Comment on Family rescued in Maui thanks to iPhone's satellite feature
deleted@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’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 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 year ago
Ooh… I didn’t know such products exists.
I thought consumer satellite communications is purely for expensive phone calls.