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Applelinks iPhone News Reader - Wednesday, May 28, 2008

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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



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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 iPhone’s LCD display.

Apple has filed a patent application for the integration of a layer of solar cells below a gadget’s LCD display. Essentially, sunlight passing across, say, the iPhone’s 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/


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