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Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB
wasting your batteries on a phone with no area to charge it for a compass when you can use a real one that costs next to nothing is a bit silly is it not?
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Yes, you're right -- but I bought this so I wouldn't need my (better) pda and (ancient) phone as two
separate devices. Think of this as a swiss army knife. How practical is it really to stuff your pockets full of things you
might need?
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Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB
skymap is a cool thing but seriously, they are gimics, i dont buy a phone for gimics. if i did i would have bought an iphone
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True, but alas it seems
all modern phones are gimmicky. The Android-based ones seem to be the most
useful gimmicks though.
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Originally Posted by Rastaman-FB
i really dont understand why you would use a compass in street view to rotate an image for a street you are in when you could just turn your head.
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Okay, so maybe Street View is not the best example; let's consider augmented reality applications then. There really is practicality in knowing how your device is oriented.
I think a lot of what is considered gimmicks now is really merely
immature. I'm sure the first mobile phones were seen as terribly gimmicky as well. After all, everyone has a phone at home and there are (well, were) pay phones all around, right? Well, there are (or have since arisen) good uses for them anyhow.
... aaaanyway, this thread was not about the use(ful|less)ness of compasses per se, but whether or not they are error-prone and/or broken in this particular model.