New Patent Filing: Confirms RIM working on multi-touch phone

Analysts have been talking about Research in Motion developing a multi-touch phone for a while now, but a newly published filing at the US Patent and Trademark Office confirms this.

RIM are working on multi-touch technology for their smartphones, the Patent filing reports “method of integrating a touchscreen within an LCD, depicts an array of parallel electrodes which register input as changes in voltage are detected, triggered by pressure from either fingers or a stylus”.

This will be in direct competition to Apple’s iPhone and the Blackberry already has a big following.

Source: Read | Via macdaily

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