It's hard enough for some of us to go a few months without losing a one-piece cellphone, but imagine the hilarity that'll ensue if Sony Ericsson makes good on a recent patent application to break 'em into multiple pieces? The basic idea is to make the phone's body independent of the display itself, and while the app doesn't do a particularly stellar job of explaining why this is valuable, we gather from the drawings and diagrams that you'd flip the screen between front and back depending on whether you're using the phone in the open or closed position. The pivoting clamshell design in devices like
Samsung's FlipShot seems a lot more robust to us, but then again, probably 75 percent of these patent apps never become actual products, so we won't worry about it too much just yet.
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posted Feb 6th 2008 3:55AM
this is a nice patent by Sony Ericsson but I think it is of no use.
http://discussion.treocentral.com/showthread.php?t=33796
I think it's brilliant! As long as they keep all the "brains" in the screen part. People who whine about getting new handsets can simple pull out of one case and pop into another.. if done right you could swap between a candybar phone for day time and a flip phone at night.
Keep it up sammy!
I imagine this is so you can replace pieces separately. upgrade your phone but keep your current screen (or vice versa) and presumably it won't cost an arm and a leg. The more modular the better (as long as it doesn't break up into component pieces every time I drop it).
Umm... Can anyone say Modu? Sure looks like the same thing to me.