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- smarusich, on 11/20/2008, -8/+51So Apple is going to get another $199 from me next year...
- Kerath, on 11/20/2008, -0/+31No, they would think about it. But can you explain how to emit light without using energy? That would be pretty big.
- angrycat, on 11/20/2008, -2/+28Blinking lights are for primitive phones used by savages.
You're forgetting that us noble elite iphone users require more than some peasant inspired blinking light. - nbulp, on 11/20/2008, -3/+26Looks like a crappy solution. If they'd use OLED-displays, they could turn individual pixels on in any color and intensity. No backlight required. No SECONDARY backlight required either.
- dandy1117, on 11/20/2008, -2/+20you're missing one point, it may save battery life since you wouldn't have to wake up the phone and power up the main LCD to check email or voice mail messages or other notifications
- sockpuppets, on 11/20/2008, -8/+26Your mom's an iphone.
- rootnik, on 11/20/2008, -1/+18Will it copy/paste?
- OneManArmy, on 11/20/2008, -12/+20the iphone just keeps getting better and better :). here is hoping for a macworld update!
- atb12688, on 11/20/2008, -7/+15Stop bashing Apple for being innovative. /s
I love my iPhone 3g. Why does any of this other ***** matter? The battery life seems fine to me. I'm not sure what you were expecting with everything they jammed into such a small device. Oh wait that's right. You expect Apple to do things that are only in your dreams. NM. - pixelate, on 11/20/2008, -1/+8Yeah, well, your mom already has always-on status indicators.
- aserer511, on 11/20/2008, -1/+8or you could give it a status LED, and make it look darn slick too, a la macbooks
- bbeep, on 11/21/2008, -1/+8Right on dandy1117. Think of how many times you power on the whole display just to check the time, etc.
- Kerath, on 11/20/2008, -1/+8E-paper is not backlit, and it uses power when it changes.
- HappyScrappy, on 11/20/2008, -2/+8There's no evidence they are developing this, they have a zillion patents they don't do anything with.
- uknowwhoibe, on 11/20/2008, -17/+23Another way to lower the battery life!
- cthellis, on 11/20/2008, -1/+6Seriously, have you NOT noticed until now what a mess tech and software patenting is in? I mean, "One Click Purchasing?" Seriously?
- mjhamilton, on 11/20/2008, -2/+7It would be $399. The subsidy is $200 from AT&T. But I would imagine that current iPhone customers would get a similar deal they received this time. If you were a current iPhone customer, you could get the discounted price.
- greedyemu, on 11/20/2008, -2/+6My Light Bright did this 20 years ago. APPLED AGAIN.
- UnseenLlama, on 11/20/2008, -2/+6$199? Don't ya mean $299 because you've already used your "upgrade" from ATT?
- MindStalker, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3a single blue led uses very little battery power. This would have no noticeable effect on battery life is designed properly and could improve battery life to keep people from turning on their backlight when they might not need to.
- digggggggggg, on 11/20/2008, -5/+8Why doesn't Apple just leave the LCD on, but turn the backlight off? You can still see what's on the screen. Then, all they would have to do is make a high contrast, minimal function UI for the "backlight off" mode. Almost all cell phones do this already, along with most of the newer ipods, so you can see the time and some status indicators without having to turn the device on all the way.
A "secondary backlight" is seriously overkill. The only time you might need it is if you're in a place with no light, in which case you could always just turn the phone on.
Then again, most of the stuff Apple patents never sees the light of day anyway. - mouthster, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3If you think Apple can hear your thoughts blinking LED's are the least of your concerns.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3zOMG how fascinating!!!1
not. - Odaecom, on 11/21/2008, -0/+3How about it showing a clock, in this mode?
- zoomzoom83, on 11/20/2008, -1/+4My friends's Samsung mobile does this already.
When the main screen is off, a low-power graphic is displayed with a clock and battery indicator - klowngoblin, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3umm jammed what into a small device? CPU? RAM? FLASH? LCD w/ touch screen?
oh wait you just explained almost every PDA Phone out there on the planet. - jeeky, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2Why don't developers just get a dual boot of Android and iPhone-OSX going already?
- northernmonkee, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2About time, I'd like to have email notifications at a glance without having to unlock the phone. The Blackberry's little LED although annoying, addictive and quite intrusive more than made up for itself in terms of usefulness and day to day business.
- TheCheeks, on 11/20/2008, -5/+7You really think they would develop something like this and NOT think about the battery life?
- Arachnivore, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Seriously, this tech will be obsolete before it even hits the market. OLED + Pentile pixel matrix is a much more elegant solution.
- cthellis, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2The use of multiple light layers, the front of which must be at least semi-transparent or permeable in a region, to let low-power or high-power backlights illuminate the screen, depending on the nature of the task.
While this is not a revolution, it's also something "not really done" right now, which makes it interesting. - defectDS, on 11/21/2008, -0/+2Do all you want to restrain from calling a patent, but it's a patent, and chances are it means absolutely nothing. Move along now...
- sputza, on 11/20/2008, -0/+2whatever floats your boat.
- gamefreak4321, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3I want to know how they intend to stuff that into my 8mm thick iPod.
- thephosphorbox, on 11/21/2008, -1/+3Umm my WinMo phone has had status indicators since I got it over a year ago.. so it's "innovative" because they're going to use the LCD screen instead of a few flush-mounted LEDs? Gimmie a break.
- championchap, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Whatever sucks your *****.
- locojones, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Innovation isn't looked at in the retrospect cthellis. Point me to an example of a streamlined one-click online purchasing process that existed before Amazon.
- fanboydcs, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1They already have this for the iPod classic, this patent is not for the iPhone its for the future/current iPods.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Its the width and height that bother me.
Ive got one sitting next to me on my colleagues desk, and its a fair bit larger. Larger even than my old Nokia 6680, which felt like a brick in my pocket.
Weight isnt an issue - the n85 is a very solid phone and this is refelcted in its weight. - megaton, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Similar to how a 3-way lightbulb works?
- cthellis, on 11/20/2008, -0/+1Seems kind of an odd choice, because while the iPhone is about 1cm taller and wider than the N85, it's more slender (giving it only a ~15% volume bump, and they weigh about the same.
Unfortunately to get that kind of screen, you're pretty much forced into those "slightly larger" dimensions. They do pretty well with it otherwise, though. - gravis86, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2No. Microsoft employees get to upgrade every year. And yes, I work at MS and have an iPhone. What?
- winmywii, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1I really hate the red LED. It does the job but that little blinking red light drives me crazy until I absolutely have to check my email.
- inactive, on 11/21/2008, -1/+2Yeah but then you got the ass clowns at Microsoft trying to sue every other company that remotely infringes on any little thing they may have copied from Xerox or a company they bought out many years ago.
- mouthster, on 11/21/2008, -2/+3You should change your name to "durrrrrrrrrr".
- klowngoblin, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1LOL omg i thought the iphone's S2U screen had missed calls and stuff. i didnt know winmo phones had it first.
- austin006, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1why not just dim the 'primary' backlight? this is just retardiculous*
*a new word I came up with earlier this week - cthellis, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1Indeed, 1cm in two dimensions is a fair bit. I just find it "not big enough" to get in the way of anything in particular, outside of trying to fit it in one of those "waterproof containers" (that you usually toss your room key, ID, and some cash inside) when I was on vacation. Hehe...
Of course I don't keep my cell phone in my pocket so much as I use the holster pocket in my jacket, which has enough room for a paperback. - faclonX, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1I don't know what you....... Hold on, gotta check my email my BB is flashing again....
- nothin2g, on 11/21/2008, -0/+1you already can test this: press both buttons until the phone makes a hard reset. you can see the lcd for some time without the backlight.
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