http://www.sizzledcore.com/2009/10/20/metal-detector-on-htc-android-phones/ A technology blog based on Android, iPhone, brings you a wide coverage of Internet media news, gadgets reviews and tips/tricks that you won't find anywhere else! Learn how to tweak Firefox, Facebook tricks, unlock iPhone, iPad and root Android phones. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.sizzledcore.com/2009/10/20/metal-detector-on-htc-android-phones/comment-page-1/#comment-13694 Motorola Droid from Verizon – What else can it do? - Bri-B BloG Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:05:53 +0000 http://www.sizzledcore.com/?p=6124#comment-13694 [...] Metal Detector is just what is sounds like. It uses the phones magnetic field sensor to turn your Droid into a small metal detector. I did not believe this one when i first saw it because I could not understand why the phone would have a metal or magnetic field detector in it. Turns out, Motorola’s docking station uses this sensor to determine when you are docked. When plugged in the phone senses the magnet in the back of the dock and knows to launch the docking station software. As a metal detector I can’t say I have found it to be terrible accurate, but it just goes to show how inventive some of these early apps are already. [...] [...] Metal Detector is just what is sounds like. It uses the phones magnetic field sensor to turn your Droid into a small metal detector. I did not believe this one when i first saw it because I could not understand why the phone would have a metal or magnetic field detector in it. Turns out, Motorola’s docking station uses this sensor to determine when you are docked. When plugged in the phone senses the magnet in the back of the dock and knows to launch the docking station software. As a metal detector I can’t say I have found it to be terrible accurate, but it just goes to show how inventive some of these early apps are already. [...]

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