Broken cell phone still functions as survival tool

SURVIVAL — Although you should never depend on a cell phone to be your ticket safety in an outdoor survival situation, it has obvious benefits — if the battery isn’t dead, if it works, if you have coverage, etc.
But even if you cell phone was dropped and broken, it still has some remarkable potential as a survival tool, as this interesting Daily Infographic illustration details.
One point about the cool suggestion of using the phone’s speaker magnet, a leaf and a piece of wire to make a compass:
This situation assumes there is NO WIND or that you can shelter the leaf from any influence by the wind.
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