appft1.uspto.gov - 12/26/2008
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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 hinges, keys and pixels. In fact, the verbiage spells out a ...
engadget.com - 12/27/2008
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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
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 ...
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Nokia patent hints at future Communicator!
blog.makezine.com - 1/2/2009
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Secretly shoot your voice across the room on
a laser beam. Thanks go to Simon Quellen Field
for the original article in Make: Volume 16 View the PDF Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in MAKE PDF | Digg this!
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Weekend Project: Simple Laser Communicator (PDF)
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Nokia dreams up four-way folding Communicator
Engadget —
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 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 ...
Latest Nokia patent suggests we may see a four-way folding Communicator
IntoMobile - Cell Phone News, Information, and Analysis —
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be onto something or at least their latest patent filling suggests so. What we have here is a weird looking phone, which sports kinda bizarre four-way folding mechanism, as you can see from the image above. Scrap that, the patent says there are “at least four device parts,” hinting us we could see a true transformer handset at some point in the future.
Is this an idea for the next Nokia Communicator or what? We’re not sure and we may never know. Still, there’s a hope Nokia can pull something out of it and, like Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), “re-invent the phone.”
[Via: Engadget]
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