All the leading mobile phone firms are gearing up to load their next gen handsets with advanced motion sensor technology, according to sources in the Far East.
The DigiTimes says that Apple, Sony Ericsson, Nokia, LG, Samsung and Motorola are all expected to include MEMS gyroscopes in 2009. What’s that, we hear you cry. Well, it’s the same tech that will feature in Nintendo’s ultra-sensitive Wii MotionPlus device, enabling gamers’ real time actions to be rendered identically on-screen.
While that doesn’t mean mobiles are going to become as motion sensitive as Wii Remotes, it does suggest they’re going to get a lot smarter than they are presently. Currently mobiles use basic accelerometers to determine their orientation, but a MEMS gyroscope would increase accuracy even further.
Via Pocket-Lint and DigiTimes
