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#151
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Have you ever used any mobile device on the move (say a plane, train, standing still after a raucous Nokia World party)? ;-)
most of us have - and without any problems. because mobile device (=devices made to be used on the move) are non-touchscreen and their buttons do have "built-in" tactile feedback.
 
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any chance the easter-egg will be a Magnetometer? some people say it has one, some say it doesnt..and from all the videos online, nobody really showed the GPS..so im wondering..if it doesnt have it, i will be a bit dissapointed...coz i really want to get the n900..and i guess it cant be added via FW, right?
 
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#153
Originally Posted by Jack6428 View Post
any chance the easter-egg will be a Magnetometer? some people say it has one
Who's saying it has one?

nobody really showed the GPS
From what I've seen of the GPS, it doesn't have a super-secret compass display, so that's not why people aren't showing it. Just that Ovi Maps is boring to all these long-term Nokia bloggers who've seen it before on S60.

Of course, I may have missed it.
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#154
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Who's saying it has one?



From what I've seen of the GPS, it doesn't have a super-secret compass display, so that's not why people aren't showing it. Just that Ovi Maps is boring to all these long-term Nokia bloggers who've seen it before on S60.

Of course, I may have missed it.
well, one reviewer who was testing the device on one czech mobile site (and wrote 3 articles about it), when i asked him wheter it has an accelerometer and a magnetometer, told me this:

Polohové čidlo a elektromagnetický kompas má.
In English:
Yes, it has a position sensor and an electromagnetic compass.

So, that's why i ask...
 
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#155
There is a fair amount of reviewers who can't tell the exact delineation between accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses and GPS. The unit most likely WILL show a heading (even the N810 does that), but that does not automatically imply the presence of a compass (the heading can be GPS/inertial based). Adding to the confusion is that many high-end devices do have compasses so people say 'the N97 has it, iPhone 3GS has it, then this one has to have it too, right ?'
 

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#156
just point the camera at the sun and it'll compute based on the local time and gps position where north is
 

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@jack6428: have you got an url.. so we get a better idea what the reviewer is like. rather than having people making blind assumptions about him..
 
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@jack6428: have you got an url.. so we get a better idea what the reviewer is like. rather than having people making blind assumptions about him..
sure, i do...but its in Czech (the articles)..the reply i got from him was in comments..anyway, the 3 articles (arranged from oldest to newest):

http://www.mobilmania.cz/clanky/noki...1/default.aspx

http://www.mobilmania.cz/clanky/noki...9/default.aspx

http://www.mobilmania.cz/clanky/noki...9/default.aspx
 

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#159
Originally Posted by Jaffa View Post
Who's saying it has one?



From what I've seen of the GPS, it doesn't have a super-secret compass display, so that's not why people aren't showing it. Just that Ovi Maps is boring to all these long-term Nokia bloggers who've seen it before on S60.

Of course, I may have missed it.
This is a video with Nokia's nordic product chief, Linus Brohult - he clearly says, in the end, that the N900 has a digital compass.

http://tv.mediaprovider.se/?id=1252065242875
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Originally Posted by bobby68 View Post
This is a video with Nokia's nordic product chief - he clearly says, in the end, that the N900 has a digital compass.

http://tv.mediaprovider.se/?id=1252065242875
at 6:15 min
 
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