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| Microsoft's Cell Phone with Touch Screen |
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| By PatentMonkey on 7/19/2007 9:20 PM |
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What if the Zune was a cell phone? What if it had a touch screen on the back of it? What would you do with it? Microsoft slipped in a patent application covering a cell phone that can be used as a touch screen computer mouse for your PC. After searching on the topic, we've uncovered Microsoft-two-sided-cell-phone-touch-screen-interact-with-your-PC-WiFi-patent-application-goodness. Whew, details after the jump...
This discovery comes on the back of the re-surfaced Apple Zune-like, [ninja fighting] patent application hype last week that CrunchGear and we discussed. Can there be more things connected on this patent application? Not likely.
Here's what they've claimed:
1. A system that facilitates navigating on a display, comprising: a mouse engine component that detects a location; and an interface component that integrates the mouse engine into a handheld communication device.
Let the race begin between Microsoft and Apple in the cell phone arena. Sit back, grab a drink, this is likely to get really interesting even if some of these patent applications are getting a bit silly.
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