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iPhone 6 'Phosphorus' Component Likely a Barometric Pressure Sensor, Not Next-Generation M7
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I don't know why, but I get the vaguest notion of an impending dishwasher detergent ad when I look at this image:
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Hence the humidity sensor. Duh. Seems like someone missed a Johnson & Johnson partnership rumor... glad we caught it in time! Let's make a new article.
Doctors barely have time to listen to a single complaint, let alone be bothered with any data from a phone!
What Macrumors reported is true.
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Yeah, health sucks. Bring on disease!
...and let's give it up for war, famine and death! Yay!
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A Barometer should be able to measure your blood alcohol level, no?
The schematic notes that it's connected to the M7 coprocessor, and it matches a previous rumor:
Evidence of iPhone 6 Atmospheric Pressure Sensor Found in iOS 8
An API was found that gives back relative pressure changes. (See locating application at bottom of this post.)
-- Humidity, Temperature
As noted in another thread, other phones (including the Galaxy S4) have had ambient temperature and humidity sensors as inputs to the S-Health app. They've also been used in group weather input collection.
-- Pressure
However, Apple apparently is only including the barometric pressure sensor, which as many of us have noted, is handy for noting indoor location changes between floors. Good for exercise apps, and of course for indoor mapping.
Obama would like to charge you more for health insurance if you disobey the death panel, aka Siri.
It's probably used in devices that are larger than an iPhone. The iPhone is basically a battery wrapped in metal and glass; it doesn't even have enough room to have the camera lens flush with the body.
However, it doesn't mean that there isn't a way to calibrate the sensor to minimize the impact that the phone's internal environment would cause.
Yeap
I disagree, this is the first time you create a new post to explain an update for an iPhone 6 post afaik. Just say that you want people from other sites to quote the post since this info was corrected by macrumors members.
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Someone doesn't get the joke... wushhh right over you.
The closest they could get would be a temperature sensor the headphone remote. But even that is so close to the body that unless the body temperature isn't much above the ambient temperature, reading will still be biased.
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Most barometers I know also measure the temperature because they have to. The pressure sensing mechanism is usually temperature-sensitive, meaning that changing the temperature will change its readings thus a temperature sensor is added to be able to correct for that. Where ambient pressure sensors might differ is whether they also provide that temperature reading along with the pressure data or only use it internally.
Of course, "Sept 9th" is still a rumor right?
That the iPhone 6 will ever exist is still technically a rumor.
My wife has hypertension and she uses a Withings blood pressure measuring cuff attached to her iPad to measure her blood pressure every morning. Her doctor likes her to bring her iPad to appointments so she can look at a graph of her blood pressure over the past few weeks/months, so she can assess the overall trend up or down, which might in turn point to the efficacy of her medication.
It's probably used in devices that are larger than an iPhone. The iPhone is basically a battery wrapped in metal and glass; it doesn't even have enough room to have the camera lens flush with the body.
However, it doesn't mean that there isn't a way to calibrate the sensor to minimize the impact that the phone's internal environment would cause.
Right. Other phones have had ambient temperature sensors, with internal sensors for correction.
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It can't.
That was just an overall list of what the chip could be used for in equipment, not necessarily a smartphone.
Unless it's a smartphone with a hole to breathe into
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In the past I would have scoffed at an iPhone used as a spirometer. It seems like healthcare, though, is being taken into the hands of the consumer as the medical care we receive deteriorates in quality. I was just at my PCP to do a spirometry test. I blew into this machine so many times I couldn't count. Each time they had a computer error. They could see my data but the computer couldn't compute the data because of some technical problem. No follow-up from the doctor. I just left with the impression that that was the best they could do.
It's kind of how we can now (where I live at least) not rely on the electrical grid. According my dad when he was growing up, the electricity went out maybe once a year at the most, if that. Now everyone in our neighborhood has a generator. We expect it to go out for 1-2 weeks each year, and from small storms, not just hurricanes.
Companies are in a ripe position to take over where public infrastructure is failing.
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I was assuming the implication was that a device attached to the iPhone could work as a spirometer by using this new processor.
It's kind of how we can now (where I live at least) not rely on the electrical grid. According my dad when he was growing up, the electricity went out maybe once a year at the most, if that. Now everyone in our neighborhood has a generator. We expect it to go out for 1-2 weeks each year, and from small storms, not just hurricanes.
Companies are in a ripe position to take over where public infrastructure is failing.
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Right. Other phones have had ambient temperature sensors, with internal sensors for correction.
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It can't.
That was just an overall list of what the chip could be used for in equipment, not necessarily a smartphone.
Unless it's a smartphone with a hole to breathe into
I was assuming the implication was that a device attached to the iPhone could work as a spirometer by using this new processor.
A cheap sensor, a 1GB NAND for system, a second NAND, NFC, poorly label diagram?
Sounds like an Android phone to me.
(Apple made the bootrom in the main NAND and CPU, not a separate one since it is small. And 1GB is never enough for the system. )
Sounds like an Android phone to me.
(Apple made the bootrom in the main NAND and CPU, not a separate one since it is small. And 1GB is never enough for the system. )
Of course, "Sept 9th" is still a rumor right?
Until Apple announces it, it's a rumor.
Oh no, of course not. Why would anyone around here be looking forward to Apples next big product?
Barometers don't measure temperature though. They're for the pressure of the atmosphere. Whether or not modern barometric devices include one wasn't my point.
Maybe crowdsourcing weather? Could also be to provide more accurate estimates of calories burned during a workout, assuming that humidity has a significant effect. Anybody know?