Nokia applies for patent on 3D multi-touch interface that measures pressure of your touch
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While it could be a long time before we see this technology in a new Nokia device, a harder press than normal could mean that a link is tapped on twice. Or a harder touch could simulate pressing the function key on the keyboard. The potential uses are almost limitless. Hey, you guys in Cupertino, make sure you get a copy of this application!
source: USPatent&TrademarkOffice via UnwiredView
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9 Comments
1. E.N. posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:44 0 0
Isn't this basically the same thing as the Storm's surepress? RIM should sue.
2. MTLance (unregistered) posted on 25 Oct 2009, 05:50 0 0
LMAO, cellphone phones companies copying one another and suing each other.
4. kennyyu posted on 25 Oct 2009, 11:25 0 0
Nothing like surepress. Sure press just makes you press the screen in for a click. This sounds like its measuring the pressure. If you read, the nokia idea is still a capacitive screen, just has a pressure monitor to see how hard you're pressing for different actions. Surepress ONLY takes action if the screen is pressed down for a click
6. Quemical posted on 25 Oct 2009, 16:40 0 0
Actually thats not true, it is possible to navigate the menu and select icons without clicking it in, but you are correct in that is is different due to pressure sensitivity.
3. behold--me posted on 25 Oct 2009, 11:20 0 0
nokia is filing a patent, while they are suing apple for patent infringement. lol
5. Kiltlifter posted on 25 Oct 2009, 16:14 0 0
What ever happened to nokias 3D multi-touch where it used motion sensors and "crosshair" markers on the screen to identify touch? That seemed like a good idea. Nokia files all these patents then doesn't follow through with any of them... WHERE IS MY NOKIA MORPH PHONE!
7. James Dang posted on 26 Oct 2009, 01:51 0 0
All this case that your are mention in this topic , I think it's ok!! Not like Samsung Phone where they like to copy other phone from another manufacturer and just upgrade the phone. I saw one samsung phone I forget the index no of the phone look like Sony Ericsson K750i only with a big size. When Nokia is using the wide angle lance in their phone Nokia N86, the Samsung company copying that technology into their phone. That why you can see in Singapore and Malaysia, a lot of their people like to you Sony Ericcson and Nokia phone compare to the Samsung phone although how sofasticated the phone is. I think the patern is needed to avoiding the copycat of other manufacturer.
8. Kiltlifter posted on 27 Oct 2009, 00:27 0 0
Here is the article i was talking about. http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Nokias-S60-Touch-doesnt-actually-require-touch-article-a_2312.html
9. comnut (unregistered) posted on 28 Oct 2009, 07:45 0 0
The BIG question is, can you use this while you are wearing gloves???? The phone may survive frostbite, but I cannot... :) - and it not just skiing that is the problem, but when someone calls, and you are doing the garden, doing the washing up, handling chemicals, etc...
