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Family rescued in Maui thanks to iPhone's satellite feature (9to5mac.com)

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

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[-] Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 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 1 points 1 year ago

Ooh.. I didn’t know such products exists.

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

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