Exclusive - Touch-Free Scrolling on Instinct's Browser

I have been testing this for a few weeks now and I am happy to report that this UNDOCUMENTED trick is even better than the documented "press camera button for scrolling" in some cases.

Here's is how the documented scrolling/panning works. You can press the camera button on any web page in Sprint Instinct's browser and move/tilt your phone and the web page will pan and scroll as if you were doing it by touching the screen.

This is a useful feature but it is a pain sometimes on big sites because you just have to hold the camera button pressed to scan the site. I found a little trick a couple of weeks ago and here it is:

Freedom from holding down the camera button

Here are the steps for Touch-Free Scrolling and Panning on Instinct's browser:

• This requires enough light in the room to create a good background for Instinct's camera.
• Just load your webpage as usual in Sprint Instinct's web browser.
• Make sure to wait until the page load is complete (I know, I know, browser is slow in displaying some complex web pages)
• Double click the camera button (on the side of phone) fairly quickly and let go of the camera button. Wait for a couple of seconds.
• Now you will notice that your browser is in camera panning/scrolling mode. This is indicated by the arrows on the top right of the screen.
• Now just tilt your phone up/down and sideways and you will see that you can scroll and pan on the website just by tilting/moving your phone. You don't have to hold the camera button down!
• You can disable this anytime by single clicking the camera button.

NOTE:

• This somehow gets deactivated after some time and you have to reactivate it by double clicking the camera but it gives you plenty of time to scan the web page.
• It takes a little getting used to in controlling the motion and is not perfect.

Technology Used: RealEyes3D

SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 08, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) ----Realeyes3D, a pioneer in mobile imaging applications and services for camera phones, and a trusted player in mobile document scanning with the award-winning Qipit service, today announced that its camera-based motion browsing technology ("tilt navigation") has been incorporated into the Samsung Instinct, Sprint Nextel's new smart phone now selling out in stores in the U.S. Motion browsing lets users tilt their phone to pan a webpage before clicking on a desired link.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/story/markets/industries/telecom/teaming-touch-tilt-realeyesd-powers-motion-based-navigation-samsung-instinct/