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New cellphone controlled by movement

19 January 2005

Slamming the phone down on people just got even easier. A deft shake of a new cellphone made by Samsung of Korea will end calls, dial a frequently used number or delete the text message you just read. Accelerometers built into the SCH-S310 model detect motion in three dimensions and convert it into any command the user specifies.

Phone numbers can be dialled by tracing out digits in thin air, while shaking the phone up and down ends a call or deletes a text message. A sharp move to the right or left skips the inbuilt MP3 music player forward…

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