your Nokia N97 or Samsung i8910 HD as a compass and find your way! A built-in magnetometer and GPS provide the following functionality: direction in degrees, traditional compass and longitude/latitude coordinates. This application is for Nokia N97 and Samsung i8910 HD only.
As you all know compass is a handy navigational instrument which is used to identify the direction in any place. Thought compass is not useful in day to day life sometimes we find it useful while on adventurous trips, forest camps etc. In such cases, we may find it difficult to locate the path if we don’t have a compass. Here is one handy compass tool for Java based mobile phones.
Compass for J2ME works on all mobile phones with Java support. Most of the popular mobile phones and almost all latest handsets from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG, Blackberry, HTC, Motorola, Samsung and any other java enabled phones are supported. Impressive fact about this application is that it does not require any GPRS connection to work which makes it a really mobile application even if you are out of network.
This tool is totally based on scientific / astronomical calculations and shows accurate directions based on the location, date, time, position of sun / moon. It is quite difficult to use this tool during afternoon hours as you cannot properly point out to the direction of sun.
Let us see how to configure and get the exact NS directions with this mobile compass tool.
1. Location: If you know the exact airport code of your nearest airport, you may use that. You may also enter the latitude / longitude. If you are not clear on that, a random placement of location by moving your arrows will work as the time zone is usually one per country.
2. Time Zone: After you enter the location, you will be asked with time zones based on location. This one should be entered correctly as you know the right one. Each time using the application there is a need to calibrate the digital compass. Actually it does matter which application you are using the digial compass needs to be calibrate each time. The calibration is done according to the following diagram, waving the Nokia E72 and “drawing” the infinity symbol in the air.
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