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Vodafone Finds Brits Keep Mobile Phones for 4 Years Instead of 2 (www.ispreview.co.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Pat@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in Canada it's being recommended to disable emergency SOS on both iPhones and Androids because of how many false 911 calls they end up placing, causing first responders to waste time on non-emergencies.

[–] thejoker8814@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Very interesting, do you have any source or references that springs to your mind? I have emergency SOS enabled, but it never happened to me that it has been falsely triggered. And I can’t imagine many scenarios were it would be.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago

I had it enabled for a bit and everything worked fine, but I was worried about accidentally triggering it so disabled it before hearing about the false alarms.

Here's an article from the CBC about it.

[–] narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

These are two separate features.

I doubt many people actually have a use case for satellite SOS though.

[–] QuinceDaPence@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

There's some pretty remote places in the US. So you don't need it 'till you need it.