Sony Ericsson wants to add mobile data functionality to the cameras
Getting cameras into mobile phones these days have become so commonplace, that it’s actually harder to find a phone without the camera, then one with it.
But what about doing things the other way around?
Instead of trying to cram the camera functionality into a mobile phone, why not add the phone functionality, or at least [...]
Samsung files patent for cellphone sign language recognition
Samsung’s latest patent filing has us looking at the possible future of mobile phone input technology. This hasn’t exactly been unheard of before (with Sony Ericsson and Nokia both offering their own similar versions to it), but this is the real deal and before today something like this would be highly improbable. With Samsung’s knack [...]
Apple patents laser based head mounted display
The biggest problem watching movies on your iPhone? Of course, it’s the display size.
The quality of video processing quality on the iPhone is pretty good already, and, thank’s to the Moore’s law, will get much better in time, including the capabilities to view full HD movies in time. Storage? Give a few years and [...]
Apple is thinking about it’s own iPhone MVNO? New patent says yes.
We all know that for the next few years Apple’s iPhone is tied to the AT&T network, or whatever carrier has won the iPhone contract in your country by sharing the biggest slice of it’s revenues.
But what’ll happen after these contracts lapse? After the iPhone is an established and lusted for device with tens [...]
Nokia Mobile Games Innovation Challenge inspires the Future
Nokia launched the worldwide Mobile Games Innovation Challenge, a worldwide competition with 70,000 in prizes, each made to inspire the development and creation of innovative game concepts with power to encourage the mobile gaming industry to launch far ahead of its time into a new and exciting future.
The Mobile Games Challenge is seeking bright futuristic [...]
iPhone. Your Lifestyle Companion
Now that iPhone has almost become an open platform for third party software development, we can expect tons of new exciting applications that will make it into a much more useful thing, then a fancy phone and media player.
But that does not mean that developers inside Apple are leaving all this to the third parties. [...]
iPhone 2.0, iPhone 3.0 or iPhone Nano - a clamshell/flip phone?
When talking about how Apple is gonna take over mobile phone industry, one of the things that is very rarely talked about, is iPhone form factor.
There’s a reason we have mobile phones in tens of shapes and sizes, and a number of form factors. Some people prefer to have a clamshell or slider in their [...]
Another take on PSP phone, or Sony Ericsson’s own iPhone patent
The rumors about the Sony Ericsson’s PSP phone have been spreading around the net even before we’ve put some substance to it, with the discovery of the patent application for one design of said device.
Today another Sony Ericsson patent application, called “Orientation based multiple mode mechanically vibrated touchscreen display“, has surfaced.
It shows that [...]
Samsung phone with holographic 3D projection display
Patents, patents, patents… There’s so many of them. It seems that we are getting at least several new mobile phone designs patented every week.
What it is about the mobile phone industry, that makes the R&D departments of cellphone vendors churn out patent applications, like no other electronics/gadget maker does?
I have no idea. [...]
Samsung gaming phone. Take two
In the past few years there has been a lot of chatter about the development of a dedicated gaming cellphone.
But after N-Gage failure, no real gaming phone from any major vendor ever materialized. There were some efforts to position Nokia N81 as one, but it really is not a gaming handset.
Most of other info about [...]