구글 픽셀 9: 혁신적인 위성 SOS 긴급 기능

### Google Pixel 9, 긴급 연결의 판도를 바꾸는 위성 SOS 도입
* 📱 Google Pixel 9에는 사용자가 모바일 네트워크 및 Wi-Fi 범위를 벗어났을 때 **긴급 서비스에 연락할 수 있는 새로운 위성 SOS 서비스**가 탑재되어 있습니다.
* 🛰 이를 시연하기 위해 차폐 상자를 사용하여 무선 신호를 제거하여 **911에 전화를 걸 때만 위성에 연결**할 수 있도록 했습니다.
* 👩 제품 관리자인 Stephanie Scott과 Aisha Sharie는 **위성에 연결하고 화면 설문조사를 통해 긴급 정보를 전달하는 두 가지 간단한 단계**로 이루어진다고 설명합니다.
* 🚨 데모 중에 휴대폰이 위성에 성공적으로 연결되어 **사용자에게 응급 상황에 대한 설문지를 작성하라는 메시지**가 표시되어 비상 연락처에 알릴 수도 있었습니다.
* 🌍 Garmin Response는 위성을 통해 전송된 SOS 메시지를 수신하여 응급 상황을 분류하고 현지 서비스에 연락할 수 있도록 **24시간 지원하는 서비스**입니다.
* 🔧 위성 SOS 기능은 현재 위성 연결이 가능한 고유 하드웨어와 모뎀을 사용하는 **Pixel 9 시리즈 전용 기능**으로, **처음 2년 동안 무료**로 제공됩니다.
* 🚀 Apple과 T-Mobile을 비롯한 다른 기술 기업들도 유사한 **위성 응급 서비스**를 개발하고 있어 스마트폰 안전 기능에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있는 추세입니다.
* 💬 저자는 시청자들이 댓글을 통해 **위성 안전 기능에 대한 생각**과 **비상 연결에 대한 경험**을 공유할 것을 권장합니다.

Pixel 9의 위성 SOS 서비스는 셀룰러 커버리지 없이도 긴급 통신이 가능하여 외딴 지역에서도 사용자의 안전을 강화합니다.

hi I'm here at Google, and I'm here to test out the Pixel 9's new satellite SOS service. This strange device here is going to help me. It's not a panini press; it's actually a shielded box to kill all the radio signals. So, in order to get it to work, I have to close this in order for it to dial a satellite. Before we get back to my demo of satellite SOS, let's look at what it is and why it's significant. Satellite SOS lets Pixel 9 owners contact emergency services when they're out of range of mobile networks and Wi-Fi. And to help me understand more about it, I talked with Stephanie Scott and Isa Sharie from Google's Pixel phone team. I'm Aisha Sharie; I'm a product manager of Pixel software. I'm Stephanie; I'm a product manager on the hardware team at Google, and I make Pixel phones. Satellite SOS is part of our suite of safety features. We're excited to introduce this one with our Pixel 9 phone. It allows you

to connect with Emergency Services, even if you're in a place without service, there's really two simple steps. The first is connection, and so you want to be able to first connect to that satellite. It's super easy. If you're out of range, you dial 911, and you're going to be prompted right on the screen to connect and make this satellite connection. The second step is communicating the information that you might be wanting to communicate during an emergency, and so it'll actually prompt you through an onscreen survey to describe a little bit about what's going on so it can send that information in your location back up to the satellite. And then, depending on um what's going on, you may have a few back-and-forth messages with emergency services. So, with those basics out of the way, let's go back to my satellite SOS demo. Obviously, in real life, people aren't going to have their phone in the box connected to a PC. We're doing this so we don't accidentally call 911 with the phone inside this box. Here, I can't get to it. I

can't see the screen, so we have this cable coming out connected to a PC that lets me see the screen here. And if we look on the top right, I don't have any cellular signal. In fact, my icon has been replaced with an icon of a satellite, meaning I can connect to that. But in order to actually connect to the satellite, I have to trigger it by calling 911. Let's give it a call, see what happens. Pixel phone is trying to call 911. It's trying to reach it, um, and when it fails, it will give me the option to connect to a satellite. So if you look at the bottom of the dialer, we see there's a new button. It says satellite SOS. I tap that, and now I'm able to actually connect to the satellite. So we're going to take the phone out of the box since we know we're not actually going to call Emergency Services. I now have a question. I'm going to fill out this will be sent to Emergency Services. It wants to know if I have an illness or

injury vehicle or vessel. Uh, if I'm lost, missing, or trapped, if there's a crime going, fire, or something else, let's tap fire. It says, Is anyone injured or in immediate danger? I'm going to say no. What's going on? Is it a forest brush or grass building? I'm going to say a building fire. And now I have the option to not only send this questionnaire that I filled out to emergency responders, but also to my emergency contacts so they know what's going on. I'm going to hit notify, and now here comes the fun part. I have to connect to the satellite. Uh, I'm have some buildings behind me and trees, so I'm going to move the phone. So, a few things you might be hearing, some Chimes. Uh, that's it prompting me to move it because I'm slightly near building. I'm going to get away from this and get a better Vantage, tilt down to Center, keeping phone. Now I have green. It means I'm connected to a satellite, a satellite that's flying by at tens of thousands of

miles an hour is now connected to my phone. A popup window shows my connectivity to the satellite, so if I need to reposition it, I can move my hand back and forth. I also have a thread going on with the responders called Garmin response. Since this is not an actual emergency, I'm going to let them know that. Please don't respond. So it's now being sent from my phone to the satellite, and I should hear back a moment here. It was sent. There we go. Going through the demo was really enlightening. I'm impressed with how straightforward it all is. And what's great is if you're a Pixel 9 owner, you don't need to know anything about this feature to use it because it all gets triggered by attempting a 911 call. The moment you try to dial 911 when you're in a place without service, we already get that prompt. So we try to make it super easy and accessible for users to find this in those times where you need it most. I know we're already starting to get

inbound stories from users that have been able to use the feature successfully, which is really awesome because we're trying to build that in to help people. For myself, I actually enjoy knowing that it's there when I'm doing things like going hiking, especially in coastal areas where you don't always have great reception. Having that extra layer of security or backup for yourself is really nice. During my demo, you may have noticed the name Garmin response pop up. I asked Stephanie about this. Garmin response is the one that's on the receiving end for the Emergency SOS message that gets sent over satellite. They have 24-hour answering services that really help triage through the problems and contact emergency services. Garmin response isn't the only partner Google had for the service. Satellite SOS uses satellite service provider Skylo to place these emergency calls. Now, currently, satellite SOS is limited to the Pixel 9, 9 Pro, 9 Pro XL, and 9 Pro Fold. And it turns out there's

some unique hardware in the phones that makes all this work. So, the hardware is definitely enabled to provide this. So, we definitely, the modem is capable of helping provide this, as well as having specific bands, cellular bands, to support this Google satellite SOS service. It's free for the first two years, but the company didn't share how much it would cost after two years, nor if it would be more broadly available to other Android phones if they have the included hardware needed for satellite connectivity. As a tech journalist, it's wonderful to see safety features like satellite connectivity come to Pixel phones and beyond Google. There's Apple, who offers a similar service for the iPhone, and carriers are now starting to get into the satellite game too. T-Mobile, which is working with SpaceX on their own version of satellite connectivity for emergency notifications, temporarily turned on its service prior to Hurricane Milton. These are still the early days for smartphone satellite connectivity, but the feature is already helping people, and it will likely only get more robust over time. But now I want

to hear from you. Do you look for safety features like satellite SOS when buying a phone? Have you ever used it or Apple's version to contact emergency services? Let me know in the comments. Lastly, if you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up, and thank you for watching.

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Pixel 9의 새로운 위성 SOS 서비스를 사용하면 모바일 네트워크 및 Wi-Fi 범위를 벗어났을 때 긴급 서비스에 연락할 수 있습니다.

911에 전화하여 위성에 연결한 다음 화면의 설문조사를 통해 긴급 정보를 전달하는 두 가지 간단한 단계로 이루어집니다.

이 서비스는 신호가 잡히지 않는 외딴 지역에서도 긴급 상황 시 생명줄을 제공하는 것을 목표로 합니다.

휴대폰에 셀룰러 신호가 없고 위성 아이콘을 사용하여 연결 중입니다.

911에 전화하면 위성 연결 옵션이 트리거됩니다.

긴급 서비스를 위한 설문지를 작성한 후 더 나은 위성 연결을 위해 휴대폰을 이동하라는 메시지가 표시되고, 결국 연결에 성공했음을 나타내는 녹색 신호가 표시됩니다.

Google의 Pixel 9 시리즈용 위성 SOS 기능은 서비스가 제공되지 않을 때 위성에 연결하여 긴급 지원을 제공합니다.

이 기능은 911에 전화를 걸면 트리거되며 사용자가 간단하고 쉽게 이용할 수 있도록 설계되었습니다.

이 서비스를 통해 24시간 지원을 제공하고 긴급 전화를 걸 수 있는 파트너는 Garmin Response와 Skylo입니다.

스마트폰 위성 연결에서 하드웨어의 역할

이제 스마트폰에는 지원 모뎀과 특정 셀룰러 대역을 포함한 고유한 하드웨어가 장착되어 있어 Google의 위성 SOS 서비스를 지원할 수 있습니다.

이 서비스는 처음 2년 동안은 무료로 제공되며, 향후 비용이나 다른 Android 휴대폰으로 확대될지에 대한 정보는 아직 알려지지 않았습니다.

Apple 및 T-Mobile과 같은 다른 회사들도 긴급 알림을 위해 위성 연결 분야에 진출하고 있어 스마트폰 사용자들에게 이 기능은 점점 더 중요해지고 있습니다.