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

  • @Rykzon@discuss.tchncs.de
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    52 years ago

    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.

    • @deleted@lemmy.world
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      52 years 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
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        22 years 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
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          12 years ago

          Ooh… I didn’t know such products exists.

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