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Already reverse engineered: SDK of tilt sensor in HTC Touch Diamond July 09, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Unfortunately HTC does not understand that they should have released API/SDK for tilt sensor to developers, so that more tilt-aware applications could be created - than just HTC's own Teeter! The more such applications exist, the higher are chances that people will want to buy HTC Touch Diamond and HTC'c next phones with tilt sensor like HTC Touch Pro, etc. ... Fortunately community of Windows Mobile fans is pro-active and they have already reverse engineered this tilt SDK so that now everybody can use it! Here is a video demonstration of a non-HTC test-application: (to see more our videos about Windows Mobile, visit www.youtube.com/msmobilesdotcom) See also:
Conclusion: developers now can react to orientation events or developers can poll 3 values of tilt in each axis (X/Y/Z) so while this sensor is not extremely accurate (after all it is just a phone and not some professional tilt measurement device) indeed at last it is possible for all developers to extend their existing software to tilt sensor support! Now developers can also start creating wholly new applications that would use tilt sensor! For starters: an application running in background, that scrolls the cursor up/down upon tilting the device up/down would be useful for many applications like Internet browsers, Word, PDF viewer, etc. ... but now only imagination is the limit! Credit: Joel Ivory Johnson.  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later)
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