I like the idea - especially because I always have full pockets and it takes hours to fish the phone out ;) Imho it should be possible to implement, a knock should give a peak you can't reach while walking and even if it happens, it shouldn't be that worse.
2007/10/14, Ortwin Regel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This doesn't work well because the screen moves with the phone. So if you > want to scroll right fast, you'll have trouble to see what's going on on the > screen. Scrolling should rather be done on the touchscreen because that > works really well. However, dragging the map/website as if it was physical > is too slow in most cases. Increasing scrolling velocity by the distance > from the initial touchpoint would probably be a good idea but adjustable > scrolling speed would be great already. Instead of scrolling one screen far > when I move my finger once across the screen, I want to scroll four screens > so that I get where I want quicker. Someone else might only want to scroll > one screen. > Kinetic scrolling can extend this and look/feel awesome but also be very > annoying so it should probably be optional. > > Now what do we do with the accelerometer? I like the zooming idea. It > shouldn't require a hardware button press because those are kind of hard to > press. Touching the screen should be enough and it would mean that you can > zoom and scroll at the same time and pretty intuitively. > > About the initial idea: Judging from my DS accelerometer (which is > different hardware but should be relatively similar), the sampling frequency > will probably be pretty high. I still doubt that you can reliably > differentiate between walking and hitting the phone. However, it might be > possible to shake it two or three times with a frequency faster than any > form of running and it should be possible to detect this. This probably > won't help you if the phone is hidden in a huge backpack. > It's also important to remember that the motion of picking up your phone > should not lead to denial of the call... ;) > > Ortwin > > > On 10/12/07, David Pottage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Friday 12 October 2007, Oliver wrote: > > > I've had similar ideas, but haven't posted them yet. Here's one: > > > > > > Imagine you're surfing the internet, or checking a map, or something > > like > > > that. We don't have a multi-touch screen, so we can't zoom out with > > our > > > fingers like iPhone users. Zooming out, though, is something we really > > > should be able to do. So just hold a hardware button and bring the > > phone > > > closer to your face! > > > > > > The site/image should be shrunk in such a way that you'll think it is > > > stationary "behind" the phone, and the phone screen is a window > > through > > > which you can view this image/site! When you've spotted something you > > want > > > to focus on, somewhere else on the page, don't scroll, just keep > > holding > > > the button bringing the phone/window down to that place. If you stop > > > holding the button, the image can either stay where it is, or go to > > it's > > > original zoom-level. > > > > > > Just imagine, if you think of the screen as a window, what incredibly > > fun > > > games you could develop for the phone! > > > > I think a better idea would be to think of the screen as a mirror that > > you are > > using to view a much larger page behind you. That way you can > > intuitively > > scroll both vertically and horizontally a large page or map by tilting > > the > > screen, and without using the touchscreen. (Which can be reserved for > > other > > functions). > > > > A lot of UI ideas here are coppied from other touch screen devices. > > That's > > fine where appropriate, but the Neo 1973 is the only phone with built in > > accelerometers, and I think we should make use of them where we can. We > > should not just copy the iPhone or whatever, that only uses it's > > accelerometer as a tilt sensor to make the display image the right way > > up. > > > > -- > > David Pottage > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenMoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenMoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > >
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