“On October 26, the US Patent & Trademark Office published Apple’s patent application titled ‘Electronic Device Having Display and Surrounding Touch Sensitive Bezel for User Interface and Control,’ which was originally filed on June 23, 2006,” Neo reports for MacNN.
Neo reports, “Apple’s patent goes into great detail describing the chameleonic nature of a next generation touch screen iPod which will clearly be able to transform itself from being a music player to PDA to photo album and yes a cellular phone!”
Full article with patent application illustrations here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “LinuxGuy and Mac Prodigal Son” for the heads up.]
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Rasterbator,
“The moral of this story is:
Only Apple can build an iPod killer”
You are so dead on right!!!!
I can’t wait for the first Zune virus. Last weeks virus on an iPod from a windows machine should give MS a heads up, but they are probably too busy being mad at Apple for blaming them to do anything about it. Too bad.
Hah! While we’re all walking around with the latest greatest, Zuners will be quickly wiping their hands clean of Ballmer squirt.
Ahhhh, Peterson, you are a refreshing breath of cool air.
I had a friend like you once.