Intel patents interweb phone

According to the patent number 7,120,140, Intel's funky phone will be a clever device "wherein all the functions of a digital telephone can be accessed and implemented on a personal computer alone, thereby eliminating the need for a telephone set."

Intel's phone will be a "graphical representation" of a telephone, which the user points at with a mouse or bashes at with a keyboard, in order to get it to work.

The firm hasn't yet said what it wants to do with such a drawing. µ