53% of Users Pick Phone Sensors as Tape Measure in Poll of Nearly 3,000 Votes
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Updated · Android Authority · Aug 19
53% of Users Pick Phone Sensors as Tape Measure in Poll of Nearly 3,000 Votes
2 articles · Updated · Android Authority · Aug 19
Summary
53% of respondents chose using a phone as a tape measure, making it the clear winner in Android Authority’s poll on which sensor-based tool people would actually use.
Nearly 3,000 votes backed that option, far ahead of the phone-as-metal-detector choice at 27%, while spirit level and sound/light meter split the remainder.
The result suggests users favor a practical, occasionally needed function over more specialized tools, especially when many people do not keep a tape measure handy.
Pixel’s thermometer was excluded because it is a Pixel-only feature and has been dropped from the Pixel 11, though the report noted earlier polling found thousands still used it.