New features iPhone 5x

[wrcooke]

Hi,
Has anyone heard of temperature and barometric sensors in a upcoming release of the iPhone 5x? This would be a fabulous feature.

 

[Deasnutz]

Hi,
Has anyone heard of temperature and barometric sensors in a upcoming release of the iPhone 5x? This would be a fabulous feature.

Why?

 

[-iKris-]

Why?

Perhaps he wants to measure air pressure/temperature.

 

[Lucille Carter]

Kinda hard to do temp as phone can heat up.

 

[inselstudent]

Kinda hard to do temp as phone can heat up.

Shouldn't be that hard to come up with a way to avoid measuring the phone's innards' tempererature.

 

[Lucille Carter]

Shouldn't be that hard to come up with a way to avoid measuring the phone's innards' tempererature.

I guess the sensor could be hung from a 3" wire! No one would notice, maybe make it longer and use it as a handstrap!

 

[inselstudent]

I guess the sensor could be hung from a 3" wire! No one would notice, maybe make it longer and use it as a handstrap!

brilliant idea, have you considered applying for a post with Apple?

 

[boshii]

Not enough space in the phone to add unneeded sensors.

 

[cynics]

Barometer is nice for faster lock and more accurate GPS. There are quite a few phones from the competition that have this.

Overall the GPS is pretty good in an iPhone anyway so I doubt we'll see that. The iPhone already has a temp sensor but its for the CPU and obviously isn't going to tell you anything useful. We won't see one for external measurements.

 

[wrcooke]

Not to suggest anything but samsung has weather and barometric pressure sensors in their phone and it works great. I think this would be a super feature. I do not use a data package so to get local temperature like this would be cool. As far as I can see from a web search all phones do heat up when heavily used. Features like this could be only active when needed.

 

[veneto]

I want a waterproof phone. That way I can use it in the shower, the pool, and most importantly, the jacuzzi.

 

[Alvi]

Perhaps he wants to measure air pressure/temperature.

Not to suggest anything but samsung has weather and barometric pressure sensors in their phone and it works great. I think this would be a super feature. I do not use a data package so to get local temperature like this would be cool. As far as I can see from a web search all phones do heat up when heavily used. Features like this could be only active when needed.

I have those on the GS4 I got from work and it sucks, it takes about 3 minutes to accurately measure something which defeats it's purpose. And it always shows temperatures that are like 4-8C hotter than it actually is.

I don't know how it "Works great"

 

[wrcooke]

I have those on the GS4 I got from work and it sucks, it takes about 3 minutes to accurately measure something which defeats it's purpose. And it always shows temperatures that are like 4-8C hotter than it actually is.

I don't know how it "Works great"

Really!!
I was looking at one in a store and it seemed to be fine. Perhaps as the temp was constant I did not see the time to read the temp. Will look for that next time and see if this is consistent.

 

[Alvi]

Really!!
I was looking at one in a store and it seemed to be fine. Perhaps as the temp was constant I did not see the time to read the temp. Will look for that next time and see if this is consistent.

Yes, I chose the S4 at that time because it was the best android device available. However all Gimmicks are BS, I changed it's software to stock android like the Nexus phone and it works great.
All stuff samsung uses to advertise the phone is BS. The reality is that it's a 1080p beast with 2GB of ram, quad core and expandable storage.