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What happens to stereo on your iPhone, if you rotate it?

by Guy J Kewney | posted on 10 December 2008

If you have your headphones plugged into your iphone, of course you get full stereo. And if you watch a music video and rotate the iPhone into landscape, it carries on putting left side sounds in your left ear, naturally. But... what if you plug your iPhone into one of those natty big room-filler sound systems?

According to Logic3, most iPod speakers assume that there's no video, and therefore, the iPod will stay upright, in portrait mode. So when a cool vid comes on, and you rotate it to see the pictures, you get the left things up in the air, and the right things down on the floor.

Fail!

Hence the device illustrated here. It's the i-Station 25. It has four speakers, and a real accelerometer. So it can tell which speakers are left, and which are right, even if you rotate it. Really, what more do you need to know?

Oh, yeah: £68.50 inc. VAT in the UK. Still less than $100, isn't it?