Analysts have long urged Apple to press ahead with the launch of its first foldable iPhone, but patent activity suggests the company has bigger plans. As spotted by Patently Apple, Apple has filed a patent application (US-20230221766-A1) for a rollable display with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Inventors Que Anh S Nguyen ...
We all know the airplane mode of our mobiles: it is used to cut all connections, mandatory when you get on a plane, and useful at other times when you want avoid notifications and calls. But it seems that the European Union no longer considers it essential and plans to eliminate it. To the detriment ...
The iPhone surely had two moments in which it underwent a substantial change in its own identity. The first was with the iPhone 6, and the second was with the iPhone X. In a way, it was not only its design that was changed, but also its philosophy, and that This is something that has ...
Get a smartphone that doesn’t scratch the screen or the back. It’s possible? According to AppleInsider, the prestigious inventor Christopher D. Perst and his team, also responsible for the implementation of a ceramic glass MagSafe charger, have almost succeeded. For decades there has been an oscillation between the different components of the body. From aluminum ...
AirPods are for many users one of the products they use the most on a daily basis. In fact, the constant investment that Apple makes in the development of the complete line of headphones allows more and more users to buy one of its models. A new patent filed by Apple shows how from Cupertino ...
One of the first video games that went on sale on the classic Nintendo DS was Nintendogs, a video game developed by Nintendo that encouraged us to take care of an endearing virtual puppy, walking it down the street and training it to win prizes in competitions. However, I know very few people who were ...
A while ago it seemed that Nintendo was fully embracing smartphone gaming as a way to get more exposure for some of its classic IPs. While that plan appears to have been scaled back quite a bit, it appears that Nintendo is still exploring its options with iOS and Android games. A recently granted patent ...
Periodically we hear news, rumors, or just requests to extend reverse charging to Apple devices. The idea is that we can supports our AirPods on the back of our iPhone, for example, and these fill up your battery. The truth is, reverse charging is already here, in Apple’s official MagSafe battery. Between its presence in ...
Microsoft has made a name for itself when it comes to improving its classic games and now filed a patent for a system that will make some optimizations in this type of productions when played in the cloud. Details of the improvements have yet to be released, but overall it’s expected that maintaining these titles ...
Forms of advertising and revenue are constantly changing. We’ve been listening for some time to publishers looking for new ways to monetize games with live ads. A new patent filed by Microsoft (detected by playful) points to the same thing. The patent in question appears to be a method of ...
