The Register takes a first look at the MyDevice, one of MyOrigo’s motion-controlled cellphones, which lets you navigate by tilting and moving the phone in different directions:
Dial up a page and MyDevice displays its top-left hand corner. Tilting the device to the right scrolls over to the top-right hand corner; tilt it in another direction and the page flows past accordingly. It’s a little odd at first, but it works. And it’s far better than every other PDA or cellphone based browser since you don’t have to press buttons or tap and hold with a stylus to move around the page…The screen’s touch-sensitivity allows MyDevice to dispense with a keyboard – up pops a virtual QWERTY layout or numeric pad whenever you need one or t’other. And you can navigate through the UI by touching on-screen panels too. It’s more fun – and quicker – to use motion control. MyDevice’s main screen lists the apps as a page of tiles. Tilting the device highlights the next tile in the direction of the tilt, scrolling if necessary. A flick of the wrist and the button is ‘pressed’ and you’re on to the next screen.
The phone can also automatically switch from portrait to landscape mode just by being moved from a vertical to a horizontal position. The MyDevice, which will initially run on GSM/GPRS networks, also has a built-in digital camera, and should be out in Europe by December, and Asia and the US next year.
