Samsung Launches 3D Movement Recognition Phone

Shuttertalk reports that Samsung have launched the world's first phone equipped with a continuous 3D movement sensor. Movement sensors in mobile phones to date have been limited to slope calculations and applied to some games and bio-related features. The potential is there to do away with the need for complex keypads on mobile phones, MP3 players, digital cameras and other handheld products. Many functions will be controlled by movement instead of buttons.

I can see that already

[evilmeow]

*ring ring* Hello! Chen calling. I speak James please! No James here man... Oh! Is this left left right down left right up? What the...

Sorry I poked your eye out....

[spectrokid]

I was just trying to phone my girlfriend...

Tech Support Calls?

[Aurix]

But what happens when you're in the middle of a tech support call and you slap your hand on your head....? Does the phone know to hang up at this point?

Wrong number..

[flumps]

Man its bad enough that my phone randomly phones people in my pocket when I sit down, let alone when I'm walking along the road..

My phone's autolock doesn't always work so I don't really want to phone australia by mistake cause I just ran up a flight of stairs!

Oh dear, could be expensive

[zenst]

Phone: "I noticed your hand waving up and down, would you like me to conect you to a sex-chat hotline"
User: Puts his meat away, and turns phone recognition off.

Use-case scenarios!

[Dougie Cool]

1.
User: Hey, look at this!
* User turns around to show friend
User: Bugger. Just a sec.

2.
Executive 1: What if the user is trying to walk and use the phone at the same time? It is, after all, a mobile phone.
Executive 2: Oh yeah, you're right, it's a load of crap isn't it?

Of course, you can't expect the executives to think of problems with their ideas, because that would imply that they were fallible.

Re:Tech Support Calls?

[myom]

Mercifully, yes.

This brings old memories from the time when I was something of a mix between consultant and support technician. I got the worst of both worlds, but learned a few tricks how to end calls after some odd noises had occured. I came up with so many tricks and used them so frequently so I kept track of which idiot had been hung up using which method. (Ok, so customer_0643 I've already hung up using the "bringing a HDD demagnetizer close to the cell phone"-method, so I guess I just do the "gradually cover the phone mic with thumb, then turn off the phone" method)

Re:I can see that already

[cerberusss]

*up*
*down*
*up*
*down*
*up*
*down*
(Calling my girlfriend)
*up*
*down*
*up*
*down*

See the big picture

[DingerX]

You have a celphone with a Digital Camera, GPS, a 3D motion sensor, Bluetooth, a two-way radio, and a processor to handle all this plus some dumb games. That's just some shielding and fancy coding away from a guidance system, with optical target recognition, GPS, a backup Inertial Navigation System for areas where GPS is not available, celestial navigation system (just roll the camera over), and short- and medium- range radios. Put two on a drone and you'll get basic flight instruments as well. Now UAVs, Cruise Missiles, and Drug-smuggling drones are in the hands of anyone with a Verizon subscription!

"Cell phones"???

[greypilgrim]

What are these "Cell phones" you speak of? No seriously...I think all cell phones are the most useless invention ever invented, come on, we read /. , who would ever want to speak to us? I get maybe 1 phone call a month on my real phone, and that's usually a telemarketer. Definitely nothing to see here..

karma..

[digital.prion]

Now, even the retarded kids will have someone to clown!

sincerely,
[Zorro]

Crazy?

[CreatureComfort]

So now the crazy guy on the subway waving his arms around and talking to himself, is only just trying out his new phone?