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How about some more sensors. No phone can tell me the temperature, without checking weather online. What if I want to know the room temperature. Could put humid
by tabs_masterrace 8y ago
How about some more sensors. No phone can tell me the temperature, without checking weather online. What if I want to know the room temperature. Could put humidity, atmospheric pressure sensors in there too, IR cameras, all kinds of cool stuff. Think of the software applications, right know my "smart" phone has no way of knowing if I'm outside or inside.
Then, voice mail. Why doesn't this still not work locally? There is no reason the phone shouldn't be able of answering and recording messages by itself.
- rhn_mk1 8y ago> How about some more sensors. No phone can tell me the temperature Electronics get hot when operating, and even more so when they are sitting in the pocket. Typical temp sensors are attached to 30cm long cables. Nevertheless, I'm sure phones can do that already if you install a weather station in your house.
- ricardobeat 8y agoSomeone figured out how to measure ambient temperature based on _battery temperature_ a long time ago, with high reliability!
- epanchin 8y agoHow does it compensate for being in your pocket?
- londons_explore 8y agoMost phones already have a bunch of temperature sensors, air pressure sensor, magnetic field sensors, humidity sensors etc. I'm pretty sure the iPhone has them too, but perhaps they don't make them available to app developers.
- saagarjha 8y agoOff the top of my head, iPhone’s barometer and magnetometer are accessible via public API.
- epanchin 8y agoLocally recorded voicemail only makes sense for landlines; there’s a good reason it doesn’t exist in phones. Visual voicemail is implemented if your carrier supports it.
- zepto 8y agoWhat’s the benefit of local voicemail?
- thekyle 8y agoWell the obvious benefit is that you could access your voicemail recordings offline. Also for Android devices there would presumably be some way to access the raw audio files and transfer them to another computer for long-term storage.
- jhasse 8y agoThe Galaxy S4 had a temperature sensor. Believe me: It was very unreliable since the phone has a different temperature than the room.
- michelledepeil 8y agoI've felt that expensive (> $300) phones should have more than basic functionality for a while now. In fact it does work the other way: for less than 300 euros, you can get a totally _normal, functional_ phone. See moto c plus, moto g line, moto e line, wileyfox spark x. For more than 300 euros, you get essentially the same phone with a slightly better camera, which I suspect is mostly (custom) software doing the hard work. Or alternatively you get a finally FOSS device, which I understand pushes the price up.