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If there is a sensor in your phone, Nokia EVP of location and commerce Michael Halbherr is going to figure out some way to use it. Nokia is already experimenting with camera, GPS and digital compass sensors to create augmented reality apps like City Lens. It’s using the phone’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth radios to map indoor locations where there’s no clear view to a GPS satellite.
Today’s smartphones already have an impressive array of sensors, which individually and in combination can be used to power a mind-boggling array of apps and services. But Halbherr has one eye wandering in search of the sensors of the future. In a recent interview, he told me the next set of electronic sensors to wind up in our phones could very well be humidity and barometric pressure meters.
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Posted: 2012-07-05 21:27:21
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Haha well let's hope it will be more accurate than some of the weather apps. I have often refreshed my weather app and it showed sunny when it was raining :-/
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Posted: 2012-07-05 21:40:00
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