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iPhone 3GS new features overview, part four of five: The Digital Compass
Sean Carruthers: Hi, I'm Sean Carruthers, and welcome to part four in a five part series on the new iPhone 3GS. Now, one of the things that people have been talking about because they're excited about is the new digital compass has built in, GPS was built into previous generations of the iPhone, which allowed you to position yourself in space and position yourself on the map. But the compass actually now allows you to point in the proper direction which can be very handy, so if you're lost out in the forest you can actually use this to figure out which direction you should be going.
So we're going to press the compass here, and there you go and it will locate us in space here. Sometimes you need to calibrate it by waiving it in figure eight motion because it will be give you a special interference thing now that can happen for a number of reasons electrical interference, magnetic interference, it just occasionally pops up so you can waive it and recalibrate. Right now, it's actually showing us where we are, so we can spin this and you can see the compass is continuing to move as we spin this back and forth.
So it takes a couple of seconds to kick in, so give it a little bit of time. Now again, that's very nice but where it really comes in handy is inside the maps application. So if you are in a place that you have never been before, have gotten at the subway or a train or just generally have not clue where you are, it can come in handy here, so this is going to place us in a where we are right now at the studio. And when we press that button not only just locate us but it actually spins the map in place, so we actually know which direction we are.
So if you have no clue which direction you need to head, you can just tap on the and just tap on the beacon there that used to just only locate you, and now it will locate you, and point you in proper direction. We assess the compass on the new iPhone 3GS. Thanks for watching and be sure to check out the other episodes in the series.
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