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Satellite messaging planned for new and old Google Pixel phones
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(Image credit: Google)
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A feature was found on a Google Pixel phone that suggests satellite messaging is coming to the handset family.
One of the most impressive features that mostiPhoneusers will hope to never have to resort to, satellite messaging, is coming toAndroid phones.
The Satellite SOS menu was there to interact with, although none of its buttons or features actually worked as yet.
That sounds strikingly similar toApple’s own satellite feature – for use as a final resort if you’re stranded or in trouble somewhere that doesn’t have great mobile network coverage. GivingAndroidusers a similar feature feels like a no-brainer for Google.
There were also apparently buttons in that menu to let you try the feature out to see how it works, but they too weren’t working.
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A link to aGarminSearch and Rescue Insurance plan in one of the descriptions, meanwhile, suggests that Google will be teaming up with Garmin in some capacity on this feature – which makes sense since Garmin has great satellite connectivity already thanks to its wide range of rugged and navigational devices.
Whether the feature will arrive as a software update, or is in fact just in the works for future Pixel devices and still a way off being released is hard to say at this point. Hopefully, though, we won’t have to wait too much longer to learn more from the horse’s mouth.
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