New iPhone hardware to have digital compass

Quincy Pince-Nez
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May 07, 2009
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BGR has some screengrabs of some debugging screen in the new beta releases of the iPhone 3 OS.  It looks like those magnetometer (digital compass) features of the new iPhone hardware we saw earlier are legit-er.  Question: What is the "kitchen sink?" (as in Everything but the kitchen sink?)

This brings up some interesting possibilites when combined with video and still pictures.  The GPS metatags combined with direction can build 3D landscapes.

Comments (8)

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 3:12am

it's possible that is the way that the water turns in the sink...depends on your location clockwise or counterclockwise..
Am I right?

easypeas (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 3:55am

nope... is an urban legend, it depends from the shape of the sinc

what29 (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 6:27am

If you want Developers account access and UDID activated go to activateiphone.net

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 6:37am

@ UDID

I CALL SPAM!!!!!!

The moderator of these comments should remove that post as that link is is supporting an illegal scheme. Their link appeared in macdailynews comments as well.

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 6:45am

I wonder why you can only log the GPS in Massachusetts. It seems like everyone should be able to log the GPS.

Anyhoo, as a big GPS user for many years, adding a compass and a coordinate logging daemon is a huge deal. Imagine your in a foreign city and you'd like to backtrack to your hotel, or you want to remember where that little restaurant is that you went to the day before yesterday. With a coordinate logging capability, that becomes simple.

Also note "location notifications". With that, you can have set up an alert like "when near a hardware store, remind me to pick up 12 inch carriage bolts".

Pretty cool.

photoshop snoop (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 7:05am

I'd say, nice photoshop job!!!!

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 8:27am

No need for it to be.. the G1 and Magic both have such a compass. It helps with GPS navigation and tracking (not to mention making for some nice compass apps).

9to5Mac Noob (not verified) | May 08, 2009 - 12:14pm

wow, the iPhone has everything AND the kitchen sink. Take that Beauty and the Beast!