iPhone Overload or is it a Wii Killer in disquise
Ok, Ok The iPhone is really cool, the GUI could turn out be the most important development in mobile terminals since the invention of the 20ft phone cord.However it's not all rosy in the apple (walled) garden there are a few points that I see as kinda big negatives:
- It does not support 3G/UMTS
- There is no real keyboard (just a "soft" keyboard)
- No public SDK will be available.
The fact that it has an accelerometer is worthy of more thought. The blurb says the accelerometer is used just to detect automatically whether terminal is in landscape or potrait orientation. However I wonder what is the quality of the accelerometer data and if the data available to applications built on the OS-X. Just think if the resolution and sensitivity are good enough Wii type applications could be developed.
Anyone know any details about the iphone accelerometer? Who made it? What are the outputs?
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My guess would be that they are the same one as those found in the macbook - which means that the output would be acceleration (in 1/1000 of G) along x, y and z axis, and the quality would be quite high. The problem is thought that the iPhone will probably NOT allow installing 3rd party applications. I.e. those sensors will be useless - until someone finally hacks the phone ;-) Anyways, despite the iPhone hype: it's by far not the first mobile to include acceleration/tilt sensors: A snap-on accessory sensor shell for Nokia's 3220 has been available for some time. Also the Nokia 5500 has 3-axis tilt built-in. And in Asia there's a bunch of models that have them from Samsung, Pantech, and a few other manufacturers as well. They're using them for game control, simple gesture recognition, MP3 player control and so on. Can't say much about openess of the APIs though - my only practical experience is on the N3220. This one has a Java API, but it's only accessible for certified applications, which is somewhat limiting...
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