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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. Not bad.. by Darken_Everseek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    At first I had visions of people not being able to hold a view they actually wanted; but since there's a button you have to press to access each of these features, I like the idea. Probably works based from an electronic gyroscope of some sort .. cool.

  2. Tilt sensitive Mobile Phones? by SkArcher · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Now I need to program a game for one of these in the style of one of those old 'ball bearing maze' puzzles you used to get in christmas crackers when I was a kid.

    Damn you /.

    I wonder how accurate and sensitive the tile function is?

    --

    An infinite number of monkeys will eventually come up with the complete works of /.
  3. Great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    And then, in the name of convenience, they'll make it so X shakes activates speed dial only to find out stories like this become more and more common.

  4. awesome gaming potential by donutz · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Motion sensitive computing input devices of any kind make for some awesome gaming potential.

    In this case, you could have a wicked game of labyrinth running on your PDA!

  5. Re:you mean like the compaq itsy ?? by DemonMucha · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was going to say the same thing, I believe Compaq/HP even holds a patent on it already. I think they even intergrated it with some test versions of the iPaq...