone contact a sattelite?
It’s a sat phone, just a somewhat limited one.
