Mobile phone makers react to Government's Panic Button, say it will push up the prices for basic phones
New Delhi: 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. "Karbonn Mobiles has already been working on developing a mobile SOS app for women which we would be unrolling for Karbonn customers over the next few months," the smartphone maker said. 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."
Mobile manufacturers say it is possible to implement Panic button feature by next year
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