A patent for iPhone “Slide to unlock”

If it is indeed a
constant of the iPhone since 2007, amanipulation
carried out dozens of times a day by mobile owners
d’Apple, this is the unlocking movement performed on the screen
when the phone has no lock code.

Apple has just been granted the patent on this famous "Slide to
unlock" :

The patent application dated from 2009 and it is now done, the office
American patent granted Apple paternity of this method of
unlocking which prevents the phone from turning on by itself in the
few.

Meanwhile Android has proposed another unlocking method based on
a dot matrix, while it is unlikely that this patent will succeed in
curb Asian clone manufacturers. But on paper, it's
Apple property now!

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founder of the site. Computer engineer and Internet specialist where he has held various positions of responsibility, Laurent has been passionate about mobility since the arrival of "PDAs" in the 90s. Journalist for 4 years for the magazine Team Palmtops (Posse Presse) and author of several books on the iPad published by Pearson.