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We all know mobile gaming is set for an explosive growth in the coming years. Sony will most certainly make the PSP phone at some point in the future, Nokia is preparing to launch the next generation of NGage platform and Samsung? Well, the Korean giant is also eyeing this potentially very lucrative market. Their latest patent filing called “Joystick apparatus for mobile terminal” describes a new way of controlling games on the phone.
According to Samsung, playing with numeric keypad just doesn’t do the job. Their patent reveals a new kind of game control, which involves converting of the lower part of the clamshell phone into a joystick. It may sound simple, but it actually requires a very complex mechanism consisting of multiple magnets and Hall effect integrated circuits to capture 3D movements of a joystick and turn them into the game control signals.
Sounds interesting as far as I can tell. Now we just have to wait for Samsung to bring this technology to the market. C’mon guys, hurry up!
[Via: Unwired View]
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
