sincity Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Touch displays are obviously terrific, but there are times when it would be great to have an alternative way to navigate on our smartphones, especially if we don’t want to muck up our screens with greasy fingerprints. Patent Bolt has found that Google (GOOG) is apparently following Apple’s (AAPL) lead by working on a technology that provides smartphone touch controls on the back panel of the device instead of on the front display. Patent Bolt notes that the back-panel controls would obviously perform simple tasks since it would be difficult to type words if you can see a keypad. However, Patent Bolt says that the controls could allow you to “turn a page of an ebook, article on the web View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanaraud Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 really? one displaces a button in a device gets a patent and trolls others for billions for it? nowadays patentwar is gone too far in my eyes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajnl Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 (edited) really? one displaces a button in a device gets a patent and trolls others for billions for it? nowadays patentwar is gone too far in my eyes. yeah no kidding. But that is because they are miss using what patents were intended for Edited March 11, 2013 by ajnl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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