subject: Smartphone Accelerometer: Enhancing Users' Experience in Using Smart Phone Applications [print this page] Smartphone Accelerometer: Enhancing Users' Experience in Using Smart Phone Applications
Don't be surprised seeing smartphone users spending more time on the applications these phones afford rather than talking on these devices. Smartphones come with so many applications which extend their features and functionalities. After all these apps are the USP of smart phones. Some of these applications are built in with your device but there are hundreds of more applications that are readily available for download. Whether it is for iPhone or other smartphones, new and exciting applications are developed on a global scale thus offering the users a vast pool of utility and entertainment applications. And while developing these applications, a developer strives to take advantage of the features of these smart devices including the sophisticated multi touch screen as well as the accelerometer. By doing so users experience in using the application vastly improves.
The accelerometer is a feature in smart phones which makes it possible to rotate the display of the phone when you rotate the phone from portrait to landscape and from landscape to portrait. This means if you hold your phone in a normal position just as you hold other phones, the display it takes is portrait. It adjusts to landscape when the phone is rotated. In iPhone iTouch accelerometer makes possible better display and control in playing games, better readability and viewing angle during reading, listening to music, watching videos etc. These applications are developed in a way that they make use of the accelerometer for giving better experience to the users. The accelerometer is vastly leveraged by game applications. The wide screen not only gives a larger display for enhanced gaming experience but also afford more control touch buttons which intensifies a player's involvement in the game.
J2ME applications for other smartphones including 3G phones are also developed in similar fashions. A J2ME accelerometer allows users quick and easy use of applications. Likewise a 3G accelerometer senses the preferences of how a 3G smartphone user and adjust the display accordingly. It is not only the applications that have taken advantage of the accelerometer. Even smartphone websites are developed in an accelerometer friendly manner.
