Thread: Do you know of any upcoming commercial physical hardware limitations for the n900 devices that may limit it's life?
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2010-09-20 , 04:26
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Originally Posted by ndi View Post
On a side note, I tried the iPhone's and by slowly rotating the phone along its axis I was able to get a reading on "West" with a +/- 45 degree error. That is, fiddle with it enough and West will be South.

I find this to be unusable. Better to use GPS, photos, a map, or ask a camel than to think you are going the right way and actually going 90 degrees to the west.
This doesn't happen on the iPhone 4's compass at all. IMO it feels like what a digital compass should feel like: a hard lock at north at all times without any drift/swaying of analog compass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V7Sa_daVsI

I remember the iPhone 3GS compass could drift if you rotate it slowly, just like an analog compass with a stuck needle. Then again, that's not how you would realistically use a compass.
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