Archive for the ‘Personal Communication’ Category.
May 7, 2009, 2:03 pm
Simple idea huh? Then how come no one has done it? That’s exactly what the folks at Research In Motion were probably thinking when they filed patent 11/934,129. Expect to see this feature on Blackberry devices soon, if not already. (Sorry, although I own several Windows Mobile phones and an iPhone, I don’t own a Blackberry.) The patent application describes a method for essentially storing a photo at the highest resolution after you’ve snapped a photo with your camera phone, and adjusting the photo to a different resolution which you are prompted for. This does sound convenient, as I always forget to lower the resolution for photos that I want to email.
May 4, 2009, 9:18 pm
Full bars? Wait, is that full bars for voice or data? Yea, apparently it’s different. Palm aims on resolving this issue (if you want to call it that). In patent application 11/932,577, filed on Oct 31, 2007, Palm reveals a new signal strength indicator, that will tell you both the voice and data signal strength, without taking up much more screen real estate. Simple enough. Above is one of three examples given. Let’s see if this features makes it onto the Palm Pre.
May 3, 2009, 9:37 pm
Rather than following Apple’s philosophy of only allowing one application to be run on the iPhone at any given time, Google is working to make multi-tasking more reliable on a PDA/phone. As Google’s 11/932,613 discusses, although you can expect a desktop user to close applications, the same cannot be expected of a PDA/phone user. And as applications stay open, memory fills up. Next stop - application crash. Google’s invention aims at solving this problem by automatically terminating applications. Their trick is to save the applications state before terminating, and making it appear to the user that the application is still running. Presumably, it would know if the application is performing something in the background, and avoid its termination.
Anyone know if Android does this today?
