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Motion-sensitive Handhelds?
An anonymous reader writes "Fancy controlling your mobile phone just by moving it? This article on ZDNet describes a new smartphone that is motion sensitive, so users can zoom into a Web page, scroll round a document or switch from portrait view to landscape simply by tilting the handset." The company website has a little more information.
I was trying to think of all the potential problems with *unintentional* motions with this device for a troll post, but I read this quote
Motion control can also be used to scroll around and zoom in and out of an application. With the mirror button pushed down, the user can see different parts of the document or Web page by tilting the handset. MyOrigo compares this technique to that of moving a mirror around to see different areas of your face. A zoom button also works on the same principle.
So they've already addressed my potential complaints. It looks like great technology, and I hope it spreads to PDAs, and not just staying with cellular devices.
Yes, I was going to troll. Why do you think I read the article. If I was just interested in posting, I wouldn't have bothered, like all the *funny* commenters around.
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A new smartphone from Finland lets users scroll and zoom simply by using their hands
Seems that I can do that with my *old* phone... just use my hands to push the scroll button!!
Seriously though, you have to push a button corresponding to the motion you're about to do if you want it to recognize the motion (assuming I understood the article). Now if you have to push the button anyway, why bother moving the phone? Just to look cool? I mean, you're already pushing a button, why not just make it the scroll of zoom button?
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What I want to see is a marble/labyrinth game for cell phones. Wouldn't *that* be something?
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