Next-gen iPhone comes up with digital compass?




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The next-gen iPhone will have an integrated magnetometer (digital compass), allowing the iPhone to recognize which direction users were facing, work in tandem with the smartphone’s GPS and turn-by-turn directions.

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The screenshots show that

there’s also a “Kitchen Sink” menu, which is presumably the place for all of the other “not for public consumption” options that are required in these testing stages but not when the device is actually launched.

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[BGR via SlashGear]

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One Response to “Next-gen iPhone comes up with digital compass?”

  1. adam says:

    could be, i call bullsh*t tho on the kitchen sink, they wouldn’t call it that, the compass seems like a worthy adversary


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