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2016-07-18 , 12:47
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Originally Posted by Fellfrosch View Post
That's really annoying. Why the heck have they left out a compass? I use my phone often for hiking trips. Without a compass that's rubbish!
Same thing -- maps is my main use case for these devices ; Compass is what sold me the N9 over the N900 despite the loss of keyboard. This time, I have to trade off both keyboard and compass for double the RAM which I don't really require to begin with (even when using the Gentoo chroot...).

I'm really tired of this. I don't necessarily want high-end devices, but why do I have to think of trade-offs at this level of cheapness?

Originally Posted by explit View Post
So Navigation is not possible at all with Jolla C?

Is that the reason, why sailfish-maps package is not preinstalled ?
Navigation is GPS, not compass. Compass provides orientation even without physical displacement or GPS fix.

It means no Pokemon Go nor any kind of geographical AR, though.
 

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