Rumors say the Pixel 8 Pro will have a temperature sensor. But an app called FeverPhone is already measuring body temperatures — and with impressive results.
Google is eyeing a piece of the health market with the upcoming Pixel 8 Pro, thanks to a temperature sensor that would reportedly let users sense fever symptoms. Unlike the ill-fated Soli radar sensor on the Pixel 4 series, this one makes sense. Keeping an eye on your body temperature, especially the fluctuations, is crucial as abnormal spikes or drops can be a sign of serious body system malfunctions and diseases.
Related The phone’s screen needs to be held against the forehead skin for 90 seconds to measure the heat transfer and estimate the body temperature. According to the research paper, further experimentation is needed when other regions of the body are used for temperature assessment. What the app does is measure the heat transfer happening between a phone and a person’s skin through the screen, while the measurements are taken by the thermistor fitted inside a phone. The thermistor essentially measures the air temperature and the spike in heat temperature when the phone’s screen touches a person’s skin.
While the app’s non-availability in itself is a bummer, another shortcoming is the lack of definitive support for current-gen smartphone hardware. This primarily has to do with the fact that every phone has its own unique internal hardware design, which means the position of the thermistor also varies.
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