“Apple has filed for a patent that addresses virtually every aspect of the iPhone, including potential additions such as GPS mapping, media messaging, video calls, and voice commands,” Aidan Malley reports for AppleInsider.
“While Apple has filed for patents covering individual aspects of the iPhone experience, including text messaging, a new patent application published late last week promises to roll all these and more into a single, comprehensive document — one which credits Apple chief Steve Jobs as first in the list of inventors,” Malley reports.
“In addition to describing much of what the iPhone is capable of today, the patent for a ‘Touch Screen Device’ would also safeguard Apple’s ability to implement several features that have yet to appear in any hardware or in a software revision for the cellphone. On a software level, the company describes simple additions such as instant messaging and a version of Safari capable of playing in-line content such as Quicktime movies or Flash without having to temporarily leave the browser environment,” Malley reports.
“Further welcome additions described in the publication would include a dedicated blogging client, Java software downloads, MMS picture and video messaging, and support for voice-activated commands as well as audio capture,” Malley reports.
More in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Schultz” for the heads up.]
Come on iPhone 2.0…. June 9th can not come soon enough!
If I can convince my wife to let me get one of these rumored iPhones with 3g and gps,, my life would be happier and simpler, the U.S. would be powered by nuclear breeder reactors, EV cars would have 2000 mile range, all Muslims would love Americans, and Mitt Romney would become the next president.
None of those will happen, but a guy can dream can’t he?
Hmm… It looks like I need to wait for iPhone 3.0 for these features. Yes!!!
Dang ‘Empty-Wallet’ Syndrom. I’m still using my old Nokia clamshell from 2004. No contract, just no extra money. (Especially not $20 extra / month. Dang you Budget and Good Finantial Sense!)
Just help me get better reception and I’ll be happy…
Rudge:
You actually have two choices: wait for iPhone 3.0 (or perhaps 4.0, or 5.0, depending on what else they might promise), or get iPhone 2.0 in the next two weeks and enjoy it for the next twelve months (assuming the product refresh cycle will remain 12 months). If Apple remains consistent with their pricing (as they have been for the past ten iMac years), iPhone 3.0 will still cost about $400, which will be what you will have paid for iPhone 2.0. You will most likely have several reasonable options next year, if you were set on getting 3.0 (eBay/Craig’s list, AT&T;’s upgrade with rebate, handing down the old one to your spouse/children, etc). Besides, the device is only $400. It is not like you’re getting a new car, is it?
Dang Iliterasy!
I’m gonna be banging on the door of the local Apple store next monday morning till they let me in and thrust a brand-spank-me new iPhone in my hot, sweaty hands
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Apple Patents all important smart phone features for current and future smartphone devices. Gates and Ballmer need to get a focused plan for Microsoft and it’s future. If Ballmer wants to make MS an internet ad company then MS needs to spin-off the game and the OS businesses as independent companies, close them down, liquidate them out or sell them outright. As MS focuses on competing with Google the company is moving it’s priorities to meet that end, which means the Vista disappointments and vapor feature sets will continue in MS Software products.
Dear Lord please bring me an iPhone 3g next Tuesday in Canada, and if this happens you can disregard my prayer for the ruination of Ted Rogers:-)(-;
I didn’t know you could patent smugness and pretension.
Your potential. Our passion.™
Dear Penthouse Letters:
(censored except for) “. . . they let me in and thrust a brand-spank-me new iPhone in my hot, sweaty hands.”
I don’t get it. Even though you want secrecy, why would you go through all the cost/effort of bringing something to full production/shipped etc. then file your patents? What if someone else started filing patents based on all rumors?
“I didn’t know you could patent smugness and pretension.”
But then Micro$lut patented incompetence, insecurity, vulnerabilities, poor performance, overpriced garbage and a fat ass CEO who can’t dance.
But then again, everyone knows that.
Typically several months go by between the actual filing of your patent and the date that the US patent Office “publishes” it online. This patent was FILED on Sept 5, 2007.
Nokia, Samsung, Sony, RIM, you name it, they’re all going to say they thought of that, before Apple did when they bring out their 5 pound clunker wannabees.
anaknipedro:
EV cars would be good, but Romney?? Are you nuts??
Talk about a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Eugh.
We suck
@ Cheeky Git:
Don’t feed the Trolls.
As to the piece at hand, it is not as if all (or for that manner any) of these things listed in the patent app are going to make it to iPhone 2.0. It is just a patent application, and is really there to protect iPhone innovations that we may not see until the third or fourth generation.
Nobama. Mitt is the only way, what’s left (don’t like that word) of our country will survive in the way it was founded.
Our choices – three little lib piggies. Let the one who calls himself a republican at least have a decent running mate.
iPhones for the massas, sorry – the masses.
@ZuneT
You obviously have.
@ Willie G
Piss off.
Remember a year ago last January, when:
Thus Spoke Steve-a-thustra
“And boy have we patented it”
Ergo, to all you wannabes – kiss our ass
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Ron:
The next president will be Obama. No question. We’ve had enough of this Repug regime’s lies and deceit to last several lifetimes.
@Ron,
Thank you. You and I are proof that not all Mac users are libs.