Android introduced a hidden feature that could literally save … – La Voz del Interior

Unlike most of the modifications made in operating systems and applications, the function began deploying these days in Android not imitate improve comfort or fix errors in previous versions but goes a step further. could literally save lives

from now, in the UK and in Estonia by dialing 999 (emergency services) on a device with Android, automatically be sent those emergency services all that the device “knows” the location of which is at the time of the call. And “everything” is all that is actually available from the apps mobile, wi-fi, GPS and telephony antenna covering the area.

The information, according ensure on the official blog that the announcement was made, it will never be “seen” or used by Google (responsible for Android), but will go directly to the emergency services to determine what course to follow. The idea is to earn minutes that can be valuable when trying to pinpoint the geographic location of the emergency.

For now, any phone with Android from 2.3 onwards in these two European countries have the possibility, but the idea is to work in all the world, and in every country with the corresponding number. The hard part is that Google needs collaboration of emergency services in each country.

The statement also a statistic of the Federal Communications Commission of the United States cited, in which it is suggested that “an improvement in accuracy in the location that results in a decrease of one minute response time to a 911 call can mean saving 10,000 lives a year.”