cellpassion.mobi - 12/26/2008
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Patent Application 20080313857 filed with the USPTO hints at a future Nokia Communicator that will be much more 'brick-ier' than the existing ones. And part of the blame would go to its mind bogling four-way folding form factor! Yup, it has got no less than four hinges, which when unfolded ...
unwiredview.com - 12/24/2008
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unwiredview.com —
While Nokia N97 is the Finns’ first smartphone
to feature a touchscreen and a full QWERTY keyboard,
the unannounced Nokia 6208 Classic is (almost) the first to have a touchscreen and a regular, alphanumeric keypad. Yes, you’ve heard well, the giant ...
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Nokia 6208 Classic has a touchscreen and an ...
engadget.com - 12/27/2008
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engadget.com —
Not that Nokia's current Communicator is in need
of a major refacing or anything, but we're always
up for some innovation . A recent patent application from the outfit showcases a completely bizarre four-way folding Communicator, chock full of ...
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Nokia dreams up four-way folding Communicator
unwiredview.com - 12/28/2008
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unwiredview.com —
Nokia 6208c pops up on Nokia China’s web
site Fashioned from Nokia’s first touchscreen with a built-in
keypad hybrid, the Nokia 6708, the Nokia 6208c is now official on Nokia’s Chinese web site. This handset has been confirmed to be running Nokia’s ...
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Nokia 6208c pops up on Nokia China’s web site
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Brevetto per il nuovo Nokia Communicator?
P@ssioneMobile —
... Cellpassion segnala alcune immagini di un brevetto depositato da Nokia ”alludendo” al futuro Communicator…sarà il ”definitivo”? ...
Nokia dreams up four-way folding Communicator
Engadget —
... up for some innovation. A recent patent application from the outfit showcases a completely bizarre four-way folding Communicator, chock full of hinges, keys and pixels. In fact, the verbiage spells out a future device consisting of "at least four device parts," leaving open the option for a handset that miraculously unfolds to completely envelope you in a glass case of emotion. Hit the read link for the full dream spilled out in entirely too much detail. [Via Cellpassion] Filed under: Cellphones Nokia dreams up four-way folding ...
Nokia's folding keyboard looks like a challenge
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... a major hurdle to miniaturization. QWERTY will not be replaced, and our hands cannot simply be shrunken. This leaves us with a practical minimum of perhaps 70-90% size of a standard layout. Any smaller, and it becomes troublesome for most people to touch-type.
Today's imaginative solution to this problem comes from Nokia, which filed a patent for a particularly weird folding keyboard. Particularly cool: close inspection reveals the display itself is flexible.
[Cellpassion via Ubergizmo, etc.]
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Nokia's 4-way Xmas patent
core77.com 12/27/2008 —
iPhone ShmiPhone--Nokia filed a patent on Christmas Day for a new type of communication device, one with a rather unusual form factor: It folds out into four distinct parts. Two of the parts act as a screen, apparently straddled by some type of ...