Apple’s iPhone is not only good for SMSing, photos, emails and gaming…it can also save a man’s life!

A 42-year-old man from Maryland got lost, with his dog, while hiking in Gambrill State Park.
After crossing the same creek four times, the man realized him and his dog were lost and called the police. The sheriff sent out a helicopter on a rescue mission.

Although the hiker tried to use his iPhone’s built-in GPS to get him back to safety, the Maps app kept saying that he was in an incorrect location.
What saved the lost hiker and his dog was actually the iPhone’s flashlight: after four hours, when the helicopter flew over the man who couldn’t otherwise be seeing from the air, the man turned on his iPhone’s flashlight and the chopper’s pilot spotted them.

“It’s really scary,” his wife, Aysem Tkacik, told Fox. “You have no idea what kind of ending it’s going to have.”

“He gave me Steve Jobs biography for Christmas,” she added. “And I started reading it. Steve Jobs with the iPhone–oh my gosh–technology’s good.”

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