Jul 27

Crazy Phone Patents

http://lm.pcworld.com/t/3569151/16532077/335404/0/

  • Amazon Crash
  • Publication No.: 20110194230
  • Filed: February 11, 2010
  • Company: Amazon
  • when the device is being dropped and then deploy a safety mechanism to protect itself

  • Good Vibes
  • Publication No.: 20120184284
  • Filed: September 13, 2011
  • Company: Nokia
  • When your future Lumia phone rings, you may feel the vibration not in your pocket, but instead on the Tweety Bird painted on your forearm…

  • Seeing Double
  • Publication No.: 20120139939
  • Filed: February 15, 2012
  • Company: Microsoft
  • …dual-display device about the size of a playing card that can convert into two separate devices…
  • You could use this dual-display handset to talk to a person on one screen, and view a document on the other…

  • Samsung Galaxy Wings
  • Publication No.: 20090170566
  • Filed: December 24, 2008
  • Company: Samsung
  • Samsung’s dual-keyboard design used springs to flick out of the sides of the device, switchblade style

  • Smartphone Cycle
  • Publication No.: 20070191729
  • Filed: July 6, 2006
  • Company: Samsung
  • …capable of taking a body temperature reading whenever the user held the handset up to her ear.
  • …help the user chart her ovulation cycle…

  • JoyStylus
  • Patent No.: 7177604
  • Filed: December 31, 2002
  • Company: Nokia
  • …a socket into which you could insert a stylus to create a makeshift joystick.

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