It’s Apple patent watching time! It looks like the iPhone 5 could introduce a new way of navigating through your iOS contacts graphically rather than having to flick through a text-based list. Apple details using a grid of thumbnail photographs of your contacts with the ability to tap the photo to get at their information.
A nice touch is that Apple plans to collect individuals in groups with people from the same company all grouped behind the company’s logo. The patent also includes scope for using the mosaic-style layout for music. Whether we’ll see this feature pop up in time for iPhone 5 is obviously a mystery but it certainly sounds like a feature which would play well on a Retina Display.
Out TBC | £TBC | Apple (via AppleInsider)
