Satellite AR is a very, very exciting-sounding Android app for those of you who like lying down and looking up – it claims to track satellites and overlay their data on your phone screen so you can see what’s glinting overhead, like a higher-up version of Plane Finder.
Here’s a bit of the how-it-works explanation:
The app asks you to choose a category of satellites and uses your mobile GPS or wireless network to determine your position. This location is then sent to the server, which computes overhead satellite visibility for your location. The server combines satellite data from CelesTrak.com with analysis from AGI Components, and returns azimuth and elevation data back to the mobile device for display.
We don’t have enough technical knowledge about satellites and their movements to know if the data generated by the app is correct or not, but… it’ll be nice to look at all the same. Something to do at night.
Read the technical data about the app and its inner workings over on the publisher’s site. Certainly sounds convincing.
HTC’s 4.3″ dual-core Android model, powered by Qualcomm’s all-new S4 processor. It’s smaller than the enormous One X, but is it as nice as its bigger brother? (SPOILER: Yes it is).
HTC is very much B-A-C-K at the top of the Android world with this, its quad-core flagship for 2012. Great camera, huge 4.7″ display and Android 4.0 running beautifully well.
Sony returns with an all-new mobile design for 2012, pairing a dual-core processor with a 720p display. It’s a lovely phone, but is it enough to end our Samsung and HTC obsession?
LG’s updated Prada phone comes with an absolutely crazy black & white theme, but is it just for fashionable suit wearers who want to make themselves look a bit more interesting?
Simon
/ November 10, 2010It’s cool and it works – tried it tonight when the ISS passed over.
abdola
/ May 4, 2011it doesn’t work
what must I do?