Re: [News] RIM Patents the Nokia N810, the Mylo, Etc.
Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 March 2008 22:30 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> RIM out to patent BlackBerry slider
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| What do you get if you mesh a dual-orientation handset together with a
>>>| slide-out keyboard and a tracker ball? Potentially, the next BlackBerry
>>>| from Research in Motion (RIM), if its latest patent application is anything
>>>| to go by.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/05/rim_blackberry_patent_tracker_ball_keyboard/
>>>
>>> Gosh. This is ridiculius. First to file or first to be the 'genuis' that
>>> thinks about a keyboard *gasp* that slides or folds?
>>>
>>
>> My Psion 5mx had a sliding keyboard.
>>
>> This stuff is insane - how can anyone even consider that these things
>> are anything other than natural developments on current technology.
>>
>> There is nothing /technical/ to these things, they're just moving the
>> bl**dy peripherals around.
>>
>> How long before Audi patents lights on the front of a car?
>
> Or sliding candy dispensers...
>
Or using a glass screen to protect the driver from the wind...
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