Some ideas for the accelerometer

[Al Johnson]

It should be reasonably easy to tell them apart. Knocking the phone should 
give a sharp peak acceleration with greater magnitude than you would get from 
walking. We'll only find out by trying it though ;-)

On Friday 12 October 2007, ROULLAND bruno wrote:
> Hello, this idea could be great,
> but this option could shut up the phone when you walk,no ?
>
> 2007/10/12, Dietz Proepper <dietz.openmoko at rotfl.franken.de>:

> > The following scenario, you carry your phone in some pocket. Now it
> > rings, but you want it to get quiet quickly. What happens? You start
> > digging for your phone, struggle for the "get quiet" button. Wouldn't it
> > be more comfortable to simply knock at the pocket (and therefore the
> > phone), detect the acceleration of the shock and shut off the bell? I
> > don't have a Neo to try, but if the accelerometer is sensible enough to
> > realize such an event, it should be quite easy to implement I think.
> > If that works, making "knocking the phone" some kind of input event might
> > be the next logical step...