Karbonn Tuesday stated it’s going to roll out an SOS app for women on its handsets inside the nextmonths, plenty in advance of the authorities‘s mandate of putting in a panic button on telephones from January 1.
“The directive is a step toward harnessing the full potential of cell devices which could be a mightydevice in ensuring girls‘s safety,” Karbonn Mobiles stated in a declaration.
The firm introduced it’s been running on growing a cell SOS app for girls which would be rolled out overthe next two months.
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“This protection app would allow customers to send alert messages to emergency contacts with aunmarried tap on domestic display screen; proportion their area to choose contacts at a predefined time or distance mechanically permitting their emergency contacts to maintain tab on the customers place inactual time,” it stated.
The characteristic can even allow customers to elevate and send alarms discreetly by using absolutelyshaking the tool without unlocking the display screen as well as ship alerts via pressing down theenergy button for a positive duration.
The government has made putting in a panic button on cellular phones mandatory from January 1, 2017. An in-built GPS navigation device would be mandatory for all telephones a yr later with effect from January 1, 2018.
Handset enterprise frame Indian cell association (ICA) also welcomed the notification.
“all of us remember that cell handsets are all pervasive and an appropriate statistics era device for thetremendous Indian population. It become extremely critical that we provide you with a very simplesolution each for characteristic phones and clever telephones, so easy that everybody can recognizeit,” ICA national President Pankaj Mohindroo said.
On implementation of satellite tv for pc–primarily based GPS on cell handsets, ICA said the identical“wishes to be relooked at and ICA is asking for DOT to have a relook”.
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