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Wow your mates!

bzzzzz

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Dec 27, 2009
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It can be a bit sad showing off your new phone, but nonetheless there are a couple of apps that my friends have seen and thought were pretty cool.

I want to know which apps have impressed people when you've shown them your new phone.


I'd say the two that have impressed people most are

Google Sky Map: Moving the phone around to name all the constellations can be good at night, but even in the day pointing at the ground and saying jupiter is just over there, behind the Earth, does have a certain WOW value.

Metal detector: I don't think this is a metal detector, I think it uses the inbuilt compass to detect ferromagnetic materials (iron, steel, cobalt, nickel, iron oxide). Still if you drag it over the buckle of your belt or near your keys it will almost certainly buzz

I also like

solo lite: which is a little acoustic guitar app. see if you can work out the song that goes with chords when played in the order the appear on the screen.

and

fxcamera: make andy warhol pictures of anybody/anything
 
It can be a bit sad showing off your new phone, but nonetheless there are a couple of apps that my friends have seen and thought were pretty cool.

I want to know which apps have impressed people when you've shown them your new phone.


I'd say the two that have impressed people most are

Google Sky Map: Moving the phone around to name all the constellations can be good at night, but even in the day pointing at the ground and saying jupiter is just over there, behind the Earth, does have a certain WOW value.

Metal detector: I don't think this is a metal detector, I think it uses the inbuilt compass to detect ferromagnetic materials (iron, steel, cobalt, nickel, iron oxide). Still if you drag it over the buckle of your belt or near your keys it will almost certainly buzz

I also like

solo lite: which is a little acoustic guitar app. see if you can work out the song that goes with chords when played in the order the appear on the screen.

and

fxcamera: make andy warhol pictures of anybody/anything


Metal detector does use the compass to detect magnetic materials...which is what a metal detector does!

Crank up the sensitivity and it can find things across the room, so I would assume you could use it on the beach.
 
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Metal detector does use the compass to detect magnetic materials...which is what a metal detector does!

Crank up the sensitivity and it can find things across the room, so I would assume you could use it on the beach.

I think that metal detectors work in a slightly different way. I'm pretty sure that metal detectors can detect gold and this can't detect gold.

In order to detect all metals you need to induce an electric current (probably by having an alternating magnetic field) in the metal you're looking for which will produce a magnetic field. This magnetic field could be detected by the compass. As far as I'm aware the phone cannot produce a sufficient alternating magnetic field to induce a current and large enough magnitude to be detected by the inbuilt compass.
 
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Oh, and it also went off when I moved it over my hand, arm, and legs. No rings, pins or any foreign metal objects in any of those either. LOL


Maybe it was sooooo sensitive that it picked up the Iron, and metals in you? We may be on to something. ... Find a way to use that, and turn our phones into some sort of xray cameras,,, or like ummm.... yeah... lol
 
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