Nokia has a laugh with cylindrical cellphone patent application

You kvetch enough about that ultrathin candybar taking up too much room in those über-tight Emo-style jeans -- we know you'd throw a fit if you had to tote around a mobile akin to a rolling pin. Nevertheless, that's not stopping Nokia's wildly imaginative R&D team from throwing out a patent app for a cylindrical cellphone. Granted, we are digging the movable materials and the potential for a fairly wide display, but unless we get some sort of spray can holster from The Home Depot, how else are we supposed to carry this thing without embarrassing ourselves?

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 13th 2008 10:41AM]

Perhaps the actual phone that would come out of this would be much smaller, say the size of a pen, which still probably wouldn't be a good idea to keep in your pocket (increased risk of scrotum puncture, you know).

[keithwwalker Posted Jun 13th 2008 4:51PM]

The ladies will love it on vibrate mode....

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 14th 2008 7:14AM]

does it write too? :P
put a rollerball on the bottom of that baby