Extend the orientation conditions to support standing up (vertical orientation)
currently the orientation conditions are "face up" or "face down".
I'd quite like a condition for when the phone is standing up vertically. This would help when using it in the car as a sat-nav unit.
gordon byers
shared this idea
Completely vertical is a difficult position for a user to achieve. Face up and face down are easy, because the phone is just placed flat on a table.
For the real underlying request for detecting when the phone is in a car, I think the best solution is a car dock for Android 2.0 devices. (This might require buying a new phone like the Droid or Nexus One :).
6 comments
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simon.lewis1979
commented
Can we revisit this one... It would be great to use something like this so Locale detects when it's in my pocket (i.e. vertical)... There would be 1000 things I could use such a condition for...
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simon.lewis1979
commented
an orientation condition would be completely useless to detect if the phone is in the car, as the phone's g-sensors are affected by acceleration and turning... you'd find every time you turned a corner or accelerated/stopped that the condition would be lost.
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gordon byers
commented
Any update on this one..... I can't imagine extending the condition would be a complete ballache.
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gordon byers
commented
Completely vertical.
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inventorfaq
commented
Calibrate the orientation of the phone in the pos. X and use it as situation cond. Hope this is useful for car use.
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AdminCarter
(Admin, two forty four a.m.)
commented
Do you mean completely vertical (perpendicular to the ground)? Or at an angle?
