Apple granted design patent for iPhone 3G, 3GS
Hot on the heels of the "ornamental design" patent covering its original iPhone and iPod touch , we've got a second USPTO patent granted to Apple covering what looks to be the more curvaceous iPhone 3G and 3GS. Jonathan P
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: covering-its, iphone, iphone 3g, iphone3g, nph, parser, patent, uspto, usual
Motorola patent combines multiple devices to make one large display
It seems to us that if you indulge in mobile video from time to time, you're either lugging around a device with a decent display size (netbook, tablet, whatevs) or more likely than not you're watching your Britain's Got Talent! clips on a handset -- either solution is obviously less than ideal.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: display, either-solution, indignity, multiple displays, multipledisplays, netacgi, obviously-less, parser, patentapplication, pto2, result, screen-display, technology, thinkpad
RIM patent app will have you barely browsing the web at incredible speeds
Let's not mince words: any way you slice it, RIM's built-in browser for BlackBerry renders sites about as well as your $199 netbook renders Avatar . The good news is that we've got every reason to believe the company recognizes the problem and is working to solve it -- but on a completely unrelated front, they're trying to speed up the process of fetching raw data off the interwebs, too.
Categories: BlackBerry, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: barely-browsing, black, BlackBerry, browser, interwebs, netacgi, parser, patent, proxy, proxy-server, uspto
Apple tries for ‘adding a contact to a home screen’ patent, but Android beat them to the punch
Despite the incredible realism of the drawing above to the left, we're probably not looking at iPhone OS 4.0 right here. Instead we've got Apple doing what Apple does: applying for a patent for some pretty vague functionality that may or may not end up in a device someday.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, drawing, entry, incredible, little-tidbits, mobile, parser, picture, result, sms, uspto