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Video: Hacker clones Sony Ericsson W580i shake funtion to Nokia N95

Categories: Sony Ericsson
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 9:36 PM

The Sony Ericsson W580i has a gimmicky feature that enables you to shake the device to change track. Someone, and I’m trying to score more details on the guy, copied that functionality to the Nokia N95 which we just found out recently has a full blown accelerometer inside.

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Vivek Singh

    He seems to be shaking that N95 very violently! :D

    That accelerometer is getting more and more interesting with each passing day.

  • MAC

    If you notice, he has an E51 on the left side of his desk, so he’s not just some random coder :wink:

  • Tom

    Good eyes Mac :mrgreen:

  • Barry

    Cool stuff and nice humour from the guys. I hope to see more third party apps make use of this function in the N95.

  • touzeen

    looks like hes wrote a completly new media player…the layout is different

  • peedro

    touzeen; It’s the standard music player. The skin is just different.

    :cool: