Planning on using the Compass app’s level feature on your iPhone 5s to hang a picture or two? Don’t. Because according to a new report, the motion sensors on Apple’s seventh-generation handset – including the gyroscope, on-board compass, and accelerometer – are hugely inaccurate.
The news comes from Gizmodo, which conducted a series of tests. Pitting two iPhone 5s handsets against an iPhone 5 and a number of real-world measuring tools, the website showed how the new smartphone’s on-board motion sensors are way off:
Since the iPhone 5S landed in the hands of new owners a few weeks ago, there have been reports that on-board sensors like the gyroscope, compass, and accelerometer haven’t been working properly on some devices. We’ve confirmed the new iPhone’s failings on our own. It’s not just off. It’s embarrassing.We tested two iPhone 5S units running the latest version of iOS 7 against the iPhone 5, as well as against real-world measuring tools to find out if the new iPhone’s sensors are off, and if they are, by how much. In most cases, we used the iPhone’s built-in iOS 7 apps for measurements, working under the assumption that Apple would properly calibrate its hardware to work with the software of its own design. We were wrong.
How inaccurate, you ask?
Well, according to Gizmodo, the level feature in the built-in Compass app was off by two to three degrees, the gyroscope was out by three degrees also, and the Compass app’s compass tool itself was off by a huge eight degrees.
Source : AppAdvice
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