My Nokia N95 works fairly well. They don't do too much with it, mainly just adjust the backlighting to conserve a little more battery.
To agree with Mickey, just because the hardware can do something (that may seem cool at the time) doesn't mean that it should be done. But on the flip side, not having the hardware being capable of something completely eliminates any possibilities. So, a light (or proximity) sensor could be a good addition to the next hardware rev, but just don't go crazy trying to make use of it. -----Original Message----- From: Michael 'Mickey' Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: List for Openmoko community discussion <community@lists.openmoko.org> To: List for Openmoko community discussion <community@lists.openmoko.org> Subject: Re: Wish list for future Freerunner Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:14:29 +0100 On Saturday 12 April 2008 18:46:16 Ron K. Jeffries wrote: > Next significant iteration of Freerunner > should include light sensor. Actually I have yet to see a device where a light sensor does not get in the way and eventually annoying a lot. This seems very hard to get right (both on the older iPAQs and the N8xx it's barely usable). > My understanding > is that's one part of iPhone secret sauce for intelligently > dimming LCD while phone is held up to user's ear. IIRC they're using a proximity sensor rather than a light sensor. :M: _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
