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Video Demo: Nokia N95 has a built in accelerometer

Categories: Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 at 1:48 PM

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.

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  • Viipottaja

    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?

  • Ze Stuart

    It’s what (sometimes) rotates the pictures the right way. :razz:

  • Anthony

    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?

  • Reptile

    Is this the original N95?
    N95-1?

  • Anthony

    Retile, I believe it works with the original N95. I don’t have one so can’t vouch for it myself.

  • Viipottaja

    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).

  • Brian

    Who else thought that this might make an interesting pointer option for S60 devices?
    Tilt and click – one hand – no touch.

  • Reptile

    So it should work on ALL the N95′s, right? 1, 2, and 3?

  • jonas

    Iwould think so i got one of the first in sweden