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Motion-sensitive Handhelds?

Posted by michael on from the shaken-not-stirred dept.

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.

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  1. hmm... by Kadagan+AU · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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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  2. Re:Lets see by swordboy · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What I want to see is a marble/labyrinth game for cell phones. Wouldn't *that* be something?

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