Gyroscope Gives CellPhones 'Tilt Control'

Paul Stamatiou writes "You can now control cellphone activities by simply tilting it. "If you have a game involving keeping a car on the road, you do that by tilting," says company spokesman Jan Ahrenbring. The tilting technique can also be used to sweep large virtual pages across the phone's screen, which acts as window on the information."

Comments

Re:Another feature I don't want/need.

[heironymouscoward]

Perhaps you're living in the wrong country. My Nokia GSM has more than 6 hours' talk time, the battery runs for ten days or so, and reception is crystal clear everywhere I go.

All it is really missing is motion control. That way I can answer the phone simply by picking it up, hold a call by putting the phone down, and scroll through my address list by shaking the phone like a lunatic instead of clicking those damn arrow keys.

My guess is: if the rocker control is cheap and easy to hook up to the UI, it will be a natural and useful extension to the way we use phones.

Rotation

[rf0]

Also from this months Stuff Magazine there is a perview of this phone on the inside back cover. One other funky thing it can do is that if you rotate it 90 degrees it will actually flip the screen orientation

Rus

Re:Another feature I don't want/need.

[gpinzone]

Get educated. CDMA is much more advanced than the TDMA technology that's in the GSM standard. Besides, you want GSM? Get T-Mobile. You see how easy that is when you have a choice?