What may be down the road for Smartphones: mobile security, ie. car break-in alerts, deter dogs by high frequency, home security applications, retina-scan and other digital ids…perhaps more advanced data management and reporting software…maybe we will live long enough to see virtual intelligence in a handheld device; the truly interactive/intuitive smartphone…or, maybe Smartphones will sweep completely into the world of entertainment/gaming…we are almost there now…

but…will someone make sure the battery lasts? We may never know.

In other news… General Motors just applied for a patent on the wheel.

Apple is cutting edge? It took how long to get copy and paste?

“I’m fucking glad, Steve Jobs is back”.

See? there’s a huge difference from when he was away, and when he got back. Let’s move back on track again iPhone Team, Speed just doesn’t cut it for me yet.

that sounds more like a holograph projector than anything…

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=21&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=5717423&OS=5717423&RS=5717423

I doubt the current screen technology that Apple is deploying is capable of the detail and precision to read finger prints. However finger print scanners are common on Laptops these days. They are getting very cheap at the component level. Apple could add on on the back or somewhere.

It would be cool to just touch that to invoke an unlock, or a specific app.

Does anyone else see the irony here? Everyone bitches about the iPhone being a finger print magnet, and Apple turns around and uses that to its advantage. !!

We grouse about Battery Life too. Patent THAT Apple, and make us LIKE it.

Yes, I’ve often thought that if Apple could steal some of Google’s Voice Recognition technology (Or license from Nuance – the big dog in VR) the iPhone would be much improved.

If you’ve ever used Google’s voice search, you know its uncannily accurate. (At least for North American English speakers).

Imagine being able to recite an email rather than type it!

But I don’t think any of these patents cover that. Apple is too late to that party.

I could see the Karoke thing happening in a firmware update… After all we have voice control in the 3Gs… ooOOoo wouldn’t it be cool to have dragon Naturally Speaking app (or something of the like) for the iPhone… that would be totally awesome…

Oh, god Apple please NO!!

All we need is a bunch of pod-heads running around with earbuds wailing into their phones!!

This would be about as welcome as a cactus in an outhouse.