What the patent issue really means is that an OEM manufacturer
outside the US, with no US assets will implement the mult-touch
interface, if no US company is willing to. We really need patent
reform in this country, our bass-ackwards patent laws are preventing
competition, and short changing the consumer.
M
On Feb 11, 10:44 am, Al Sutton <a...@funkyandroid.com> wrote:
> http://europe.nokia.com/A41261457(input from device keys and the mic is
> in the little control dongle).
>
> Using the 3.5mm jack for audio input is pretty common on Nokias devices.
>
> Al.
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> Disconnect wrote:
> > So far google and android employees have publicly -requested-
> > reasonable multitouch implementations.
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> > So .. yeah. Fail #1.
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> > And as to headphone input, I challenge you to point out a single
> > device -anywhere- that uses headphones for input. Seriously.
>
> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 12:24 PM, Michael Martin <mi...@mm-agency.com
> > <mailto:mi...@mm-agency.com>> wrote:
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> > We all know about Apple asking Google to not include multi-touch but
> > according to an Apple employee they also asked not to include the
> > 3.5mm input due to an interesting patent.
>
> > http://www.googleandblog.com/why-no-g1-35mm-headphone-jack/3750/
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