SOS 'panic app' in Apple Watch marks new direction
"I've fallen and I can't get up!" was the memorable catchphrase used to advertise a wireless medical alert for seniors that was first used in 1989 by LifeCall and later by Life Alert.
Today, anybody in the U.S. with a cell phone can call -- and usually even text -- 911 when in need of help, either in a medical emergency or when in danger.
Apple took the idea of a quick wireless call for help one step further on Monday when the company announced the SOS feature for Apple Watches, coming this fall in the new watchOS 3.
SOS will quickly let a user call for help by pressing and holding the side button on an Apple Watch running watchOS 3 "no matter where they are in the world," according to Apple publicity.
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