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