A few weeks back we had covered the iFun that gave the humble iPhone Wii like abilities. The Gyro swing Golf Club is another worthy mention on the practical uses of a gyroscope inside modern day gadgets. Now a Taiwanese manufacturing news source claims that Nintendo's Wii-style advanced motion-sensing abilities and functionality is coming to the iPhone in 2009. Smartphones launched by Nokia, Samsung Electronics, Motorola, LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson - as well as Apple - are all expected to come with something called MEMS gyroscopes in 2009. With continuing efforts to reduce their production costs, makers will be able to turn out MEMS gyroscopes that will account for approximately only 3% of the entire production costs of smartphone manufacturing, the sources indicated. Handset vendors, which have already incorporated MEMS G-sensors into smartphones, will be more willing to add MEMS gyroscopes into their mobile devices once prices drop to more affordable levels.

The technology can be found in the Wii’s MotionPlus accessory that allows for sensing rotational motion as well as improving the overall motion sensing system. What does this mean for the iPhone? More intense Wii-like gaming and perhaps a new UI? We can only wait and watch the magic of the Wii take the mobile world by storm.

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