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?

BGR is some slow mother!!ers. Google got the patent because it doesnt overlap with the two referenced apple patents at all. Apples patents arent gesture based, they are just regular menus in a circle, that doesnt overlap with this patent of googles for gesture based menus.

And this !! is awesome too its already in the Android browser, once you try it its hard to live without.

This has been out for a while now lol cool feature though. I hope they implement it into the chrome browser

^^^^ This.

so sick of apple trying to run the phone game with their archaic devices....

did post this from a macbook tho[pic]

you see who brenda song is with? mileys brother...

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