Palm’s new patent-isn’t it endangered?

Palm reently got a patent on a screen that goes monochrome when the power of the handheld containing it gets low:

http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/8527/palm-receives-display-technology-patent/

While I don’t quite understand whats the great deal of innovation behing powering off the backlight and switching to 1bit color mode(a Tungsten T could do this with the neccecary addon software, as can my T3), there may actually be a prior art issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$100_laptop#Display

If you look at the page given above, you will see that the 100$ notebook that is buzzing around the media for a long time now(we almost got close to a prototype once btw, but our informant bailed in the last second) already seems to do that.

Also, I can recall that the good ole T68i did something similar when displaying the time…

Dont ask me, but I dont really get the idea behind this patent. Feel free to help us out!

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