Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Google Announces Emergency Location Service for Android on – Tablets Magazine

Google’s Emergency Location Service announced for Android. This service can send the location to emergency services when needed. For example if you call 112, they can immediately see where you are at that time

Google has announced that Android comes with a service that can potentially save your life. Emergency Location Service. This service is in Google Play Services and works from Android 2.3, so the majority of Android devices so access to the feature. Unlike phones at home, mobile phones (where phablets covered) no accurate location information sent to the emergency, and made more than half of the calls from a smartphone.

As you can of course separate app for downloading, but let Google know that people with Android that does not have to do more. It is true that the network where you are at that moment, to support the feature. Some well-known, global networks, add all happy to join (such as Vodafone and Tele2). Emergency Location Service uses Wi-Fi, GPS and cell towers to determine a precise location. This information is not shared with Google and is purely for the emergency services.

Currently the service is only in the United Kingdom and Estonia supported.

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