Mar 12
For a phone to be truly flexible, what it needs is more than just a display than can be bent. We’ve seen LG and Samsung attempt to create phones with slightly more obvious curves, but they are only curved to a certain extent. What companies need next is other companies that can be bent, like batteries, for example.
Well it seems that Nokia might have thought of something similar in the past, thanks to a recently discovered patent in which Nokia describes a battery design in which it can be rolled up, much like a Swiss roll. (more…)
Nokia Patents Swiss Roll-Like Battery original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Bezels are a necessary part of screens, although in some cases they actually detract from the overall design as they can be too thick. Over the years we’ve seen bezels shrink to the point where it’s almost invisible, but at the same time what this means is that manufacturers are looking on the ability to use bezels as a means of interaction.
So earlier last month, we caught wind of a BlackBerry device that was given the codename 
South Korean conglomerate Samsung has just 
Today is the day that the US Patent & Trademark Office has published a patent application from Apple that is entitled “Mobile Emergency Attack and Failsafe Detection.” If you were to turn back the clock by five years or so, that was when Apple invented the iPhone emergency-mode processor, and fast forward to today, the company from Cupertino is working to advance the services which they could introduce into this particular system. In this Apple invention, it more or less relates to the iPhone – particularly techniques for the iPhone so that it can pick up probable emergency situations by itself, and help out the owner without the need to be prompted. Your very own digital guardian angel, so to speak.
It does seem as though Apple is going to explore the possibility of device pairing with Touch ID, as well as touching on camera privacy using diffusers. These came about via a couple of recently released patent applications that detailed potential future capabilities for Apple devices, where the first pointed to a system by which a couple of devices could be paired up with the clever use of biometric information. A fingerprint would suffice, which leads to us thinking that there is more than meets the eye, while the second touches on a method to display camera information with the help of electronic diffusers.
There were whispers going around that Samsung would eventually 
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has just assigned Apple a patent that will entail passive audio call screening ability using an off-site voicemail service, a feature which theoretically speaking, can be applied to various smartphone platforms, the iPhone included. Apple’s U.S. Patent No. 8,666,034 for “Audio call screening for hosted voicemail systems” might eventually deliver a staple landline technology to handsets worldwide. Folks who still own personal answering machines will have fond memories of the ability to screen calls after letting the machine pick up the incoming call. Should the call be worth responding to, one can simply pick up the handset and start talking. This new Apple patent would work with hosted voicemail services, where they are off-site and rather similar in some ways to those offered by cellular operators.
