Thread: N900 Specifications
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2009-09-15 , 00:46
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Originally Posted by texaslabrat View Post
Cool..good to know...and as I suspected they are pretty big. You would need 3 of them for 3-axis sensing and every cubic millimeter you devote to a new gadget is a cubic millimeter less battery volume.
The dual-axis gyro IDG-2000 will be released in October and is 4x4x0.9mm, so about the same size of the thinnest 3-axis accelerometer (the volume ratio is 1.28). I don't know the OEM price. The IDG-1215 was $20 per unit (but per thousands, the price should be much lower). So, I don't think it would really be expensive.

Originally Posted by texaslabrat View Post
So, now we get back to the phone world. Exactly what is it that you hope that your phone could do with a gyroscope that can not be accomplished with the already included accelerometer setup?
Smartphones are not just phones. They have cameras. And it has been said that gyros help image stabilization.
 

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