Motion-Sensing Comes To Mobile Phones

This could be an interesting way to create new mobile user interfaces:

MOTION-SENSING COMES TO MOBILE PHONES.

Apparently the wii-technology that allows to translate real physical motion into a game will be available for mobile phones. The article states that all tier 1 device manufacturers are working on integrating this technology (not sure what the cost factor is, but as these features go it is likely to expect them only in the high-end flagship devices).

Moving a device up, down, left, right could all be translated into browsing behaviour - which of course might make scrolling a lot easier.

The iPhone will apparently be the first-to-market, with the following implementation:

"The iPhone, set to debut in June on AT&T's wireless network, detects when the device is rotated, so it can tell whether to display what's on the screen in portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) format. That allows the user to determine which format is best for viewing whatever is on the screen, be it a Web page, video or photo. The phone also can detect when it's being lifted to the ear, and responds by immediately turning off the display light to save power and preventing changes to the display image due to inadvertent contact with the touch-sensitive screen. The system restores screen power when the iPhone is moved away from the ear."