Apple unveils satellite-based Emergency SOS, free for two years in the US and Canada with iPhone 14 models, providing low bandwidth messaging services (Allison Johnson/The Verge)

Victoria Song / The Verge:
Hands-on with Apple’s Emergency SOS via Satellite, rolling out now: the feature works well, texting via satellite takes a while, and users should try the demo  —  You don’t have to hold your arm up to get a signal, though there is a lot of turning around and waiting when trying to connect to satellites.

Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple plans to expand Emergency SOS via Satellite to France, Germany, Ireland, and the UK in December, after launching the service in the US and Canada  —  Get weekly top MacRumors stories in your inbox.

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple plans to launch Emergency SOS with Satellite in November and invest $450M in US companies to support the infrastructure, with most going to Globalstar  —  – Apple said Thursday that it will spend $450 million with U.S. companies including Globalstar to enable its new emergency satellite texting feature.

Reuters:
Apple partners with satellite company Globalstar on Emergency SOS, agreeing to pay 95% of the approved capital expenditure to deploy new Globalstar satellites  —  Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Wednesday selected Globalstar Inc (GSAT.A) as its partner for a feature that would allow iPhone 14 users …

Allison Johnson / The Verge:
iPhone 14 Plus review: multiday battery, big bright screen, and light, but hard to use one-handed, no ProMotion, and adopting eSIM will be painful for some  —  Excellent battery life and a large display make the 14 Plus upgrade-worthy … This is the new iPhone that most people want.

Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed News:
Apple’s video montages for the new Watch and iPhone 14 safety features, like satellite emergency calling and car crash detection, are ominous and unsettling  —  The newly unveiled Watch and iPhone 14 features — car crash detection, satellite emergency calling, extreme weather — all seem a little ominous.