The iPhone 4 is the first portable consumer device to feature full nine degree-of-freedom (9-DoF) inertial sensing. Apple have done this by integrating a three-axis accelerometer and a three-axis gyroscope from STMicroelectronics (ST), together with an electronic compass from AKM. The iPhone product line has moved steadily towards this goal with each successive model. Steve Nasiri and his Invensense colleagues discussed the benefits of 9-DoF sensing in some detail in a recent Whitepaper.