Tag Archive for 'patent'

Nokia’s ugliest idea for a phone yet, it’s an egregiously mis-proportioned device featuring dual screens, one or both of them presumable being a touch screen. It looks like they took an N800, thinned it down a bit, and put a giant crease in the middle.

Dual screens aren’t new, and the only way you could get [...]

Sure, there are slight differences, and maybe they add up to enough of a difference for a lawsuit to not be possible, but it looks almost exactly the same. The patents were filed in July, shortly after the release of the iPhone, coincidence? I think not.

We could see it in a new Zune Phone, maybe [...]

Well its not really in a box, its in a shipping container. Furthermore, its not all that new, I read about it way back when they hired the first couple of engineers specifically for this project.

It was rumored at the time that Google was buying up all the “Dark Fiber” out there and that they [...]

Could Apple be working on a smaller UMPC or tablet to be released sometime in the future? If I had a nickel every time someone asked that I’d probably be rich. However, a recently discovered patent filed by the Cupertino-based company shows that they may be doing just that.

So, Apple goes and files a patent for collapsible ports (USB, FireWire, etc, you get the idea). Now everyone is talking ultra-portable, ultra mobile, its just ridiculous that at the first sign of a cool feature that just so happens to save space, they are conspiring to make a new device.

Since when have “Apple” and [...]

It’s nice to see that despite wowing crowds with the iPhone Apple aren’t resting on their laurels.  New patents have shown up that range from the vaguely dull - a hold switch that activates automatically when it gets dark - to the more interesting, such as short-range information exchange that could be used in wireless [...]

In-car GPS systems are great, but have you ever been driving along and have it tell you to turn, only to find out that you’re really not sure where it wanted you to turn? A new patent has surfaced depicting a navigation system that will use a camera to show you the road as it [...]

In a patent published this week (and originally filed in 2005) there are hints as to the next interface on portable hardware from Microsoft.  Under the heading of “color and context-adaptable hardware button” they detail their plans for a next-gen D-pad control, where the buttons themselves are layered underneath a display which, similar to Optimus’ [...]

There have been rumors floating around that Sony may be interested in producing a PSP phone.  A patent filed by Sony Ericsson lends some credibility to those rumors.

It’s no secret that the Zune isn’t selling well, but Microsoft has just been awarded a patent that may put a future version of the music player in your car.