Nokia illustrates dry patent with bizarre concept phone

by Chris Ziegler, posted Oct 9th 2007 at 3:03AM

Okay, straight up, this patent is pretty meaningless to us; it details some mumbo jumbo about loading a user interface onto a device via an expansion card (wireless is specifically mentioned, though it doesn't seem specific to that). That in itself is a little too boring to bother noting, at least until it materializes into a cool feature on a device we can actually purchase. What does catch one's eye, though, is the weird phone thingy Nokia uses to illustrate the patent. Seriously, what is this -- a Samsung UpStage embedded in the center of a L'Amour? Can this please never be produced, Nokia? Promise?

[Via Gearfuse]

Filed under: Software, Nokia, Misc

Tags: nokia, patent, ui, user interface, UserInterface, uspto

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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Guilhem @ Oct 9th 2007 4:22AM

Well, the link given here points to a Nokia patent of a similar concept ...

Any link for the LG patent ?

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Jamar @ Oct 9th 2007 7:39AM

The patent itself sounds interesting, though, especially combined with the fact that the Google Phone is just software and not hardware.

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lassi @ Oct 9th 2007 6:43PM

i _think_ that the patent is about expansion things like an extra keypad, and specificially that they keypad(ot other expansion, like a gamepad? touchpad?) itself has the software needed to interact with the device it's connected to.

or something similar.. would explain the picture a bit? if the expansion is the pad you see at the bottom.

otherwise the patent doesn't make sense(booting from mmc isn't that new)...

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Jason @ Oct 10th 2007 9:11AM

This looks like a dual slide thumboard handset.

Slide it length-wise to reveal the numeric keypad, slide it width-wise (ala TYTN II) to reveal the full thumboard and 2.8" screen?

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