Thread: Touch Pro 2 has a digital compass!?! answer=no
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Old 09-21-2009, 05:49 AM
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Re: Touch Pro 2 has a digital compass!?! answer=no
The GPS in our device is able to sense our heading or direction of travel based on where we are in relation to the satellites. However it does not have an actual magnetometer required for actual compass guiding gauged from a walking pace. In other words we would have to be in a moving vehicle to get a real reading of direction that we are headed.

Last I read, the new iPhones were getting a magnetometer. That would be how they can act as a compass. Same thing with the G1.
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