Nokia Prepares the Next Gen Batteries; Self-Regenerating and Piezoelectric-Based

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Nokia recently announced that they want to patent a "piezoelectric kinetic energy harvester", a way to capture energy from the phone's movements. This may remind you of the kinetic wristwatches, based on the same principles and generating clean energy. Nokia's technology allows the heavy internal components to move on rails within ...

Nokia Preps Swivel Widescreen Phone, Patent Approved

Sunday, December 14th, 2008

Nokia's not ready to rest after announcing the mighty N97 and leaking that mysterious touch handset, which proved not to be real thing. So, the Finns recently patented a swivel portable device that features a full QWERTY keyboard. As you can see in the image below, the handset's widescreen display is ...

Nokia Gesture-Based Phones, The Future?

Sunday, November 23rd, 2008

Nokia got the patent for gesture-based control on its mobile in early 2008 and they might use it to counter the ever-popular trend of manufacturing touchscreen phones. They barely made it on the touch market with the 5800 XpressMusic, which has yet to be launched and the public is already ...