Mobile manufacturers say it is possible to implement Panic button feature by next year
Hailing the Indian government’s decision to include a panic button for the safety of women and satellite-based GPS in all mobile handsets from next year, the country’s leading smartphone manufacturers on Tuesday said it is feasible to roll out these features within the proposed timeline. “I think it is possible for manufacturers to have a panic button for new phones that are going to be launched in the next year,” Jain told IANS. Prasad said on Monday that he had “taken a decision that from January 1, 2017, no cell phone can be sold without a provision for panic button, and from January 1, 2018, mobile sets should also have Global Positioning System inbuilt”. An official notification added: “With effect from January 1, 2018, no mobile phone handset manufacturing company shall sell the new mobile phone handset in India without the facility of identifying the location through satellite-based GPS.” According to Jain, installing the GPS system will definitely lead to certain cost hike which will depend from manufacturer to manufacturer.
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