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Re:The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors by Crito on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @02:34PM (#7561321)
Temperature would be extremely useful... if not for the fact that I typically store my cellphone millimeters away from my body.

If temperature were useful, then humidity would be as well because then you could calculate local humidex.

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Re:The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors by nathanm412 on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @02:51PM (#7561454)
It would have more to do with the temperature of the CPU and/or battery than anything dealing with the outside temperature.
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Re:The Galaxy S5 does not have temperature or humidity sensors by arrrg on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @05:56PM (#7562738)
Why? My phone tends to be warm because of body heat most of the time. Yeah, the shell can sometimes get warm under load, but that’s the exception. I would guess that if not for body heat and with the right placement a temperature sensor could get useful data.

However, with the phone nearly always being transported so close to the body I really don’t see it being useful.

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