http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/ Engadget Comments for Apple patent app reveals back-side interface for handhelds http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 12:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
cool design tho.]]>May 10th 2007 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 12:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
Did you read the patent or just look at the pictures. This is not a double sided device that you flip back and forth. The back is a "force-sensitive touch-surface" and when you touch the back while looking at the front a scroll wheel, or whatever they want (a cursor for example) appears on the screen.

why would there be a lawsuit for this?]]>May 10th 2007 12:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/


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Well, great untill you think about how to hold and operate it...

What? Does Apple want us to use our middle fingers to scroll around on the back of the device? Or how do you use it in portrait mode with a single hand?]]>May 10th 2007 12:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 12:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
Also, holding this would be as awkward as picking up something from a dumpster. You just wouldn't know how to hold it right.]]>May 10th 2007 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
Course, I couldn't explain how to protect the screen on the back.... I figure it would get scratched to easily. Oh well.]]>May 10th 2007 1:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 4:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 3:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
Sony Clie TH55

But I am sure Apple fanboys will believe that Apple was the first to create this idea.]]>May 10th 2007 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
Seriously, if you don't care enough to even read the summary Engadget posts, why bother commenting on it?]]>May 10th 2007 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
I look forward to a future where I'm groping the whole body of my electronic devices.]]>May 10th 2007 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 5:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/May 10th 2007 5:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
So yeah, similar, not exactly the same, but similar.

Maybe you should research more before acting like the typical Apple fanboy.]]>May 10th 2007 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
The wow starts now...not.]]>May 10th 2007 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/http://www.engadget.com/2007/05/10/apple-patent-app-reveals-back-side-interface-for-handhelds/
@Jay: if you think that a jog dial on the back is almost the same concept as a touch sensitive surface in the back with the same surface size as the screen, then I guess you think a jog dial in the regular position is basically the same as a touch sensitive screen too? Also, who said anything about changing the world? Apple has lots of patent applications, and very small fraction ever become a real product.
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* I assume you don't mean that NASA the organization has a learning curve -- that's like saying "Microsoft has a learning curve" when you're referring to Windows ]]>May 15th 2007 3:35AM