Motorola Xoom Tablet to Feature a Barometer: Can Crowdsourced Weather Sensor Services be Far Behind?

We’ve come a long way since the days when all cell phones could do was make voice calls. The variety of sensors, in particular has really grown in the past few years. It used to be that the only sensor on a phone was a light sensor to help automatically adjust screen brightness. A couple of phones added accelerometers prior to the iPhone’s release. But, no one really took advantage of this sensor. You can see a demo of my old HTC Advantage (running Microsoft Windows Mobile) in the video embedded at the end of this blog.