Thursday, January 13, 2005
Off-Board Navigation: Samsung mobile w/ accelerometer
Samsung's newly launched mobile phone (SCH-S310) come with a 3D movement recognition technology - it features an ‘accelerometer’, which monitors and calculate movements of the mobile phone in real time.
Samsung SCH-S310 with accelerometer
Forget all the spew about using this for a user interface. A lot of people I know can't even park a call without messing it up. The best use for this is for vehicle navigation. Car navi systems are so good because in addition to the GPS they have gyro, speed pulse, and wheel sensor inpouts to provide additional data to the system beyond GPS on acceleration, speed, and turn radius.
So the real Q is can anyone use this to provide the first self-contained phone navi that can compete with an on-board unit.
Samsung SCH-S310 with accelerometer
Forget all the spew about using this for a user interface. A lot of people I know can't even park a call without messing it up. The best use for this is for vehicle navigation. Car navi systems are so good because in addition to the GPS they have gyro, speed pulse, and wheel sensor inpouts to provide additional data to the system beyond GPS on acceleration, speed, and turn radius.
So the real Q is can anyone use this to provide the first self-contained phone navi that can compete with an on-board unit.
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Yeah, I didn't see a use case anywhere in the announcement that made me excited. "Move your phone 6 inches above your head at a velocity of 5 feet a second to launch the wap browser" ??!
I don't know details about hardware manufacturers for mobile-phone sized gyro and compasses, etc, but they do exist. At $5/phone x 5,000,000 phones it gets expensive to justify.
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I don't know details about hardware manufacturers for mobile-phone sized gyro and compasses, etc, but they do exist. At $5/phone x 5,000,000 phones it gets expensive to justify.
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