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CardJoe · 18th Mar 2008, 07:41

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/03...creen_iphone/1

Apple has filed for a patent covering a new iPhone incarnation which features a flip-out double-sided trackpad alongside an LCD display: could it be an iPhone Nano in the works?

Faulk_Wulf · 18th Mar 2008, 08:14

Ugly. As. Sin.

Glider · 18th Mar 2008, 08:21

Once Apple changes it's strategy for the iPhone I'd start considering using it... But chances are slim that I'd actually buy one...

DXR_13KE · 18th Mar 2008, 09:14

and of course, they should make this mobile phone MODERN, as in 3G.....

rjkoneill · 18th Mar 2008, 09:57

i have 3g on my phone
and i NEVER use it

way i see it with a flip top iphone- more to go wrong
its just a posers party piece, so i leave it alone

DXR_13KE · 18th Mar 2008, 10:39

well, if it is marketed as an "internet communications device" and runs on snail internet.... it is not that good, is it?

will. · 18th Mar 2008, 11:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faulk_Wulf

Ugly. As. Sin.

Yea, and all patents are always beautifully designed exact representations of the final product so that all the mac fanboys know what they are going to be buying in 6 months time without any need for hype...

Fod · 18th Mar 2008, 11:25

ZOMG. a company has filed a patent for something that may (or may not) be implemented at some indeterminate time in the future! EXCITEMENT!

point: companies, including apple, file patents all the time. most of them don't mean anything.

Nexxo · 18th Mar 2008, 13:02

Quote:

Originally Posted by Faulk_Wulf

Ugly. As. Sin.

Yeah, just look at what aesthetic monstrosities other Apple products have always turned out to be.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rjkoneill

way i see it with a flip top iphone- more to go wrong
its just a posers party piece, so i leave it alone

Yeah, Motorola flip-phones have been nothing but trouble too. No hang on, they haven't. Their hinges never break and the wiring never fails. My four year-old Razr is still as tight and solid as ever. Gosh, do you think that since the original Startac flip-phone of nearly 10 years ago, they might have perfected the system?

At least Apple's ideas are innovative. Perhaps you are just having difficulty shifting paradigms without a clutch.

Da_Rude_Baboon · 18th Mar 2008, 15:14

I wouldn't exactly call a flip phone innovative.

The_Beast · 18th Mar 2008, 18:50

that is ugly

its own mother couldn't love that thing

yodasarmpit · 18th Mar 2008, 19:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by The_Beast

that is ugly

its own mother couldn't love that thing

The diagram is a technical representation of the concept, not the manufactured final product.

completemadness · 18th Mar 2008, 19:58

so this is different from a DS because it has a touch screen on both sides of 1/2?

Seems unnecessarily expensive and complex

18th Mar 2008, 07:41	#1
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Da_Rude_Baboon Ultramodder Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Aberdeen Posts: 1,386	I wouldn't exactly call a flip phone innovative.

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18th Mar 2008, 19:58	#13
completemadness Hypermodder Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 887	so this is different from a DS because it has a touch screen on both sides of 1/2? Seems unnecessarily expensive and complex