Archive for the ‘Handsets’ Category

Motion Sensors in Mobile Phones

Monday, June 5th, 2006


Samsung S310


Click to see video clip (YouTube).

Samsung has released it's S310 handset, which was announced last January. The S310 uses a six-axis sensor that allows for the detection of spatial movement in 3 dimensions, including
movement speed.

As I wrote on my previous post Gyros on Mobile Handsets – A Very Powerful Tool, “with gyros embedded into handsets we are a step closer to the programmatic use of movement in space over time as a trigger, literally resulting in using new dimensions in our mobile applications – some uses include gestures, orientation-dependent UI, and presence…”

This is very cool – using the dimension of space, and movement for mobile applications – this is literally a new dimension of sensory input for mobile applications… Click on the link above and watch the video clip, then extrapolate from that… Pretty awesome…

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