We always thought camera phones were completely unnecessary. Yeah, we read an article or two about how they were actually useful, and not in that “hey, look what we just did” kind of way. We never thought, though, that it would one day save someone’s life. In Australia yesterday, three hikers were saved because of their camera phone. They were lost in a Victorian national park, and the pictures they took were “instrumental in rescuers finding the trio.”
Apparently, search teams were looking in the wrong area, and were correctly directed with the cell phone features. Without this, authorities say that it could have taken days to find them. Instead, they were found in just half of one.
We have to ask, though: What about GPS? Clearly, the man did not have it installed on his phone. This is exactly why, though, we’re starting to see mandatory GPS installations on phones. Yeah, there’s a level of concern about spying, but in the end, it can save your life. And we’re not saying that that to sound overly dramatic.
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