Vlog: Nokia N95 Accelerometer Demonstration

October 31st, 2007 • Mark Guim • Filed Under •

I made a short video showing the Nokia N95’s accelerometer. After months of owning the Nokia N95, I’m surprised this phone had it! You might be familiar with this technology from watching the iPhone commercials where the screen automatically changes when you hold it sideways. This is such a cool feature, I don’t understand why Nokia haven’t fully integrated it with the phone yet. Check out the video.

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Video Formats: M4V (Original 640×480 resolution), MP4 (download on your Nseries phone), or YouTube.

Testing the accelerometer comes in the form of MovingBall, a software plug-in developed by Nokia. It does nothing else other than move the ball when you tilt the phone. I’m really surprised how responsive it is. It also knows when you shake the phone.

Download MovingBall if you want to try it out yourself.

A program that will take advantage of this technology is RotateMe 2.0 which should be coming out soon. Zach from Symbian in Motion expects RotateMe 2.0 at the end of November. It will add an auto-rotate feature ‘a la iPhone’ that will be compatible only with the Nokia N95.

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  • adolfinoneto
    fiz a instalação mas nao funcionou. No final o celular N95 deu a mensagem certificado expirado.

    O que fazer entao?
  • n96 owner
    it works on n96 ?
  • spider-man
    that's great Matty thanks look forward to hearing from you - particularly rockNscroll
  • Matty
    well 1st u need the accelermoter..of corse, but then i searched for the apps on a website called mosh, if uve not heard of it then google it, its like a search engine for phones. i just dowloaded a few versions of each app and got them signed using a program called GenialSIS which i found after spending hours looking for. once i had this i could send off for each app to be signed. also, if the nokmote interests you theres allways the RockNScroll app which bassicly does the same thing. i shall try findin the links to the correct apps and GenialSIS and when i do ill post them on here
  • spider-man
    Matty - on the off chance you're keeping track of new posts to this page, where and how did you get working versions of [in particular] nokmote and rotate me ?? cheers
  • Smasher
    The n78 us the best phone in the world without a Doubt ! Anyone know if i can get this Acellero gigga ma thingy on my phone....better hurry Up!
  • Matty
    I have the N95, ive got the accelerometer installed and i have the nokmote, rotate me, moving ball, lightsaber, flip silent and also shake sms app on my phone, i can visit any website i want, use IM with my email, play hundreds of songs, watch DVDs, record DVD quality videos and do anything i would use a computer for. gotta be the best thing out so far =P
  • Vend
    It will work on N82! I´ve tried!
  • Absolute Genius. Cheers.
  • NgocLuu
    Will it work on N82? Have anyone tried?
  • @Draven here's a lightsaber for your N95.
  • Can someone PLEASE write an application for the N95 and the accelerometer that mimics a Lightsaber?
  • mauri
    wow this is an impresive feature but it is also integrated in the n95 8gb? and if it was since the begining why nokia don't use it for a commercial or for publicity it would defenetly beat the iphoneand why they don't tell us!!!!!!
    the impresive thing is, what more can be integrated in that phone that we still don't know?
  • Mobile Accelerometer is the future of mobile apps, Its absolutely amazing what can be achieved with a few hours worth of designing. Check out this wallpaper with accelerometer feature, that Chris, our resident mobile developer and designer did for a bit of fun. you can download it for free at http://www.welovemobile.co.uk/blog/?p=119
    Cheers
  • Matty
    i put the acceleremoter on my phone, i now have the moving ball and lightsaber and spaceinvaders game, i cant wait to get the nokmote and rotate me signed and uploaded onto my N95
  • Check this and give me your impressions. Soon to be released!

    http://serk01.wordpress.com/software/pyaccelere...
  • Karlo Medallo
    @Zach Quote "...It seems even the Nokia developers who created the demo either couldn’t (or didn’t) code it well enough to accomodate both screen modes, or there is a bigger oversight in the phone’s design. I hope it’s not the latter!"

    Moving Ball Developers(Ole Kirkeby, Markus Kähäri and Ykä Huhtala) made a simple demo and hard coded the screen dimension as seen in the program's source code.

    Name : MovingBallAppView.cpp
    Author : Ole Kirkeby, Markus Kähäri and Ykä Huhtala
    Copyright : Copyright Nokia
    Description : Application view implementation

    ---snip---
    // CONSTANTS
    const TInt KScreenWidth = 240;
    const TInt KScreenHeight = 234;
    const TInt KScreenCenterX = KScreenWidth >> 1;
    const TInt KScreenCenterY = KScreenHeight >> 1;
    const TInt KBallRadius = 20; // average radius of ball, in pixels
    ---snip---

    from:
    http://research.nokia.com/files/MovingBall_Sour...
  • ro0s
    hi!! i have the same problem as joff!!
    and i really want it !! what can i do ??
  • Joff
    Feel a bit like a simpleton: i can't seem to get RotateMe to install on my N95 8gb, I've tried changing the application manager menu thingy to allow all applications not just signed ones but it comes up with a message saying "certificate error: contact application supplier" Has anyone else had this problem and how can i sort it? I really want RotateMe, it looks cool!
  • skelg
    i cant install any of these great apps on my n95. why? first i install the accelerometer plug-in then the rotate me v2.0 but it will say contact the author or something. can anyone help?
  • chop
    I love the rotateme and the nokmote is still in the developing stages( but its still great). The Flip Silent works wonders when i wanna be left alone at times lol. I dont know what the accelerometer's sole purpose was in the N95, but thank god for it.
  • RotateMe is rather cool too!

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  • I've blogged about the n95 accelerometer - some good applications available! I do wonder what the iPhone has to offer in the way of 'fun' applications / accelerometer!?
  • Chris
    Only recently got an N95. Also a new Mondeo with built in Bluetooth and they don't work together. Nokia say it's Fords problem. They even have a web poage about it. nokia.com/ford - see compatibility - No N95!!!

    Any suggestions guys. Like the Ford. Like the N95 don't want to change either but need phone and car to communicate.
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