Just when you thought that cellphone form factors had been pushed to the
very limit of reality and pocket bulge, Samsung pushes it a little bit further. They've just been rewarded a patent for a "sliding-clamshell" design, claiming to beat the respective limits of clamshells (small screens), and sliders (size and screen damage). To us it looks like they've managed to adopt all the bulk of a slider and then wrapped a chunky clamshell around it, but we'll give them the benefit of the doubt. When open the device can serve as a gaming device or just a big ass handset, and when closed the corrugated hing wraps around the bulky screen to keep it safe and warm. With as much crap as we give this thing, we'd still love to see it in action, but we're not quite ready to buy a man purse or two just to carry it around.
[Thanks, Allen]
posted May 20th 2006 7:01PM
It looks so nutty that I can't help but root for it!
I hope we see a real product from this, or at least some sort of prototype we can gab about.
It will never make it market, the foldover of three components, the top, bottom and screen will make it 50% thicker than any clamshell on the market, ie, too thick.
50% thicker than any clamshell on the market? Well last I heard, both the RAZR and BLADE were on the market, and a phone 50% thicker than either of those models is still pretty thin!
I think you're being too judgemental without seeing any real substantial information concerning this idea.
Looks cool.. Not as cool as my rotary cellphone will look, but still cool.
hehe. man purse. heeh.