Anybody got chance to play with the new 6axis motion sensor?

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This is the biggest motivation on my side to buy Vibrant to be frank. I am a casual developer and would like to write some acc+gyro related application on my own phone.

As far as I know, Vibrant has 6 axis motion sensor, which should be 3 axis acc + 3 axis Gyro if I didn't misunderstand it. However, I can not get any information from internet about what's the model the sensor is, and I'm not sure if this sensor is of exact function as acc+gyro. So if anybody happened to know such kind of information, please share it, my purchase decision would be definitely based on this.

Thanks!

If I remember correctly it is actually a 6-axis accelerometer. It gives you angular acceleration instead of angular velocity, which has it's goods and it's bads.

Thanks Lutin

I'm not sure if it's Gyro or not. There are two posts can be referred

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=712303
http://fonefrenzy.com/2010/06/28/sam...-the-iphone-4/

Based on what I saw, I guess most people are still confused about its type. This is why I was wondering if anybody knows the actual model by chance

There's no gyroscope in Vibrant, Captivate, Fascinate, Epic,...
just triaxial accelerometer from Bosch and triaxial geomagnetic sensor from Yamaha

Exactly the same sensor set with Galaxy S UK and Asian version.

Are you sure? This is totally different from what them claimed. They said they have something other than just digital compass

Originally Posted by cnbuff410

Are you sure? This is totally different from what them claimed. They said they have something other than just digital compass

100%, sir.
I own both Galaxy S UK and Vibrant
I used some different software and *#*#0*#*#* code to check on both devices. I'm not surprised to realize that there's no gyroscope.

But the Yamaha geomagnetic is superior to almost every smart phones on the market right now (bi-axis). It's a tri-axis sensor.
I suppose that the combination of tri-axis geomagnetic sensor and tri-axis acceleration sensor will be equal to gyros + accele in iphone 4

Sorry for my English.

Originally Posted by bl4ckdr4g00n

100%, sir.
I own both Galaxy S UK and Vibrant
I used some different software and *#*#0*#*#* code to check on both devices. I'm not surprised to realize that there's no gyroscope.

But the Yamaha geomagnetic is superior to almost every smart phones on the market right now (bi-axis). It's a tri-axis sensor.
I suppose that the combination of tri-axis geomagnetic sensor and tri-axis acceleration sensor will be equal to gyros + accele in iphone 4

Sorry for my English.

thanks man, you saved me a lot of time!

I played with one Vibrant today and yeah, it's magnetic sensor. But it performs basically the same as Gyro, just will be affected by the metal thing.

I have no idea how good it would be in real use and I am still thinking if I should give it a shot.