Eagle eyed James has spotted that the Nokia N95 detects whether photos are snapped in portrait or landscape mode - it seems the device has a level sensor! Which begs the question why the general interface and other apps don't use this, of course..... Still, pretty cool.
Read on in the full article.
Well, it seems like AAS forum members already detected this in February:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/forum//forum/thread/56223/#post298324&highlight=sensor#post298324
And I think was already first implemented in the N90 a long time ago (turn on the N90 view finder and rotate your phone to see the image stay put/level).
Can't believe I hadn't noticed that before. I did wonder why I wasn't rotating images so much...
Sometimes the best implementations of new technology are invisible; you don't even notice it is there. 😉 I wish it was true for more things (that they just work smoothly and effortlessly from the user's point of view).
N93i does also, but only when you view the pics through TV.
It's there in the exif data though.
Technology should mean "make things easier". N70 haves a similar picture rotation: if you press the joystick, the picture is taken landscape, if you press the camera button on the right side of the keyboard the picture is rotated to portrait.
Thats all nice and dandy, but steve please easy with the "eat your heart out iphone" type gestures or you might be seen as a, dare i say it...."fanboy!!" 😮 (cue horrific music). I know you aren't, and you appreciate all forms of good technology. I'm no fan of the hype of the iphone, but the mac cultists are a very violent bunch and i don't want to see one of AAS MVP VIP get hurt.
Peace out!:icon14:
Mac cultist are like Jehovah's witnesses.
N/A wrote:Sometimes the best implementations of new technology are invisible; you don't even notice it is there. 😉 I wish it was true for more things (that they just work smoothly and effortlessly from the user's point of view).
Absolutely right. Its one of those really good features that you only notice when its not there 😊
I think this opens up huge possibilities. Somewhere a diligent hack will be investigating linking this sensor to the landscape mode which is already triggered by sliding to the media keys; a feature which works brilliantly IMHO. For internet browsing, a rotating landscape/portrait layout would be fantastic! Anyone know of such a project/hack?
Didn't you hear that iPhone also does this??? Just go thru Mr. Jobs' video again.
Who's borrowing whose ideas [patents] - only future will tell.
Dear Unregistered, perhaps you missed that the point is that it has been in phones a couple of years before the iPhone was even announced (and it still is a few months from being available).