New Nokia Patent

June 21, 2008 · Filed Under Innovations · Comment 

This new Nokia patent must be one of the weirdest cellphone patents recently. How this crazy phone exactly works? As you can see in the picture above, this concept employs something called a Jacobs Ladder flipping hinge arrangement. The interesting thing is that piece of movable material (called the ribbon in the patent) that you see in between the screen and the keypad. According to the patent, the phone will have two User Interfaces, depending on the position of the ribbon. In the first position, the device acts like a phone while in the secod position, it reveals a camera module (placed on the back) and the UI changes to one suited for operating a camera.

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