We weren't able to experience all that the Boom key is capable of in our short time with the device, but it does serve a multitude of functions, including launching
the camera from standby mode, shuffling through photos in the Gallery, automatically optimizing the audio experience for enhanced loudness and clarity, or create a really cool parallax effect on the home screen to see things like the current weather information.
We find notes
from director Peter Jackson, extras wrangler Josie Leckie, director of photography Andrew Lesnie,
camera operator Richard Bluck, armour weapons
standby John Harding, greens master Brian Massey, co-producer Rick Porras, designer / sculptor Daniel Falconer, senior machinist / engineer Dominic Taylor, animation supervisor Randall William Cook, stunt performer Steve Reinsfield, extras casting Miranda Rivers and Victoria Cole, painter Brett Larsen, carpenters Geoff Goss and Ross Hoby, supervising unit location manager Richard Sharkey, 2nd AD Marc Ashton, stunt performers Mana Davis and Sala Baker, 2nd unit director Geoff Murphy, boom operators Eoin Cox and Corrin Ellingford, on set art director Simon Bright,
camera operator Peter McCaffrey, motion control operator Henk Prins, previsualisation supervisor Christian Rivers, digital surveyor Nick Booth, stable foreman Lee Somervell, gaffer David Brown, set finishing supervisor Kerry Dunn, on set art director Joe Bleakley, effects technician Peter Zivkovic, on set prosthetics makeup Tami Lane, 3rd AD Chris Husson, Weta Workshop's Richard Taylor, effects technicians Darryl Richards and Scott Harens, stunt rigger Paul Shapcott, New Zealand stunt coordinator Kirk Maxwell, swordmaster Bob Anderson, medic and safety officer Andy Buckley, supervising art director Dan Hennah, conceptual artist Alan Lee, Gimli scale double Brett Beattie, and actors Dominic Monaghan, Billy Boyd, Andy Serkis, Bernard Hill, Brad Dourif, Elijah Wood, Orlando Bloom, Sean Astin, Miranda Otto, and Viggo Mortensen.
Users can look forward to an enhanced Gallery app, featuring a way of viewing your images by location; a
camera app that you can go straight to
from standby without having to unlock; and an update of the movie rental service to HTC Watch 2.0, which will allow for better multiscreen sharing with your television as well as direct access to relevant movie - related apps.