News & Reviews: Patent
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Feb 17, 2021
If you thought phones will stop at 144Hz, think again. In their quest to one-up each other, brands continue to push the hardware available in phones. Now, a new Apple patent shows that the company wants to push display tech further.
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Feb 13, 2021
With new tech, companies inevitably try out different ways to make it work. We've seen foldable smartphones that fold outwards and have a clamshell design. But have you seen one with both? A new patent from vivo could do just that.
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Feb 02, 2021
Every year, we see smartphones improve in specs only. That's kind of sad, as it would be great to also have radically new features. That might not happen soon, but at least companies like Samsung are improving existing features. Case in point, the pop-up camera.
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Jan 25, 2021
Previously, we've seen different smartphone patents showcase folding screens, sliding screens, and rollable screens. However, most of them only focus on one way instead of mixing them. Now, it is discovered that Xiaomi has patented a smartphone that not only has a full-screen design, but it also comes with a sliding mechanism for the rollable screen.
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Jan 22, 2021
Microsoft is working on bringing the dead back to life, or something similar to that. It is reported that the tech giant has granted a patent that uses the personal information of deceased people to build chatbots. Although we've seen such an idea happening in movies or TV series, it's still surprising knowing that it can be achieved in real life.
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Jan 18, 2021
Wow, Apple has sure been working on a lot of new techs lately. It's only the start of 2021, but we've already seen one patent for MacBooks and another two for iPhones. But that doesn't seem to be the end, as sources have now found another patent to detect voices.
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Jan 12, 2021
It seems that a patent regarding Huawei device that’s equipped with an in-display selfie camera may have been spotted, giving us a better idea on what to expect when it is officially available in the global market. Based on the patent, it seems that the smartphone in question will also come equipped with a quad-camera setup at the rear and no buttons towards the left side of the device.
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Jan 08, 2021
While there are only a few more days until the Samsung Galaxy S21 series launches, the company just filed a new patent to the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office). Spotted by LetsGoDigital, the patent is named Display Device and seems to be a phone with an under-display camera technology.
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Dec 29, 2020
This year, we have seen smartphone manufacturers proposed some ideas on how to make their own under-display camera. As we've heard, the feature is a challenging one to put on smartphones considering photo quality and some other technical problems. That's why we have to wait this long for it to become a mainstream feature in the smartphone market. Now, Samsung has been spotted with an idea as well as it involves a sub-display to hide the camera.
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Dec 16, 2020
The devices around keep getting more sophisticated, so it's not surprising that someday we'd see smartwatches have unexpected features. Apple has been looking to innovate on smartwatches too, but one of the company's latest idea is wilder than you'd expect.
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