At technology shows, the Korean company has also demonstrated flexible screens just 0.3mm thick.

Its latest video demo shows off truly out there technology a tablet of the future that offers instant translation video and a level of 3D beyond anything yet available.

Samsung has said that it will start to ship ‘bendy screened’ gadgets in the first half of 2012 with the first ‘flexible’ gizmos on the market certain to be mobile phones.

Samsung’s transparent  flexible AMOLED screen isn’t as wacky as it seems.

The company has already promised that it will ship flexible AMOLED devices in 2012, starting with mobile phones.

This is where it all starts to get a little far-fetched the screen seems to be able to ‘throw’ a holographic 3D image so solid it looks like you could touch it. Glasses free 3D does exist .

The screen has the functions of a high end tablet computer  and appears to be able to translate instantly from French into Korean Language.

But while Samsung’s video demo might be ‘concept technology’.

Factories in the Far East are already working on ‘real’ versions flexible phones that will hit the market in early 2012.

Both Samsung and Nokia are working on the technology.

During a company results conference, investor relations chief Robert Yi said, ‘The flexible display, we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part.’

Yi said that the first devices to ship with flexible screens would be phones.

Other possible applications include ‘foldable’ iPad style tablets.

It’s not an out-there prediction, either.

Rival smartphone giant Nokia unveiled a basic prototype of the Nokia Kinectic a bendable smartphone at Nokia World.

Kinectic allowed users to bend the screen to control functions such as music and video.

Nokia refuses to say when its Kinectic smartphones will be on sale.

Earlier Samsung demonstrations have shown off OLED screens which can be folded over.

The company demonstrated ‘bendable’ AMOLED screens 4.5 inches across and just 0.3mm thick in January this year.

Another paper by Samsung scientists showed off an AMOLED screen with a section that could be folded over completely without cracking.

Mr. Chen Yue said the Windows Phone handset will launch in China in the second half of 2012. No pricing was available.

Computer and electronics giant Lenovo is looking to broaden its stable of smartphones to include a Windows Phone handset next year.

The news was presented by Lenovo product manager Chen Yue at a press conference that announced new phones aimed at the Chinese market.

there were no announcements regarding international availability.

But this has to be seen as a win for Microsoft as they try to woo and retain OEM partners for its nascent mobile ecosystem.

China Lenovo may see stiff competition for their WP7 handset Nokia will launch the Lumia 800 well ahead of them.

Lenovo is also a producer of Android phones and tablets.

But isn’t a big player in any mobile ecosystem so far.

With a minimal investment in both ecosystems.

Lenovo may act as a bellwether company if any major shift happens in the smartphone market in 2012 since they could easily favor whichever OS they feel offers the best opportunity.

No less than 323 Apple patents list Jobs among the inventors responsible for them.

Now the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is honoring the Apple founder with a dedicated exhibit.

The late Steve Jobs has been hailed as a brilliant businessman, marketer, and visionary.

He was also an prolific inventor, if the number of patents bearing his name are any indication.

The Patents and Trademarks of Steve Jobs, Art and Technology that Changed the World puts Jobs’ patents on display in the USPTO’s National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum.

Conceived by the nonprofit Invent Now, the exhibit has a look that’s instantly recognizable  30 giant size iPhones, lined up screen to screen in a simple rectangular formation, like a military salute designed by Jonathan Ive.

Most prominently, Samsung has been engaged in patent wars with Apple over how closely its Galaxy products mimic the design and operation of iPhones and iPads, as shown in this infographic.

To a lesser extent, Nokia, Motorola, and even LG have tussled with Apple over patent infringement.

The Jobs exhibit kicked off Nov, 16 and is on display until Jan. 15, 2012. Located in the atrium of the Madison Building on the USPTO’s campus in Alexandria, Va.

it’s free to attend during the museum’s regular business hours.

Among the patents Jobs is credited with, Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs, which essentially patented the iPod clickwheel.

Voicemail manager for portable multifunction device, the basis for the iPhone’s visual voicemail; and 13 separate patents on product packaging alone.

Nokia’s new Lumia 800 model finally goes on sale, and the first time the Finnish giant will really be able to gauge what consumers really think of their first credible offering in a number of years.

The Lumia 800 features a premium polycarbonate uni-body design, a 1.4 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 512 MB of RAM, a Clear Black AMOLED display with a WVGA resolution of 800×480 and an 8 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics.

The phone also features 16GB of internal storage as well as a unique curved glass display.

As analysts CCS Insight put it, “Nokia still faces a Herculean task to re-establish itself in the smartphone market, which will remain dominated by Google Android and Apple in the near term.”

The key difference between Nokia past and present is its new tie-up with Microsoft.

Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft executive, decided the Finnish giant should switch to Windows from the dog-eared ‘Symbian’ almost as soon as he took over.

But with Google now occupying more than half of all UK smartphone sales and launching its own flagship model.

Plus Apple’s creative dominance well-established, it’s no wonder that Nokia is accompanying the new Lumia 800 model with an unprecedented marketing push.

Entire buildings will be used as posters for projectors, network Orange is even giving a free Xbox 360 to Lumia customers and it will be hard to avoid Nokia’s new slogan“The Amazing Everyday”.

it’s those networks who are desperate for Nokia and its Microsoft Windows Phone operating system to succeed.

A new front against Apple and Google dominance will generate further interest in smartphones.

Nokia Lumia users will, later in the year, be able to create personalised channels from a global catalogue of millions of tracks and with Nokia Music’s Gigfinder search for live local music as well as the ability to share discoveries on social networks and buy concert tickets.

Nokia announced a new suite of feature phones that are designed for emerging markets.

Named the Asha line, the phones have specific features such as QWERTY keyboards, touchscreens, or dual-SIM capabilities.

We got some hands-on time with the Asha phones (the Asha 200, 201, 300, and 303) during the Nokia World conference.

The Asha 200 and 201 are very similar, save for the 200’s dual-SIM capabilities.

Both phones feature full QWERTY keyboards and run Nokia’s S40 feature phone platform that has the ability to run and install apps from the Nokia Store.

Though the phones are all-plastic, they are well put together, and I didn’t find any issues with the construction during my brief hands on with them.

Nokia did not announce what processor is in the 200/201, but both phones seemed responsive enough for typical tasks.

The Asha 200 is expected to hit shelves by the end of this year for about 60 EUR (US$84).

The 201 will be available in 2012 for the same cost.

The Asha 300 and 303 come pre-loaded with Nokia’s new Browser for S40 that can compress web pages by as much as 90 percent, saving data and reducing page load times.

They are also equipped with Angry Birds out of the box, and each phone uses a unique, one-finger diagonal swipe across the screen to zoom in on the game.

All of the Asha phones are equipped with remarkably loud speakers, which were easily heard over the loud din of the showroom floor at Nokia World.

The Asha 300 is expected to hit emerging markets in the fourth quarter of 2011 for 85 EUR (US$118).

The Asha 303 will be available at the same time for approximately 115 EUR (US$160).

The Asha line of phones gives us a look at Nokia’s plan for the rest of the world that isn’t yet smartphone crazy, be that because of economic or other reasons.

Feature phones may not capture the imagination of Western phone buyers, but for those in developing countries, they are their lifeline to the internet and the outside world.

The Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710 are the first fruits of the Microsoft-Nokia alliance, a high-stakes gamble in a daunting battle with Apple, Google, and others for relevance in the fast-growing mobile-computing market.

Troubled cell-phone maker Nokia today made a long anticipated move to recapture a share of the fiercely competitive smart phone market with the launch of two handsets running Microsoft’s Windows mobile software.

Over the last five years, Nokia has experienced a dramatic reversal in fortunes.

The company once dominated the high-end phone market with its Symbian-powered phones, but Apple’s iPhone and devices running Google’s Android have jumped ahead.

Nokia still sells many low-end phones, especially in developing countries, but this market could disappear as more powerful devices proliferate.

Time is also running out.

Amid fierce competition, sales of Nokia smart phones fell 34 percent in 2010, but sales of its low-end phones also fell 16 percent.

The company’s market value has halved since February, and third-quarter results showed its smart-phone sales down 38 percent compared with last year.

The new Windows phones were unveiled during company CEO Stephen Elop’s keynote speech at the Nokia World event in London.

“We are signaling our intent right now, here today, to be today’s leaders in smart phone design and craftsmanship,” said Elop, a former Microsoft executive who signed the partnership deal with Microsoft in February.

The hardware unveiled by Nokia offered few surprises, however.

The Lumia 800 design is identical to that of the Nokia N9.

Inside it is a 1.4-gigahertz processor and 512 megabytes of RAM, which lags behind the dual-core chips boasted by the iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy 5.

The Lumia has a 3.7-inch AMOLED 800-by-480 screen that sits under curved glass to give it a raised effect, and an eight-megapixel camera with an f2.2 aperture lens that will let in more light than most other phones, although the lack of a front-facing camera may put off those who use video calling.

The phone is 12 millimeters thick, which is bulkier than the latest Android phones.

In a swipe at other manufacturers, such as HTC and Samsung, that have already launched Windows phones, added “Lumia is the first real Windows phone.”

Nokia has done with this mobile gadget  Nokia calls it a “kinetic device,” a prototype with a flexible display the company showed at Nokia World 2011 in London.

Instead of the pinch to zoom capabilities copied throughout the smartphone industry.

Nokia has come up with a novel way to accomplish the same thing When you bend and twist this handset.

The image on its screen does your bidding in a highly intuitive way.

One of the advantages Nokia touts for such a device is the ability to use it without looking at it for instance, twisting it in your pocket to dismiss a call or change song on a music player.

How does it work? According to CNET, a Nokia demonstrator said the company was experimenting with bundles of carbon nanotubes whose  properties change when they’re stretched.

Those nanotubes are embedded in a flexible substance that allows the device to control the screen when twisted and bent.

An additional advantage.

The device is much tougher and is water resistant, too.

We’ve heard of displays that might be capable of folding like a newspaper and rolled up like a tube, but the idea of controlling by bending is different.

Imagine the possibilities, Perhaps it could be used by blind people, where the bending properties of the device would not require vision to intuitively control a smartphone.

When will we see such a thing in the real world? Nokia’s not saying precisely when its kinetic device will be released, but one rep tells IntoMobile in the video embedded below, “hopefully soon.”

NOKIA has launched its long-awaited first Windows 7 smartphones, hoping to claw back market share it has lost in the smartphone race to chief rivals, Apple, Samsung and Google.

With price tags of $560 and $360, the Lumia 800 and 710 are based on Microsoft’s operating system and come eight months after Nokia and the computing giant said they were hitching up.

Lumia 800, with Carl Zeiss optics and 16GB of internal memory, will be available in selected European countries in November, including France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and Britain.

It will be sold in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan before the year end.

Lumia 710, with a 1.4 GHz processor, navigational applications and Nokia Music a free, mobile music streaming app will first be available in Hong Kong, India, Russia, Singapore and Taiwan toward the end of the year.

The company’s share price jumped almost 3 per cent in an otherwise depressed market on the Helsinki Stock Exchange but settled, closing almost unchanged at ($6.68).

Nokia, which claims 1.3 billion daily users, has been the world’s biggest handset maker since 1998, selling 432 million devices last year – more than its three closest rivals combined.

Worse still, Nokia’s sales in the more lucrative smartphone market crashed 39 per cent in the third quarter as it continued to be squeezed in the low end by Asian manufacturers like ZTE and in the high end by the iPhone, Research in Motion’s Blackberry, Korea’s Samsung Electronics and Taiwan-based HTC Corp.

The iPhone has set the standard for smartphones among many design-conscious consumers and the Blackberry has been the favourite of the corporate set.

Google’s Android software has emerged as the choice for phone makers that want to challenge the iPhone.

Samsung and HTC – snapping at Nokia’s heels for third place in topend smartphones behind the iPhone and Samsung – are the biggest users of the Android platform.

Nokia is still operating Symbian software, older than Apple’s software and considered clumsy by many, although it has been upgraded.

Nokia also introduced the MeeGo platform in its flagship N9 model launched last month.

The announcement comes from the president of Microsoft‘sWindows Phone division Andy Lees.

Nokia will show off the first Nokia Windows Phones to the world at the Nokia World event on Oct. 26-27 in London.

This is in line with the previous announcement that the first WP devices from Nokia will hit Europe this year, but an official date has been locked down.

Nokia also plans to show more than one device, since Lees used plural Nokia phones.

He also said that Nokia’s devices will have differentiating hardware and software, meaning we’re not just going to see Windows Phone Mango in a slightly different shell.

Nokia has recently cut a significant portion of its workforce, mostly as a result of poor smartphone sales.

It simply cannot risk another failure with Windows Phone devices, and we eagerly await to see what they have in stock for this holiday season.

The original batch of Windows Phone 7 smartphones all had very similar hardware, per Microsoft’s specifications.

This report may have been confirmed by an announcement that the LiMo Foundation and the Linux Foundation will building a new open source platform called Tizen.

Which is scheduled for a Q1 2012 release.

The OS will be targeting smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems.

There has been no official confirmation that Intel and Samsung are, in fact, the major industry forces behind this new platform.

The German edition of the Financial Times recently reported that Intel and Samsung may be merging the failed MeeGo OS with LiMo and create a new Linux based operating system with strong HTML5 support to support their hardware platforms.

Intel’s MeeGo hopes died with Nokia’s decision to dump all efforts and focus on Windows Phone. Previously, Intel promoted Moblin Linux with its first generation Atom processors with Silverthorne core in 2008.

Moblin was based on Asianux, which included components of RedFlag Linux, Miracle Linux and HannSoft.

ntel has not had much luck with its operating system ideas, but Tizen could be of a different caliber as it appears to be backed by Samsung as well.

If that is the case, however, there may be new rumors what will happen to HP’s WebOS, as Samsung was rumored to be one of the bidders to acquire the software.