Video Demo: Nokia N95 has a built in accelerometer
Posted by Stefan on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 1:48 pm under Nokia
To many people’s surprise, myself included, the Nokia N95 has a built in accelerometer. Not only has it not gone used, but the thing is incredibly accurate. Have a Nokia N95? Grab this sisx file and give it a try for yourself. Mark from The Nokia Blog shot a video demoing the application:
How many other Nokia devices shipped with an accelerometer that we don’t know about? Why is Nokia only telling us about this now? Will developers be able to utilize this functionality in the future? We just have to wait and see.
October 31st, 2007 at 2:42 pm
Well, I think what we did know is that N95 auto-rotates pictures and that it must be based on some kind of a sensor. What is true is that the function is under utilized. Wonder if it could be that Nokia is sorta field testing these sensors with N95, so that they have more experience when they start using them in the TS S60s (and S60 in general) in the future?
October 31st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
It’s what (sometimes) rotates the pictures the right way.
October 31st, 2007 at 6:10 pm
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October 31st, 2007 at 6:46 pm
Perhaps Nokia didn’t think they’d got the tech right therefore they decided it was easier to leave in than take out before they started to manufacter N95s en mass. Could explain why it was an undocumented and (so far) unsupported feature. Anyone checked the FCC site?
Hmm, ‘Point & Find’ and augmented reality possible with current N95s?
November 1st, 2007 at 1:17 am
Is this the original N95?
N95-1?
November 1st, 2007 at 4:59 am
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November 1st, 2007 at 6:46 am
Retile, I believe it works with the original N95. I don’t have one so can’t vouch for it myself.
November 1st, 2007 at 6:58 am
Again, it is not completely undocumented/used. It does rotate the pics automatically (at times messes it up, i.e. when one e.g. takes a pic down from a balkony or something).
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November 2nd, 2007 at 7:35 am
http://mosh.nokia.com/content/3DF309C424BBAC1EE040050AEE043D90
Shake control, baby.
November 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 am
Who else thought that this might make an interesting pointer option for S60 devices?
Tilt and click - one hand - no touch.
November 4th, 2007 at 6:04 am
It relly does work tryed it my self on my n95
here is the app for you who wish to try it
(thougt it was fake at first)
http://research.nokia.com/files/MovingBall_Example.sisx
November 4th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
So it should work on ALL the N95’s, right? 1, 2, and 3?
November 5th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Iwould think so i got one of the first in sweden
November 8th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
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November 15th, 2007 at 11:40 am
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