you guys might see the appeal of this and i try to keep an open mind but i really can't see a need for this honestly. accelerometers in phones are a pretty novel idea to me anyway. sure it's nice if the phone knows where it is in space (like that Touch Pro 2 going to speakerphone when it's on it's face) but shaking and stuff for features is a gimmick and i really cant take it seriously. i have a Wii that i dont play because they dont make regular games for it anymore and i never use the motion controls in my PS3. im still scratching my head at the Nano Chromatic with shake to change songs for this exact reason. there are better ideas out there than this.
I find accelerometers essentials in my smartphones (i own an HTC touch HD and a Samsung Omnia) and the lack of one on SE experia X1 has been one of the reasons of its failure. When you wrowse the web , or write a text I got used that if I turn the phone to horizontal position the screen follows it, and if I look at a pic in portrait or landscape mode I just have to turn the phone to make it fit the display. I often use google in portrait position to find a video or a TV program I want to see but then , when the movie starts, I just turn the phone and see it in landscape mode. Same when I shoot pictures or videos. The Omnia has even a "digiframe with soundtrack " application: imagine that in portrait mode! I would never again buy a phone without an accelerometer.
As for integrating one in a SIM card, yeah, that's silly, since if a phone lacks one it will also lack the applications and programs that make use of it ; and if it includes these apps it would surely also have one inbuilt.
exactly. i have no problem with a phone knowing where it is in space and being able to adjust to how you have it oriented (it's actually quite ingenious) but when you get into shaking and specific gestures to activate features, it gets pretty gimmicky in my opinion. things like that end up being stuff i think is cool for like 3 days then i just go back to the old way. plus like you said, if phones add this SIM card, they also have to add apps to the phone to support the accelerometer or it's pointless. and if the manufacturers are adding them, then they could have just added the accelerometer in the device in the first place.
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you guys might see the appeal of this and i try to keep an open mind but i really can't see a need for this honestly. accelerometers in phones are a pretty novel idea to me anyway. sure it's nice if the phone knows where it is in space (like that Touch Pro 2 going to speakerphone when it's on it's face) but shaking and stuff for features is a gimmick and i really cant take it seriously. i have a Wii that i dont play because they dont make regular games for it anymore and i never use the motion controls in my PS3. im still scratching my head at the Nano Chromatic with shake to change songs for this exact reason. there are better ideas out there than this.
I find accelerometers essentials in my smartphones (i own an HTC touch HD and a Samsung Omnia) and the lack of one on SE experia X1 has been one of the reasons of its failure.
When you wrowse the web , or write a text I got used that if I turn the phone to horizontal position the screen follows it, and if I look at a pic in portrait or landscape mode I just have to turn the phone to make it fit the display.
I often use google in portrait position to find a video or a TV program I want to see but then , when the movie starts, I just turn the phone and see it in landscape mode.
Same when I shoot pictures or videos.
The Omnia has even a "digiframe with soundtrack " application: imagine that in portrait mode!
I would never again buy a phone without an accelerometer.
As for integrating one in a SIM card, yeah, that's silly, since if a phone lacks one it will also lack the applications and programs that make use of it ; and if it includes these apps it would surely also have one inbuilt.
exactly. i have no problem with a phone knowing where it is in space and being able to adjust to how you have it oriented (it's actually quite ingenious) but when you get into shaking and specific gestures to activate features, it gets pretty gimmicky in my opinion. things like that end up being stuff i think is cool for like 3 days then i just go back to the old way. plus like you said, if phones add this SIM card, they also have to add apps to the phone to support the accelerometer or it's pointless. and if the manufacturers are adding them, then they could have just added the accelerometer in the device in the first place.