Now a brand new technology update is needed to the smart phone makers to help protect women. Every cell phone sold in India from the coming year onwards will have to characteristic “a panic button” constituted to the numbers 5 or 9 on the keypad of ordinary phones. The panic button will be prompted if you press and hold one of those two numbers. It’s not clear which government or police agency will obtain the alert yet.
To assemble the new requisites, every phone maker including giants like Apple and Samsung will have to write software for India that contains the panic button arrangement. Apple is known to assist with governments for country-precise characteristics. For example, it has eradicated its FaceTime app (for audio and video chats) from its products sold in the UAE.
While Apple can add the panic button requisites via a reasonably easy software update, the condition is much more difficult in the Android camp because of the humongous number of companies that make Android phones and use Google’s operating application.
Another area of worry is whether this could holdup the launch of certain phones in India. Many smart phones are launched in the US or China before they enter in India. Adding a extra panic button to Indian options of the phone – even if it’s done via software application- could boost the time these companies take to commence their handsets in India.
