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Looking for gPhone Clues in Google Patents

Posted by Zonk on 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.'"

4 of 41 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Google has no business making a phone ... by psychicsword · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This will fail. I bet some said the same thing about apple, and look at them now.
  2. Re:Prior Art. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Maybe you should read the claims and find out?

    US2006/0230350

    You never know you might learn something before spouting off about something you clearly know nothing about.

  3. Re:Kanji? Really? by hansamurai · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You seem to forget that there's already an entire market of Asian cell phones out there that have already solved this problem.

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    Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
  4. Re:jesus fuck, was the iphone not enough? by Jorgandar · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Huh? If anything, this is a good thing. Constantly increased expectations, wanting it faster, cheaper, better. That's called innovation.

    You can go have your stone hut and sense of humility, i'll take my iPhone and double-latte.