It should be reasonably easy to tell them apart. Knocking the phone should give a sharp peak acceleration with greater magnitude than you would get from walking. We'll only find out by trying it though ;-)
On Friday 12 October 2007, ROULLAND bruno wrote: > Hello, this idea could be great, > but this option could shut up the phone when you walk,no ? > > 2007/10/12, Dietz Proepper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The following scenario, you carry your phone in some pocket. Now it > > rings, but you want it to get quiet quickly. What happens? You start > > digging for your phone, struggle for the "get quiet" button. Wouldn't it > > be more comfortable to simply knock at the pocket (and therefore the > > phone), detect the acceleration of the shock and shut off the bell? I > > don't have a Neo to try, but if the accelerometer is sensible enough to > > realize such an event, it should be quite easy to implement I think. > > If that works, making "knocking the phone" some kind of input event might > > be the next logical step... _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
