Handheld fluid transfer apparatus (1; 1'), more particularly pipette or repeater pipette, for performing a pipetting process on a fluid laboratory sample, the fluid transfer apparatus having a body with an elongated shape extending along an axis through the body of the fluid transfer apparatus, the handheld fluid transfer apparatus comprising a movement device using a piston to aspirate the fluid laboratory sample to be pipetted into a pipetting container that is connectable to the handheld fluid transfer apparatus or to discharge the fluid laboratory sample from the pipetting container, a control apparatus, which comprises a data processor capable to execute a control program for controlling at least one electronically controllable function of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus using input data, a user interface device for receiving a user input, the user interface device comprising a motion sensor device for measuring motion data of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus by sensing movement of the entire hand-held apparatus when it is performing a defined path of motion and for providing at least one motion data sequence, which contains subsequently measured motion data, a motion data memory for storing the at least one motion data sequence, and an evaluation device being configured to determine the input data in dependence on the evaluation of the at least one motion data sequence, wherein the control apparatus is configured to control at least one electronically controllable function related to the pipetting process in dependence on the input data, which were determined by the evaluation device in dependence on the subsequently measured motion data measured by the motion sensor device, characterized in that the motion sensor device comprising at least two motion sensors (7; 7'), which are arranged at different positions along the axis of the body of the fluid transfer apparatus, and said electronically controllable function being setting • the volume to be pipetted into the pipetting container connectable to the handheld fluid transfer apparatus or the volume to be discharged from the pipetting container, or • the sequence and repetitions of the pipetting or the discharging, or • time parameters in the distribution of steps of pipetting or discharging, or • the speed of pipetting or discharging the fluid laboratory sample. the fluid transfer apparatus having a body with an elongated shape extending along an axis through the body of the fluid transfer apparatus, the handheld fluid transfer apparatus comprising a movement device using a piston to aspirate the fluid laboratory sample to be pipetted into a pipetting container that is connectable to the handheld fluid transfer apparatus or to discharge the fluid laboratory sample from the pipetting container, a control apparatus, which comprises a data processor capable to execute a control program for controlling at least one electronically controllable function of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus using input data, a user interface device for receiving a user input, the user interface device comprising a motion sensor device for measuring motion data of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus by sensing movement of the entire hand-held apparatus when it is performing a defined path of motion and for providing at least one motion data sequence, which contains subsequently measured motion data, a motion data memory for storing the at least one motion data sequence, and an evaluation device being configured to determine the input data in dependence on the evaluation of the at least one motion data sequence, wherein the control apparatus is configured to control at least one electronically controllable function related to the pipetting process in dependence on the input data, which were determined by the evaluation device in dependence on the subsequently measured motion data measured by the motion sensor device, characterized in that the motion sensor device comprising at least two motion sensors (7; 7'), which are arranged at different positions along the axis of the body of the fluid transfer apparatus, and said electronically controllable function being setting • the volume to be pipetted into the pipetting container connectable to the handheld fluid transfer apparatus or the volume to be discharged from the pipetting container, or • the sequence and repetitions of the pipetting or the discharging, or • time parameters in the distribution of steps of pipetting or discharging, or • the speed of pipetting or discharging the fluid laboratory sample. • the volume to be pipetted into the pipetting container connectable to the handheld fluid transfer apparatus or the volume to be discharged from the pipetting container, or • the sequence and repetitions of the pipetting or the discharging, or • time parameters in the distribution of steps of pipetting or discharging, or • the speed of pipetting or discharging the fluid laboratory sample.