Nokia adds police radar to handset

Police use radar guns to snare speeding drivers. Now Nokia has adapted the technology to improve the way people interact with mobile phones. The “active radar sensor” – nicknamed Mobile Radar by Nokia – is capable of measuring speed and direction of movement. The technology behind the sensor is a closely guarded secret, but …

[Tom Chiverton 1]

RF fields ?

Reminds me of a Theramin ...

[Ross Ryles]

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Unlikely to be theramin tech if it can work over more than a meter.

My guess would be LIDAR.

[Nicholas Wright]

Why?

See title.

[Wortel]

Interesting

Looks like the shell of an n95, unused chip features? my old n95 somehow developed a sense of how it is held after the second last update. rudimentary, but it does work.