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AMBER Alerts and Android: What you need to know

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Posted by Andrew Martonik on 19 May 2017 5:55 pm
Android emergency broadcast alerts
Emergency alerts on your Android smartphone are a good thing — even if they are a bit annoying sometimes! Every so often — or frequently, depending on your tolerance level — you get an emergency alert on your phone. That horrible blaring of the emergency tone, the buzzing the vibration motor, and then the grim news. Someone's missing. Or there's a severe weather alert headed your way. Suddenly...

Here's another reason you should use Google Now

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Posted by Phil Nickinson on 30 Apr 2014 10:23 am
Google Now emergency alerts
If your phone doesn't support Wireless Emergency Alerts, Google Now can still warn you We all tend to loathe those emergency alerts that pop up on our phones from time to time — AMBER Alerts, weather alerts ... you know the drill. That is, we loathe them until we miss them. See, not every smartphone supports Wireless Emergency Alerts still. We'll save why for another time. Overnight I went...