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Wristphone, please.]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
Umm LG is already their....]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
That's not a wristphone. It's a watchphone! And it sucks. :(]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/"Fold into an origami swan for directions to the nearest BBQ chicken takeaway"]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
Fold into a pikachu to launch the gameboy emulator.]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
This simply shows that you do not "get" the N900 and haven't actually tried it. Sure resistive isn't as touch sensitive as capacitive. The screen on N900 is very sensitive for a resistive though. Best I have used.

However the best thing about N900 is the browser that beats everything else out there. Part of the browser experience is the super high resolution screen without any need for zooming. You simply cannot achieve that without the higher accuracy of resistive screen and support for stulys or nail.

With my fingers, any real accuracy on capacitive screen is simply impossible. Hell the tip covers one tenth of the screen. How am I supposed to press on something with it when there are 5 different links hidden behind it.]]>Jan 19th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
LOL]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
Exactly. That's the point of this. Get in first on the patent.
They don't have a serious use for it yet, but they're grabbing legal control of the idea in case one day they do find a use.]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
2020? I hope it is sooner than that! The tech, not the lawsuit.]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
With the multitude of phones that Nokia release every year, it is not unlikely that they could actually produce a phone with this in the next year or so. With Apple however, since they release only a couple of gadgets every year or so, it would be more unlikely that Apple could do anything with this patent in the next few years.

If Nokia makes the patent, people call them a patent troll. If Apple patents something, people would call it the next best thing.]]>Jan 19th 2010 1:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/we all know who's the biggest patent troll.]]>Jan 19th 2010 1:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
I recall seeing this nearly 2 years ago:

http://www.nokia.com/about-nokia/research/demos/the-morph-concept
evidenced here:
http://www.gtfrc.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=242232&highlight=morph

Nokia are doing far more than any other Manufacturer.]]>Jan 19th 2010 4:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
I thought is was a UI for the more primitive men amongst us.
Bend into a Can for BEER.
Bend into a Bowl for TOILET.
Bend into a Curve for WOMAN.

There. Most of a man's needs dealt with in a simple gesture UI.]]>Jan 19th 2010 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
Bend it into a pipe then do the backward-forward grip with your hand 10x.]]>Jan 19th 2010 7:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
'this'? what do you mean? Its not a product. its a patent.

as for flexible displays, yea sure, they already exist.. whatever. we can't figure out what to do with them..]]>Jan 19th 2010 1:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 1:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/They are already real. Working demonstrations have been shown off for years- i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtN_TkZUOt4

The problem is they can't get these things into a range where 1 million can be manufactured for $10 each and that is what's needed.

It's the same thing with the battery prototypes and research. Great, another group figured out a way to increase battery performance by 2x. Now show me how to take those lab techniques and translate them into a manufacturable and low cost product. *crickets*]]>Jan 19th 2010 1:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
Well Nokia is probably the world leader in making high tech cheap. I mean have you seen the 20$ phones that gets you maybe USB cable from Apple. They are pretty much on par with smartphones from 4 years back.]]>Jan 19th 2010 2:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
introducing the Nokia Njoint]]>Jan 19th 2010 1:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 1:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX-gTobCJHs]]>Jan 19th 2010 2:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/
Now we wait for Apple to rip it off, market a product quickly saying, aren't we clever and then try to get the Nokia product banned in the US when Nokia uses their own technology.
.]]>Jan 19th 2010 3:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/Jan 19th 2010 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/it was part of a design competition that nokia put on few years ago

i think some chick from M.I.T won at least i think she was from M.I,T any how the concept phones was known then as
Nokia 888 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G32JmZkRddc


watch video enjoy ]]>Jan 19th 2010 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/]]>Jan 19th 2010 6:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/19/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays/]]>Jan 19th 2010 6:11AM