Currently this function is pretty useless. But we will see more of those story`s where people will survice using their iphone. For my it is still no replacement, because it is just for emergency and not usable anywhere.
It has to be usable, currently you had to have an open sky, had to hold your phone a special way, direct them to specially to the sky. Probably you cant do that after an accident.
And it would be stupid to pass away on a remote track in Iceland just because the service has not yet been activated yet.
But in some years, it will make those two way satellite messengers and satphones obsolete. Because of technical progress it will be possible to provide that (full) service too in your smarphone / smartwatch.
With a two way satellite messenger you can write messenges too with your familliy, can update your blog, can provide livetracking, write and receive short messenges.
Surfy
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