Nokia's patent application looks at things from a different angle

by Thomas Ricker, posted Nov 23rd 2007 at 8:01AM

Nokia's back with another USPTO filing. This time, they're vying for rights to this dual-display flip -- aka, a "foldable electronic apparatus." Open at say, 160-degrees and the bottom panel is readied for touch-screen input. Open fully and the display extends across both panels. This filing, like the new S60 interface, shows that Nokia's done a 180 themselves. Remember, it was only 5 months ago that they were questioning the value of touch-screens for consumers.

[Via Unwired View]

Filed under: Handsets, Nokia

Tags: nokia, patent, touch-screen, touchscreen

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namtastic @ Nov 28th 2007 2:30PM

Well, it *was* the GM of Mobile Devices who said that. Mobile Devices oversees the XXXX models that do the volume sales for Nokia and land all across the world, esp. in emerging nations. Of course he'd question a touchscreen's value. Now if it had been the GM of Multimedia (re: the group that runs the Nseries models), I bet it would have been a different story.

Truth is, he's right. If your value of a phone is that it connects you with other people, a touchscreen is not a necessity, adds drain to a battery, add costs to manufacture and repair, etc. etc.. But if you're talking about high-end, luxury lines of phones that need to make people feel good at the same time, that's a wholly different ballgame, and is why Anssi seemed perfectly happy "copying what's good in the world." ;)

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