On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:00 +0100, Ortwin Regel wrote:
> The only situation where I can see the
> accelerometer being really useful is where Apple is using it: For
> changing the screen orientation of things according to how you hold
> the phone.

An accelerometer is a nice to have for navigation too. When losing the
GPS signal, i.e. in a tunnel, you can go on doing dead reckoning.

And it helps to get the vector map data coordinated with the GPS
position. 


_______________________________________________
OpenMoko community mailing list
community@lists.openmoko.org
https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Reply via email to