Are there any apps to simulate iphone's automatic screen rotation?

Procter · #1 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 12:09 PM

From the commercial, it seems that with iphone, you don't need to click any button to switch the screen layout between portrait mode and standard mode. You can simply rotate the phone and the screen mode will switch with it.

Are there any apps out to simulate this function on Touch or any PPC?

Thanks.

Keir333 · #2 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 12:20 PM

It's my understanding that there is a sensor in the iphone that is able to tell the direction that the phone is being held. Without a similar sensor in the Touch or the Mogul, it wouldn't be possible to achieve this.

cjrusso · #3 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 12:28 PM

no. the iphone has a device in it that can recognize how you hold the phone. its imposable to do this with the touch. i did read a thread saying something about the camera and doing something with that but im not sure where.

Zyphlin · #4 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 12:32 PM

The thread basically said that in theory you could make a program that would use the camera attached to the Touch to check for changes in the field of vision and adjust the screen based on that, but it would be incredibly battery draining as your camera would need to be running at all times.

Keyone · #5 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 01:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Procter

From the commercial, it seems that with iphone, you don't need to click any button to switch the screen layout between portrait mode and standard mode. You can simply rotate the phone and the screen mode will switch with it.

Are there any apps out to simulate this function on Touch or any PPC?

Thanks.

The iPhone's screen rotation is hardware based - accelerometer.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zyphlin

The thread basically said that in theory you could make a program that would use the camera attached to the Touch to check for changes in the field of vision and adjust the screen based on that, but it would be incredibly battery draining as your camera would need to be running at all times.

Whereever that thread is - anything is possible in "theory". The practicality of using the camera for that kind of operation is (I'd say) non-existent. Not only would the camera have to be on at all times, but it would also have to be able to constantly recognize the environment and check whether an object is sideways. If I were to turn my entire body, the image would blur, just like if I were to rotate the phone..... oh there's so much wrong with this...too much to say....

Insoc · #6 (**permalink**) 12-14-2007, 04:38 PM

The answer is NO...

reza miah · #7 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 11:24 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAsMTfpGVwk

How does this guy do it then?

Schoolbus74 · #8 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 11:27 PM

If you listen to it he says he has the camera button mapped to switch to landscape mode.

**D/\SH** · #9 (**permalink**) 01-21-2008, 11:28 PM

lol thats my video i used the camera button and mapped it to change the rotation of the screen. its not magic sorry

OrionSX · #10 (**permalink**) 01-22-2008, 12:02 AM

Errr... hate to burst your bubble... But if I remember right, I was reading somewhere that the whole "Camera Orientation" concept is going to be included in WM7... They wanted to compete with the iPhone without copying, so they came up with that idea. The idea is that the camera will be operated in a very-low-power state, at extraordinarily low resolution. Just enough for the device to tell when its flipped.