What Apple may have plans for the iPhone 5S M7 chip?

Perhaps overshadowed by the A7 chip 64bits, the iPhone 5S M7 processor, designed to manage motion sensors, has gone more unnoticed than it should and can be one of the most important growth factors for the future of Apple Maps on Apple smartphones.

Apple presented the iPhone 5S and while dazzled with the new 64-bit chip A7, went on tiptoe by the other processor is inside the terminal, the M7. This chip is the one that is responsible for controlling the sensors of accelerometer, compass and gyroscope and, as highlighted by Phil Shiller, "opens a new generation of apps aimed at training and health care" ... but what is only going to be in that?

The M7 will be the catalyst for the maps but for other application

The Cupertino company can be criticized for many things, but not to "stitch without thread". If you have included a chip like this is because they have something in mind. According to rumors already circulating in the network, the more immediate task of the M7 will give a boost to the much-criticized iOS Maps.

The official Apple has posted on its website on the iPhone 5S can see some details of what is being cooked in the laboratories of the California company. For starters, the M7 will allow the iPhone 5S know if we are walking, running or in a vehicle, and could adapt the path accordingly Maps without having to do anything. At the same time, if you recognize that we mounted in a car or on public transport, stop trying to connect to Wi-Fi networks that go encontrando.Pero M7 seems that not only know if we are moving, but also where we stand. If the terminal detects time-consuming if you move, cut its most basic functions to save battery.

Other features that appear to be developing

Beyond brushing by Apple, the media as 9to5Mac suggests that several sources have commented that they are working on other features like that when aparquemos car and M7 chip detects that we have gone so "pedestrian", record the position of the vehicle to find it later.
In recent months, the Cupertino have acquired various companies related to one or another aspect of geolocation information. Although not expected in the upcoming iOS 7 will arrive in less than a week, news of this type appear, is aimed at iOS 8 as the time for the great renewal for Apple Maps and perhaps the M7 chip will the key to all amenities including integration with public transport or maps inside buildings - some of them that otherwise its great rival, Google Maps, and offers in its iOS app -.