Barometer is very cool addition. I'm sure they'll eventually have an API for it.
What is it used for in the phone?
Barometers are often used to improve motion tracking accuracy, not sure if this is a common use case for phones.
iPhone 6
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Re: iPhone 6
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How is that going to be useful?
I'm building a dense network of atmosphere sensors using smartphones in order to build a more accurate weather model [1]. Android's APIs allow us to access the raw data, but all of Apple's marketing talks just about "elevation". I'm hoping they give us access to the raw sensor, and not just elevation change. Humanity ought to have a much better weather forecast than we have now, as we're nearing 1B+ internet-connecte…
How is what you're building different from PressureNet (https://pressurenet.io/)?
Re: iPhone 6
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm building a dense network of atmosphere sensors using smartphones in order to build a more accurate weather model [1]. Android's APIs allow us to access the raw data, but all of Apple's marketing talks just about "elevation". I'm hoping they give us access to the raw sensor, and not just elevation change. Humanity ought to have a much better weather forecast than we have now, as we're nearing 1B+ internet-connecte…
How is what you're building different from PressureNet ( https://pressurenet.io/ )?
I'm building PressureNet :) (edited my post above to add that)
Re: iPhone 6
#17Barometer is very cool addition. I'm sure they'll eventually have an API for it.
What is it used for in the phone?
It means instead of waiting for a GPS lock in 30 seconds it's under 10.
The barometer makes calculating your position via GPS much quicker, as it has an additional piece of data to simplify some of the maths it does.
Edit: here's a source which may confirm - http://pocketnow.com/android/google-confirms-barometer-inten...
Re: iPhone 6
#18The iPhone6+ looks just like one of those giant Android monsters from Nexus or Samsung. This makes me sad.
I have small-person sized hands and often struggle even with the normal iPhone5 and the trend for making phones bigger and bigger makes me angry and sad at the same time. I hate it and always, always, when my friends would ask why I prefer Apple over cheaper and better speced devices, my answer was "Because Apple is the only phone that doesn't compete on screen size".
This throws that out the window. Great.
Re: iPhone 6
#19I wonder if jeans manufacturers will release pants with extra deep pockets and market them as iPhone 6 Plus compatible?