Looking for gPhone Clues in Google Patents

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 26, 2007 @07:32AM from the it's-like-sleuthing dept.

iced_tea writes "What do Google patents say about the company's possible plans for a Google phone? News.com took a look at some of the related technologies. Just one example: 'This image shows a diagram from a patent filed June 30, 2005 and published October 12, 2006, called "Non-Standard Locality-Based Text Entry." The inventor is listed as Shumeet Baluja, a senior staff research scientist at Google, and the assignee is listed as Google. The invention would allow an English speaker, for example, to use the keypad of any mobile phone to enter Chinese characters, according to Google patent scrutinizer Stephen Arnold.'"

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jesus fuck, was the iphone not enough? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-26 08:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

My god, there was all this clamor of how the iphone was the panacea we all needed. now it's here, and in a time frame sooner than a child can be conceived and born, people are looking to the Next New Thing? The Muslims are right, this constant shallow materialistic concern with toys will be the decline of the USA.