Science: why do GPS electronic compass

Many cell phones come with electronic compass, a feature we are using cell phones to determine when the North and South of this sensor is used. Beyond the electronic compass can determine the direction, some Feng Shui masters are also advancing with the times, also began to use the iPad to see Feng Shui for the guests, but also will tell you it is the United States import, see Feng Shui. Kenzo case

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Come back to the topic, that things may be a lot of people asking for electronic compass, cell phones have GPS capability is also necessary to install a digital compass? It is necessary, in the woods or buildings where cell phones are more likely to lose GPS signal, while the electronic compass can guarantee you won’t lose, after all, the Earth’s magnetic field is not going to abruptly disappear. More importantly GPS can only determine the location in which we, and if we are stationary or moving slowly, GPS does not know the direction we are facing. Cell phone combined with electronic compass you can very well make up for it.

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Relies on electronic compass to determine the direction of the magnetic field of the Earth, is it within a small compass? Non-no, or an ordinary compass Feng Shui masters the iPad must be knockoffs, have the nerve to say this is high-tech! We can only say it’s sort of known, traditional compass with a magnetized needle to sense the Earth’s magnetic field, the Earth’s magnetic fields may cause deflection of a magnetic needle, until both ends of the magnetic needle points to the magnetic South Pole and the magnetic north pole of the Earth. Electronic compass, too, only replaced the compass with Magnetoresistive sensor, and then feel the geomagnetic information is converted to a digital signal output to users.

Rely on the Earth’s magnetic field is right, then we hold a magnet around shaking will affect the compass? We will verify this through videos, using the phone is Lenovo’s latest K860i.

We can see in the video, the magnet can really cause electronic compass direction of the offset. So that’s why we use the iPhone to view maps or when using a built-in compass, often reminded the need to shake the phone to recalibrate the compass.

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