Does the upcoming N900 have a compass?

I've tried finding out this information from various websites, including Nokia's and the Nokia Maemo website, but haven't had a definite conclusion to it. I even found one tech blog that said a magnetometer (digital compass) was included in N900.
I know Nokia themselves don't list it in the device features, but I was kind of hoping it would be such a small feature for Nokia that they'd decided to leave it out
See, in one of the screenshots of the N900 running Nokia Maps I can see a similar compass icon as in screenshots of N97 running the same program. Is it the button to turn on the compass or just an indicator of how the map is rotated in the application?
The screenshot: http://www.nokia.fi/PRODUCT_METADATA_0/Products/Phones/N-series/N900/images/n900_image_techspecs_dev...
The icon is on top of another square icon in the lower left hand corner.
Thank you in advance for any useful insight
Message Edited by kvirtanen on 30-Aug-2009 10:39 AM
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I have no experience of the N97, but I understand your concern. Maybe the improved hardware on the N900 could make the experience a little better? I move around with a bike and by foot a lot, so for me the compass would make my GPS navigating experience a lot better. I wouldn't have to be moving in order to have the map aligned correctly. Not to mention that it would enable the device to have many augmented reality applications developed for it.
I read from somewhere that the OMAP processor could have the magnetometer included in it, I wonder if this is accurate at all? I went and read the Texas Instruments' spec sheets of the chip and found no mention of such a feature.
Now that Nokia has added the magnetometer to three recent mobile devices (E72, the 5800 Navigation edition and N97) I naturally hoped that the N900 would have it too.
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