Posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for intitle:smartphone on August 27, 2010
Now we've seen some pretty wild keyboard patent applications in the past, from folding keyboards , angled keyboards , keyboards you can reconfigure by hand , and even keyboards with displays in every key (hello Optimus Maximus). But now RIM seems to have a new take on the smartphone keyboard concept. The company has filed a patent application for a keyboard which not only can be turned 90 ...
Posted by Digg RSS Search for ipad on August 23, 2010
On July 19, 2010, the US Patent & Trademark Office published a series of ten meticulously detailed Apple patent applications covering the technology behind Apple's high-resolution LED-backlit IPS displays. These high-end displays could be found on today's iPad, iPhone 4 and even on the latest upgraded iMacs. According to Apple's newly published
Posted by Yahoo! News Search Results for ipad reviews on July 31, 2010
Three Apple patent applications just became public on USPTO website...
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
