iPhone 4.0 OS: event based modes, intellingent and scheduled communications
Now that with 3.0 OS iPhone has basically caught up with the traditional smartphones in functionality, it may be time to look how Apple can make the next generation devices even smarter.
We’ve already seen some of the things, like integration between Mapping and Calendar app in recent Apple patent filings. Some new patent [...]
Sony Ericsson’s bracelet phone
Over the years we’ve seen quite a few interesting, strange and stupid mobile phone form factors coming from R&D departments of major cellphone vendors, in a form of patent applications.
Very few of them make it further then a drawing board, but they still are interesting to look at.
Well, here’s one more cellphone [...]
Google wants to make your Android phone much smarter with accelerometer and other sensors
The smartphones we carry around today are pretty smart. They can already do a lot of things and usually do exactly what we tell them to do.
And the recent improvements in user interfaces are making the process of telling your smartphone what to do better and better.
So now the R&D labs at major [...]
Apple is exploring iPhone/TV video streaming
With tens of gigabytes of storage on the upcoming iPhone and it’s superb ability to play media content, your handset can actually become the main media hub in your home entertainment system.
There’s one feature missing, that prevents the iPhone from realizing this potential though. The ability to seamlessly stream media content to [...]
Sony Ericsson’s social networking vision
During the last few months we’ve seen the introduction of various location and context aware services for our mobile devices.
Nokia Friend View and Google Latitude, that allows to broadcast your location to friends probably received the most of the buzz.
But things are only just starting now and this personal info and status [...]
Localized iTunes stores at Starbucks for iPhone needs patent?
Remeber that “Now playing” service that you’ve been getting on your iPhone at Starbucks a while ago?
Well, it seems that Apple really liked it and decided that this thing might be worth it’s own patent, so Palm and Nokia won’t copy it.
The basic idea described in patent app is pretty simple. Place a local cache [...]
Google’s own slider smartphone patent app
Google’s ambitions (and their limits) in mobile space are pretty well known by now.
Google wants to have one of the major mobile OS’es out there. Android 1.0 is a good start, but Google is looking forward for Android 3.0 release next year to really get going.
And by now it should be clear [...]
Microsoft patents the interface to transform your phone into a PC
The power of modern smartphones in many ways equals and even surpasses the power of a desktop PC of just few years ago. You know, things like CPUs faster then 800 Mhz, hundreds of megabytes of RAM, tens of gygabytes of storage, dedicated graphics accelerators, etc;.
So why not just ditch the old [...]
Sony Ericsson wants to equip cameraphones with built-in image dictionaries
In the future, people will be able to point their cameras to foreign objects, and after snapping a photo, gather relevant information about that object such as its name, origin, et cetera effortlessly.
It seems like a given for this kind of camera feature to be present in one way or another in cameras of the [...]
Apple plans to integrate iPhone Mapping and Calendar apps
We told you that Apple is pretty serious about the mobile navigation feature on it’s iPhone.
They have already patented most of the mapping and navigation features used currently on their handsets Mapping app.
Well, that patent app was more or less about the past. But as we all know Steve Jobs likes to look [...]