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Samsung's Mobile Phone Form-Factor Patents Are Weird
Posted by Jason Chen at 6:20 AM on July 25, 2008
Unwired View just dug through several of Samsung's patents to get at what the types of form factors possibly rolling out of their trough in the near future. They're all weird.
There's sliders three keyboard pieces that form together to make one Voltron keyboard, one that has a dual-screen clamshell (which we've seen before in other people's patents), one with OLED hard-keys that change displays depending on where you are (think Optimus) and one with a display that stretches from normal size to King Kong/Naomi Watts/weird bestiality theme size. We're not sure how these will actually play out on phones, but it's good that Samsung's not standing still. [Unwired View]
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Alluvian
Posted 7:21 AM 25/7/08
Yeah, the screen either rolls up or is HIGHLY elastic.
In the fully folded up mode, the layout of the hardbuttons seems retarded though. Why not have them laid out as a keypad to make simple dialing something easy to do without opening up the device?
Alluvian
BoinK
Posted 7:11 AM 25/7/08
@kOtic: That's what I thought when I saw it as well. Could be cool if executed well.
BoinK
kOtic
Posted 6:52 AM 25/7/08
It looks to me like a screen that rolls itself up inside that bottom piece and when you open it up, it unrolls itself like a projector screen.
kOtic
man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.
Posted 6:47 AM 25/7/08
Voltron references ftw. Otherwise, I have no clue what those pictures are supposed to mean.
man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.
hakubak
Posted 6:37 AM 25/7/08
That looks like a one-handed cut - one of the few card manipulation tricks I can actually perform.
hakubak
talkingsandwich
Posted 6:26 AM 25/7/08
even as a mechanical engineer i have no idea what those pictures mean
talkingsandwich
kapitan
Posted 3:40 AM 26/7/08
Did that phone just pop a tent?
kapitan