Sony Ericsson's Remote Control Phone
7 March 2007 by axxxr According to a patent Sony Ericsson have come up with the idea of turning a mobile phone into a universal remote control.
Sony Ericsson envisages a touchscreen remote control that can display different remote control user interfaces, while the phone itself contains the necessary electronics to control a home device such as your TV or Hi-Fi. the general idea is of making your mobile phone an actual remote control, capable of switching TV channels, calling up and controlling a TV programme guide, operating your DVD or VCR, in other words, everything you'd want a remote control to control. Sony Ericsson's idea is even more ingenious, though, as they anticipate the remote contorl user interface being implemented as a 'skin', which can be downloaded onto the phone either from the device itself or from a website.Now the question must surely be "why has Sony Ericsson not released this feature yet?" as this patent was filed on August 26th 2005. Of all the amazing features crammed into mobile phones over the past few years, surely this one is a killer app. source:Patent Page mobilementalism
Comments On 10 Mar 12:12 Alvin wrote it was about time! i was searching for an application like that a long time ago. but i found thats its only available for smart phones. thats good news for a lot of us. p.s: modify a version of the W810 to use that software. but don't change anything else!!! On 9 Mar 17:20 the wrote nice On 8 Mar 23:04 PB wrote This is a patent APPLICATION, not a patent. So it may be two years until it is granted - IF it is granded. On 8 Mar 19:28 LL wrote it would be great just to have volume up down ,channel step up and down, on off,mute well the basic stuff. the problem is the ir has to be of a special kind not the one usally on E/// mobiles . but how hard can it be to implement?!! i think some of the nokia smart models have the consumer IR as it is called On 8 Mar 12:00 Dave wrote Software has been available that allowes this for at least 2 years. On 8 Mar 00:55 sergio1 wrote THIS FEATURE IS VERY I-M-P-O-R-T-A-N-T because is VERY USEFULL !!! Great Sony Ericsson phones, with great ideas !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I expect in the future , that Sony Ericsson took no.1 place !!! Have HIGH quality, but displays have to be much BIGGER !!! (K & W series). THE JOYSTICK IS NO. 1 PROBLEM, that must be removed for ever !!! GO SE , GO GO , GO WITH SUCCES IN THE TOP OF MOBILE PHONES !!! On 8 Mar 00:20 Kuwaiti wrote many softwares can do this feature like psiloc On 8 Mar 00:16 Roogenial wrote Would be nice!! Go SE go!! On 7 Mar 22:17 CarlK wrote Yeah that's the S700 On 7 Mar 16:26 Luke wrote Its just that no hardware manufacturer has integrated that feature into a phone only 3rd party solutions. On 7 Mar 14:24 holland wrote maybe i don't understand the article correct; but isn't this a bit old? even my ancient HP ipaq got a feature like that. On 7 Mar 07:52 globe wrote is that S700i? On 7 Mar 05:15 Ranjith wrote nice idea...the one already available in the phone is great too! R |
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