Smelly Samsung Phones

Samsung has submitted a patent application for a mobile phone which would include a "perfume container" which can then spray the perfume out, either when a button is pressed on the handset, or when the phone receives a phone call. Presumably if a handset came with several containers you could have a nice smell for friends and family and a not so pleasant odour for calls from your boss ?

The purpose of the patent is not actually new, but Samsung are claiming to have overcome several problems inherent in previous applications which gives them a lot more control over the quantity of perfume that is emitted each time. The pressure unit may also include a heater to heat the perfume stored in the perfume chamber, a piezoelectric element unit to pressurize perfume stored in the perfume chamber and/or an ultrasonic exciting unit to excite perfume stored in the perfume chamber.

The patent number is US 2006/0062408 A1"

Posted to the site on 27th March 2006