Solid Mobile Phone: STMicroelectronics’ MEMS Enables Motion Sensing

one of the world's leading semiconductor companies and the number one
supplier of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) motion-sensing
chips for consumer and portable applications, has announced that its
LIS302DL 3-axis accelerometer is being used by Openmoko, Inc to
provide motion-sensing functions in Openmoko's Neo Freerunner
LINUX-based mobile open platform.

OpenmokoTM is a project dedicated to delivering mobile phones with an
open source software stack. The Company is currently selling the Neo
FreeRunner phone to advanced users and application developers.

"ST's accelerometers, such as the LIS302DL, and gyroscopes, such as
the LY530AL, are widely used to enable advanced motion-sensing
functions, such as portrait/ landscape rotation, pedometer, and menu
browsing and now the Open Source community will be able to create even
more new applications that exploit our motion-sensing technology,"
said Benedetto Vigna, General Manager of ST's MEMS and Sensors,
Transceivers and Healthcare division. "This confirms our leadership in
this exciting field and will further strengthen our position in
handsets and mobile applications."

The Neo Freerunner is a GSM tri-band mobile phone with a VGA touch
screen, 2D/3D graphics acceleration, 256 Mbytes of NAND Flash memory,
Wi-Fi, AGPS, and Bluetooth 2.0, as well as 3-axis motion sensing. The
Openmoko GNU/Linux-based software stack is 100% FOSS (Free Open Source
Software), supported by GNU/Linux development tools.