Google may very well be including a function similar to Apple’s Emergency SOS function to the Pixel 9 and the following Pixel Fold. That’s based on leaker Kamila Wojciechowska, who writes for Android Authority that the corporate would companion with T-Cellular to supply the function however might add different suppliers later.
Identical to Apple’s system, Google’s SOS function would reportedly current future Pixel homeowners with a sequence of questions to determine what’s occurring, quite than let customers thumb one out. A video within the Android Authority article options the animation Google will show to customers to assist them get the telephone aligned with a satellite tv for pc.
In line with Wojciechowska, these are a few of the questions the function will ask:
T-Cellular introduced it was teaming up with SpaceX for a satellite tv for pc messaging service effectively over a yr in the past however didn’t specify pricing — and as of January, it was nonetheless in testing. Final yr, a developer noticed some Google Messages code that instructed the function was on its means with Garmin because the supplier. Garmin presents such a service for its InReach 2-way messaging units utilizing the Iridium satellite tv for pc community, which Iridium says can attain “wherever on earth.”
Nonetheless, whether or not it’s supplied by T-Cellular or Garmin, the function wouldn’t essentially be free — as an illustration, Garmin’s prices $15 per 30 days to begin. Then once more, Apple subsidizes its service for now, so possibly Google will, too.
