Microsoft phone copies the iPhone

A patent application that was published yesterday reveals a new mobile phone interface by Microsoft that looks uncannily like the iPhone. The patent, filed in July 2007, is called "Extensible filtered lists for mobile device user interface" and talks about how mobile phones are so complicated to use because they are chock-full of features. This problem, the patent application says, is "exacerbated by the generally limited user interfaces".

[Bonsai1214]

typical microsoft. apple's going to sue someone

[Umbrella Corp]

lol and microsoft will end up making more money

[Cat]

yeah, like the Zune. :P

/sarcasm

[Quickstrike]

M$ has no original ideas and has to copy from what is winning and sell it cheaper but itll break just by turning it on

[yo_mama123]

QFT

[YoMeViet]

innovations doesn't make you rich, stealing your opponent's ideas do
Things M$ copied from Apple:

Mac - Windows
iPod - Zune
iPhone - (insert unknown name here)

and not to mention stealing Halo from Apple

[Lionsguard]

It'll just RRoD on everyone. Most Americans will gobble it up though. They seem to like shoddy products that require constant fixing and replacement.

[AllroundGamer]

don't forget to turn on the automatic updates, otherwise it won't work :D

[Whoooop]

10 years??

[HarryEtTubMan]

I hate Micrsoft all the can do is FIND WHAT POPULAR, COPY IT, REPEAT(WHILE AT THE SAME TIME MAKING A SHATTY VERSION)

[SofaKingReetodded]

in the uncharted video thread just so you can see how FUNNY this news is when compared to what I wrote about MS in it......lol

[Spinitus]

a wag of the finger to M$

[chrno]

The Zune kinda looks like ipod too...MS really has no originality.

[ShadoWulf]

The zune has a button and also a screen! It's very much like an ipod! Of course, it's the ONLY PMP that looks anything like an ipod!

[Primetimebt]

Mircosoft can never come up with the own ideas. From playstations, to ipods, and iphones..

[Unknown]

me have much in common with MS.(Assuming you have the same view points as the aforementioned) You guys just keep copying each others thoughts or statements,posting them over and over again, using slightly different words to say the same things. Yep, I guess that means you guys have NO ORIGINALITY. Oh and for the record, SAMSUNG came out with the concept of a touch based GUI, not APPLE. LG PRADA came out BEFORE the iphone and it has the same type of interactivity as the iphone. Smart companies "copy" what works for other companies all the time. From Honda "copying" the design of the new camry to companies "copying" the George Foreman. Why would anyone not use something that is working well for their company and implement it into their company and improve on it? Thats one way in which techonolgy advances people.

[MikeGdaGod]

MS hardly ever improves on anything. they copy someone else, but their version is usually badly done (case n point - Vista). Windows and Office are the only exceptions.

[mirroredderorrim]

Touch GUI was around before Samsung, bro.
I don't usually get like this on N4G but stop handgliding on Microsofts scrotum. They have no originality. If you deny their history then you're denying reality.

I won't knock them for the console wars, they're doing marvelous. They made smart decisions in an industry they had no idea how to run.
They started by recruiting disfranchised developers from all over, former square employees, capcom, you name it, they got'em.

They bought all their people, though. It's what they do. They have enough money to buy. They buy innovation instead of starting it. They're not trend setters, they TAKE trends and steamroll the people who started it. The exception is Xbox Live and Ipod.

They will never beat out the Ipod.
Don't get me wrong, either..I will probably buy an Xbox 360.

[Ri0tSquad]

first vista now this.

[goodganja]

Doesnt surprise me. Look how much Micro$hit copied off of the PS3's hardware and the Mac's software? All Micro$hit wants to do is make an industry where its money over innovation.

P L A Y B 3 Y O N D

[ShadoWulf]

How could the 360 have copied PS3 hardware when it was released a year before?

[Chris_GTR1]

this isnt a phone. there isnt any pictures of a phone on there. its software ms is developing. there complaining about it because it looks like the iphone

[JosefTor]

I do know that Microsoft takes popular business models and improves upon them in some cases but... I do find a lot of peoples arguments and accusations lacking. Microsoft copied the playstation? Don't think so. Unless you think that Sony copied Sega. Copied the Ipod? What do you want Microsoft to do... make a cube? A rectangular device with a large screen and control on the bottom makes sense... it isn't copying. After looking at the attached webpage about copying the iphone... I was wondering if the iPhone stole its interface from Microsoft outlook or some other email program. What do you want... emails in no particular order? The image thing... that just makes sense to show the big image in the middle and smaller images to the side.

[supermandead666]

First Microsoft copy APPLE MAC OS now they copy APPLE IPHONE, that Microsoft for u there.

[Pain]

Cant beat a motto like that.

[SlappyMcTaint]

QFT

[honorable1]

I can't believe that people who live in a society that is generally driven by money (I say generally because their are a few people who are not) would try to take an idea and then make it work for them as well.

Since we are on this subject why are all of you walking around? Don't you know that their was some being before you that was already walking! You people can't come up with anything on your own. All you do is copy everyone else and try to make it work best for you.

I blame the public education systems, did you know that they actually teach you things that other people figured out? Blasphemous jerks! They then go on to teach you how to use this newly acquired knowledge to make a better life for yourself! It's just outrageous I tell you.

Then did you know that the people who work at Microsoft, really aren't people at all. They are cybernetic soulless machines whose only thought patterns consists of taking all of your money and giving you a horrible product. They don't have needs or wants like the rest of us, no they don't even understand the concept of wanting to make a better life for themselves. I highly doubt that any of them even have children and if such foul demons could produce offspring there is no way that they would want to provide for them!

Oh an please let us bow our heads and pray for the bringer of all that is righteous, Sony! For truly they have invented everything and have brought light to this darkened world. Truly they have never copied anything from anyone and are the true masters of design. Without a doubt they are the higher power that designed this world, or at least they created evolution!

Now seriously sometimes I do worry about my fellow person, after reading most of the comments. This is why I want to get a Wii, the Wii people are just happy all over the place. I love the 360 and the PS3 but watching the two sides take pot shots at each other is becoming more and more ridiculous. You learn from the competition guys, you try to cut out their flaws and take on their strengths, it's how you grow.

For those of you that stayed on topic about the phone congrats to you, to the rest of you, be ashamed. If this does come out has anyone caught wind of which provider will carry it?