Use the tilt of the phone relative to a preset orientation as a joystick or mouse input.
For instance: in an FPS (quake?) use the tilt of the phone to move the crosshairs up/down relative to (say) 45 degrees at a ratio of (say) 2:1 so that a vertical phone points the crosshairs straight up and a horizontal phone points the crosshairs straight down. Then use the sideways tilt to control the rate of turn. This would allow more complex moves such as orbiting by tilting the phone to (say) the right and using the direction control to sidestep the left.
Rate of turn in both axes would make more sense in flight sims, but sniper modes might use straight tilt control both ways. Pinball games could also use a very literal tilt.
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the idea of puting this in a phone is kind of interresting, but it is arleady available for pc's, i have a gyromouse, it's pretty cool, it uses a 3 axis gyro to control the mouse, kindof like pointing at the screen, it's great for FPS, except for slight lag due to the extra computing, but im sure this could be overcome.
Possibly the new iPhone, which has such a tiltmeter I think, could be a platform for which a developer could write applications to do this.