NTT DoCoMo's liquid-inspired charge indicator

We have a hard enough time holding it between bathroom breaks as it is without being taunted by sloshing water on our phones, but we have to admit, it's pretty darn nifty nonetheless. It seems NEC's N702iS for NTT DoCoMo has a motion sensor that detects tilt, affecting the "liquid" inside the display appropriately. As battery level drops, so does the level of the liquid. Whimsical, yes, but when you're technologically dominating every other carrier in the world, we think you're afforded that luxury.

[Via SlashPhone]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2006 2:56PM]

seasick or mobilesick ? ;^/

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2006 4:52PM]

thats totally metal. hopefully we'll see similar new eyecandy on state-side phones.

[Brian from Texas Posted Aug 24th 2006 5:49PM]

Wishfull thinking. We'll never see that here.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 24th 2006 7:01PM]

I don't even care if it has any other features, I would buy it JUST for that. Genius!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2006 9:36AM]

"...Whimsical, yes, but when you're technologically dominating every other carrier in the world, we think you're afforded that luxury..."

then is it taunting? ; )

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2006 2:45PM]

"thats totally metal"? Is "metal" the new "phat, cool, tight, bad, etc." nowadays?

[(Unverified) Posted Sep 6th 2006 12:26PM]

Hopefully the tilt sensor is also used for rotating images from the camera's phone. If other manufacturers start caring about the camera part of the phone, then maybe such sensors will become common even in phones for Europe and the US.