As the world’s leading manufacturer of mobile phones Nokia is not one to sit back politely and miss out on the touchscreen wars being waged by Apple, but will their Haptikos technology revoluntionise touch?

Taking their tactile technology to the bounds of comprehension for the lay inventor the patent speaks of creating “… variable and controllable user perceived surface roughness or friction coefficient“ by placing a “…plurality of closely spaced voltage controllable protuberances” that alter on the surface of the touchscreen.

With a working prototype and hard at work on drag and scrolling functions, Nokia may be about to take it to the iPhone once and for all.

Here is some of the inspired concepts we found for the iphone. Dont be surprised to find one of these concepts on apple’s shelves in the near future. We all know how much steve job loves to be “tomorrow”

And here is the iphone 3G video conferencing kit…. soon to be available on all 3G iPhone across the United States and Canada :

There was much excitement at earlier suggestions of the Apple patent that would allow iPhone users to order coffee at Starbucks without queuing, but will a new patent add to this already sexy proposition?

The new application widens the scope of the previous patent allowing access to local content, ticketing, events and even reviews of local merchants the greater concept allowing users to act on their location-bvased needs directly from their mobile device.

While not alone in this quest, Apple have thrown their hat in the ring of what promises to be a very lucrative location-based advertiser market.

HTC latest patent illustrates a convenient business phone with a QWERTY keyboard and dialpad . The following pictures will give you an idea of how the future model will be used: