Google toys with major Android redesign as patent wars heat up |
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| Google toys with major Android redesign as patent wars heat up |
![]() The always-eagle-eyed PatentBolt has spotted a new patent application from Google (GOOG) that indicates the company is designing a way to bring radial menus to its Android and Chrome devices. From the initial designs, it looks as though the radial menus will not be visible on the screen until a user makes a swipe gesture from the edge of a device. Once the swipe is made, a semicircle menu pops up in the section of the screen where the swipe was made. The logic behind the semicircle menu is to save screen real estate and give users a simpler way to access different features of their applications. If Google is looking to dodge bullets with its new design, however, it may be out of luck: As PatentBolt notes that Apple (AAPL) has filed two patents for similar technology over the past couple of years. Android radial menu patent: UI redesign in works to dodge patent heat? |
| 07-31-2012, 04:49 PM | away - #2 | |
And this !! is awesome too its already in the Android browser, once you try it its hard to live without. | ||
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| 07-31-2012, 05:32 PM | away - #3 |
| This has been out for a while now lol cool feature though. I hope they implement it into the chrome browser | |
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| 07-31-2012, 06:39 PM | away - #4 | |
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| 08-02-2012, 09:02 AM | away - #5 |
| so sick of apple trying to run the phone game with their archaic devices.... did post this from a macbook tho[pic] | |
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| 08-02-2012, 09:24 AM | away - #6 | |
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