The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors
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Re: The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors
#2Well that's disappointing. Adding gimmicky(imo) sensors and removing functional/useful sensors.
Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing.
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#3The best tl;dr ever!
Re: The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors
#4Well that's disappointing. Adding gimmicky(imo) sensors and removing functional/useful sensors. Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing.
"Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing."
Wait, what? Samsung is trying to make majority of customers happy and that's disappointing? This is what you are saying?
Re: The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors
#5It's most likely due to the water-proofing. The S4 rugged version has the same limitation.
Re: The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors
#6Well that's disappointing. Adding gimmicky(imo) sensors and removing functional/useful sensors. Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing.
"Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing." Wait, what? Samsung is trying to make majority of customers happy and that's disappointing? This is what you are saying?
Did you miss the "gimmicky" part? Samsung is thinking from the customer perspective in that they are usually brought in by flashy "new" features. But that doesn't mean that these features actually pan out into anything useful.
Re: The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors
#7Well that's disappointing. Adding gimmicky(imo) sensors and removing functional/useful sensors. Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing.
"Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing." Wait, what? Samsung is trying to make majority of customers happy and that's disappointing? This is what you are saying?
I guess "consumer perspective" means "optimizing short-term amount of money extracted from customers for value given" instead of "providing the most awesome product we can and reaping benefits a little bit later".
Re: The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors
#8Well that's disappointing. Adding gimmicky(imo) sensors and removing functional/useful sensors. Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing.
"Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing." Wait, what? Samsung is trying to make majority of customers happy and that's disappointing? This is what you are saying?
When you give developers more tools, they surprise you with what they come up with. Consumers didn't say they wanted accelerometers, but once developers got ahold of them, they proved massively useful.
If you give me a new sensor, I might not have any ideas on how to make it useful, but if one developer has one good idea, that benefits me.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Obviously Samsung is thinking from a consumer prospective, but still very disappointing." Wait, what? Samsung is trying to make majority of customers happy and that's disappointing? This is what you are saying?
When you give developers more tools, they surprise you with what they come up with. Consumers didn't say they wanted accelerometers, but once developers got ahold of them, they proved massively useful. If you give me a new sensor, I might not have any ideas on how to make it useful, but if one developer has one good idea, that benefits me.
Exactly correct! Google and Motorola put a barometer into the Xoom to test GPS altitude improvements, and it turned out that some developers (like me, and like the opensignal team) discovered that the sensor actually has world-changing potential in atmosphere modelling. Huge benefit from a simple sensor addition that didn't even really have a clear purpose at launch.
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