[Honor 5X Guides, News, & Discussion] shashank1320:
Most of us are normally not aware about a number of sensors that are present in our smartphone and what purpose they are used for. While purchasing a phone we only focus on RAM, Memory, processors, camera specs, battery specs, price, brand but we forget this main feature about the sensors that we are getting in our phone and what is their usage. Now in this article, I will focus only on the sensors that are present in Honor 5X and I am using them all. There are many other sensors available in other Honor devise but I would refrain myself focusing there as I am not using them.

Accelerometer- For auto rotate feature, the accelerometer is one of the most common sensors one can find in a smartphone. It checks and analyze if a phone is ideal or is in motion. It calculates the orientation of your smartphone along 3 axes. Information gathered from Accelerometer is used by apps or OS to switch the orientation of the screen between portrait or landscape as per your movement. Any app, smartphone feature or game that reacts to you by tilting your phone depends on Accelerometer data.

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Ambient Light Sensor- For adjusting the brightness automatically, the light sensor comes into the picture to measure the brightness of ambient light. It sends its reading to the phone’s brain(processor) which as per the operating system’s algorithm adjusts display’s luminosity. If the place is dark and the dusky phone automatically dims the screen brightness so that it won’t affect user’s eyes. On the other hand, under direct sunlight phone maximizes brightness level.

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Proximity Sensor- The Proximity sensor is another common sensor present in every smartphone. It comes equipped with an infrared LED and an IR light detector. Proximity sensor radiates a beam of infrared light which gets reflected from the nearby object and this reflection is registered by IR scanner. Ever noticed how your screen goes off when you are on a call and your phone is near to your ears? Because of this sensor so that it allows you to have an uninterrupted calling experience because screen is off and you don’t need to bother about call getting disconnected accidently.

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Digital Compass or Magnetometer- ever ran into situation at unknown/new location and want to know the direction? As the name implies Magnetometer is used to sense Magnet fields and provide information defining your phone’s orientation with respect to it. All compass apps use Magnetometer sensor to detect your physical direction on the map. Due to this very reason our digital map rotates automatically in the same direction when we take a turn while driving.

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Fingerprint Sensor- Do I really need to explain this? well yeah I certainly can quickly. The last but certainly not the least in the list is a fingerprint sensor. The fingerprint sensor is currently trending in the smartphone industry. The fingerprint sensor proves handy if you carry lots of important details in your smart device. It senses the ridges of the finger skin. Fingerprint sensors can be used to conveniently unlock the device, app lock, calling, camera click, muting alarms and many more.

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Link to my original post on Honor community @ https://club.hihonor.com/in/honor5x.229/feature-review--sensors-it-really-sense-it-all-.3295