idea for Neo 2nd generation: Accelerometer

[Gervais Mulongoy]

The Neo vibrates?

On 1/24/07, Tim Newsom <cephdon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Yeah.. I was using the accelerometer in my example to tell the program
> what the phone orientation was so that you could limit distance without
> having to touch the interface.  If you had it set up to run from a free
> external button, you could push it
> And orient the phone and point and the phone could vibrate a little when
> it found the answer.  Then you can look at the face to see what it was.
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 9:27, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 January 2007 17:04, Tim Newsom wrote:
> >>  For GeoPointing to work right, you would also need an electronic
> >> compass
> >>  module in the phone....
> >
> > I think that's actually the only thing you really need for it to work.
> > Not
> > sure how an accelerometer would help figuring out what direction the
> > phone
> > has?
> >
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