http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/08/two-new-blackberry-patents/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:42:37 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2006/09/08/two-new-blackberry-patents/comment-page-1/#comment-46213 BlackBerry Cool » BlackBerry’s understand their place - literally Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:43:48 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/?p=2259#comment-46213 [...] Thanks to a superb tip, we’re giving you some new patent information - but this one is actually interesting, we swear. News from NewScientist.com shows that a context-aware BlackBerry could be on it’s way. Context aware? Does that mean what you think it does? You bet it does. Your BlackBerry will know where you are and how it should behave itself - you know, just like we did when we were kids. Digressions aside, the details are pretty exciting. “The new BlackBerrys would occasionally and very briefly vibrate. This should be too short to be mistaken for a message alert but just long enough for an accelerometer inside the device to measure how much it moves. This tells the Blackberry whether it is on top of a flat table, in a person’s hand or stuffed inside a pocket.” [...] [...] Thanks to a superb tip, we’re giving you some new patent information – but this one is actually interesting, we swear. News from NewScientist.com shows that a context-aware BlackBerry could be on it’s way. Context aware? Does that mean what you think it does? You bet it does. Your BlackBerry will know where you are and how it should behave itself – you know, just like we did when we were kids. Digressions aside, the details are pretty exciting. “The new BlackBerrys would occasionally and very briefly vibrate. This should be too short to be mistaken for a message alert but just long enough for an accelerometer inside the device to measure how much it moves. This tells the Blackberry whether it is on top of a flat table, in a person’s hand or stuffed inside a pocket.” [...]

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