Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Apple Patent Filing Suggests Solar Powered iPhone
Apple Reportedly Buys Handwriting Code For iPhone OS 2.0
TeliaSonera secures iPhone deal for Nordic and Baltics
Apple Patent Filing Suggests Solar Powered iPhone
The Register's James Sherwood reports:
The battery life of portable gadgets has always been a source of frustration. But Apple may have found an eco-friendly way around the problem - by integrating a solar panel behind, say, the iPhones LCD display.
Apple has filed a patent application for the integration of a layer of solar cells below a gadgets LCD display. Essentially, sunlight passing across, say, the iPhones screen could be soaked-up by the solar panel beneath the LCD and then turned into useable power for the phone.
For the full report, visit:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/05/27/apple_solar_power_patent/
Apple Reportedly Buys Handwriting Code For iPhone OS 2.0
iPhoneAtlas reports:
A Chinese third-party developer claims that Apple has bought his software for recognizing handwritten input on the iPhone. Screenshots of an iPhone OS 2.0 build incorporating handwriting technolgy as a method for entering Chinese characters surfaced a few weeks ago, but it now appears that Apple may have acquired this function rather than developed it in-house....
Dubbed HWPen, the third-party handwriting recognition application was developed by Hanwang.com.cn to allow Chinese character input on the iPhone, but the program works equally well with English input....
For the full report, visit:
http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/05/27/apple-reportedly-buys-handwriting-code-for-iphone-os-20/
TeliaSonera secures iPhone deal for Nordic and Baltics
The Register's Jan Libbenga reports:
TeliaSonera today announced it will bring Apple's iPhone to all Nordic and Baltic countries, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
For the full report, visit:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/27/teliasonera_secures_iphone_deal/
