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Updated: OnMobile Launches Personal Safety Android App “Help Me on Mobile”

Updated below OnMobile has launched a personal safety Android app called Help Me on Mobile. The app is currently available as a free download on Google Play Store and aims to allow users alert their families during medical emergencies, accidents, theft, eve teasing and stalking among others. Registration: We tried it on Nexus 4 and noticed that one needs to sign up for the service by providing requisite information like name and photo along with their family or guardian's mobile numbers to which the emergency SMS or calls will be sent. Users can enter up to five mobile numbers by either adding them from the phone book or manually entering the phone number in the provided text box. These numbers can later be edited by clicking on the Guardian section on the app homescreen. Following the registration, the app provides two different buttons - 'I am Here' and 'I need Help'. Tapping on the 'I am Here' option triggers an SMS to all the listed emergency contacts with the current location information in text and as a Google Maps link, and keeps sending these messages every 10 minutes until the service is turned off. However, we noticed that the app doesn't provide the exact location to these contacts, which we feel can be quite crucial in terms of emergencies. For instance, it indicated my location to be about 1Km from where I am, in the alert messages sent to my emergency contacts. Interestingly, while the app seems to deliver messages via SMS, we noticed…

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