Posted by Technorati Search for: smartphone on August 14, 2009
Proving that RIM’s hybrid capacitive/resistive touchscreen idea isn’t the only way to address smartphone display usability, one of HTC’s latest patent applications suggests using a new type of stylus to bring resistive-style accuracy to the increasingly popular capacitive panels. Their stylus has a magnetic head which can be registered by a standard capacitive display, meaning you can use your finger for general control and switch to the stylus for more precise or text input. Meanwhile, a
Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on July 9, 2009
Apple’s published patent applications always makes for interesting reading. The iPhone maker’s latest patent applications hint at some really cool features possibly coming down the pipeline - chief among them, a live object identification technology that will allow you to point your iPhone camera at a real-world object to pull up information about that object. Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL ) also outlines technologies that will enable face recognition, event-based tasks, filtering of text messages, cross
Posted by Technorati Search for: iPhone 3G on July 2, 2009
A trio of Apple patent applications unearthed this morning may help shed some light on future features and functionality headed to a new crop of iPhones. Then again we all know how easy it is for patents to lead absolutely nowhere. The first and most notable of the bunch is a haptic feedback concept employing a “grid of piezoelectronic actuators” that combine to form a fully tactile touchscreen. In theory, the device could vibrate these actuators in different combinations and at different freque
Posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for title:smartphone on May 21, 2009
New patent applications from rivals Google and Apple show that the companies are swiftly moving to occupy the same smartphone application arena--one in which your phone adapts to your surroundings and personal routines. Back in April, Apple submitted a couple of patents to the USPTO the centered on how a smartphone--that'll be the iPhone--can actually detect what the user is up to, and ...
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New patent applications from rivals Google and Apple show that the companies are swiftly moving to occupy the same smartphone application arena--one in which your phone adapts to your surroundings and personal routines. Back in April, Apple submitted a couple of patents to the USPTO the centered on how a smartphone--that'll be the iPhone--can actually detect what the user is up to, and ...
