satellite navigation
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Google’s Code Points to Apple SOS-Like Features Coming to Android
Android is lagging hard behind iOS for emergency satellite connectivity, and Google may be reaching out to Garmin to enable some kind of emergency SOS feature. Late on Sunday, developer Neïl Rahmouni (first spotted by The Verge) shared some interesting code snippets that point to Google getting its own brand of emergency SOS services ala…
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Garmin’s Fēnix 5 Squeezes Satellite Navigation Into A Slim Fitness-Tracking Smartwatch
At CES 2015, Garmin revealed the epix: The company’s first wearable that included the same satellite navigation capabilities as its handheld units. As smartwatches go, the epix was one of the largest and bulkiest wearables you could strap to your wrist, but two years later, Garmin has finally packed similar functionality into its Fēnix smartwatch.