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Originally Posted by jolouis View Post
If nobody else has one yet this would probably be a pretty easy app to build; not having an N900 I couldn't test it, but in theory it's easy. The bigger question would be about practicality:
1) Doesn't the screen come on when you press it anyways? Unless you've got it locked? Or is that not the case on the N900 (that's how the old N8x0's worked)
2) Danger would be having the phone in your pant pocket and moving too fast/quickly would cause screen to come on as well which would be bad (the phone doesn't know when you "pick it up", it only knows "when it's been moved with a certain amount of force in a certain direction"...

As I said I don't have one to test with but... thoughts?
The key would be tying the proximity sensor to the accelerometer so that this doesn't happen.

Device moves in pocket, but the proximity sensor senses an object within a certain amt of inches and it won't come on. No sensing but object moves and then it comes on.

Really makes for a simple gesture and works alongside the phone-app activation one if you think about it.