Over at CEATEC, Fujitsu’s showing off a snazzy dual touchscreen smartphone with a hinge that allows them to stack vertically or horizontally. And the most exciting part? They’ve let UI wizards The Astonishing Tribe loose to make the software. Watch.
The device is just a prototype, but the hardware – and especially its magical hinge – looks like it’s pretty far along at this point. The video shows the dual 960×480 displays seamlessly scrolling content, but what’s even more exciting is the flick-to-share interface TAT has whipped up for photos, reminiscent of the awesome screens-of-the-future video they teased us with last month.
There’s no word on when or if the transformer phone might come to market, but it is very cool to see in a real, working state nonetheless. Give TAT some crazy hardware and things start looking futuristic awfully fast. [TAT via Engadget]




















Jie Ma
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 12:41 PMGod, that’s horrible! This is when design overwhelms usability.
Stew
Thursday, October 7, 2010 at 3:49 PMI like it! I think it’s quite innovative. Sure it’s new and might need some tweaks down the line, but I’ve never seen anything like it before.
Also, the Japanese love that kind of stuff (long thin clamshell phones, emoticons).