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thinking Nintendo Phone?
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Nintendo has been admiring Apple for a while now, borrowing ideas, aesthetics, and lowercase "i's" from the computer company for several years. Apple recently announced the iPhone, but a patent filed by Nintendo in 2001 indicates the Japanese giant was well ahead of Apple on this one.

engadget imobile has found a patent for a Nintendo Phone. Initially filed in 2001, and issued just last June, the patent describes an "electronic apparatus having game and telephone functions," and details how the device would pause a game for an incoming call and resume after the call was completed.

Of course, big companies file patents and trademarks on an almost daily basis, and the chances of the Nintendo Phone coming to fruition are slim to none. But seeing patents like this always makes us wonder what else Nintendo has been working on that we don't know about??

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Somehow I know TJ is going to buy this if it comes out. lol
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