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I want to take a break from my quest for the perfect 3G phone to talk about a new patent that’s been issued for smart phones that has the potential to change the handheld game forever.

The European Patent Office has issued a patent for Innoventions, Inc’s RotoView “tilt-and-scroll” smartphone display navigation technology. The RotoView technology can also be used by portable navigation devices and other such gadgets. The company already possesses a US patent for the technology.

With the technology, a user can simply tilt the mobile electronic device to the left, right, up or down to scroll to information not contained on the screen. For example, if you’re using your handheld to navigate via a map, you can tilt your phone in the appropriate direction to scroll the map to a location of interest. You can also zoom in or out using the RotoView technology.

Innoventions isn’t the first company to combine accelerometers and navigation displays, but in most cases, the accelerometers are used to rotate a display a fixed 90 degrees. With this application, users can scroll the display in any direction or any number of degrees.

Sadly, Innoventions is not in the business of making smartphones, but is looking to market the technology to manufacturers that do. Anybody?