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There was a time when mobile phones gained many sensors, and it all kind of stopped 10 years ago. I expected high-end phones by 2020 would measure distances and
by ASalazarMX 7y ago
There was a time when mobile phones gained many sensors, and it all kind of stopped 10 years ago. I expected high-end phones by 2020 would measure distances and temperatures, air quality, UV exposure, radioactivity, infrared photography, etc. In essence, baby tricorders.
In fact, several of these they can already do with a combination of the existing hardware, but sadly, the market has laser-focused on visual social media.
- ta999999171 7y agoBecause "we" keep incentivizing them to.
- myself248 7y agoCAT was branding a phone some time ago with a low-res thermal camera, but it was locked to some already-ancient version of Android and otherwise total lamesauce. Sad, because I'd buy one if it was just a normal phone plus IR. Presently I make do with a plug-in accessory module. I share your frustration. Consider a sled-backpack-case sort of thing with "all the missing sensors", instead of piecemeal accessories you carry a gaggle of and have to swap out. If it was like one of those extended-battery sled cases, you could just leave it on and write apps that expect it to be there...
- nitrogen 7y agoYou'd probably want the sensor pack to be separable from the phone case, so you can buy a new phone (whose shape changes every year, forcing new accessory purchases). I do think it's simultaneously cool and ridiculous that instead of just adding a simple distance sensor, companies making measurement software for phones double down on the software-only approach with computer vision.
- NickNameNick 7y agoFriend-of-a-friend was involved in this https://ikegps.com/spike/ https://ikegps.com/spike/ I think they licenced it to Stanley or similar.