By Thilak March 19, 2008

Apple Patent Reveals Flip-Phone iPhone

iPhone is sleek, but the candybar form factor doesn’t appeal everyone. Apple needs a variety of form factors before they can dream of taking over the phone industry. Recent "dual sided trackpad" patent filed by Apple talks about one such possibility – flip phone or cam shell.

iphone camshell patent

The patent illustrates a design, which separates the display and the capacitive touch sensor array into two units. The touch sensor array is actually a translucent (or perhaps transparent) panel, which is touch-sensitive on both sides. The two units are connected with a hinge. When you close the device, the transparent touch panel is covering the display unit, and can be used as an ordinary iPhone. Unwired View has some Photoshop mockups of the patent:

Photoshop Mockup of iPhone Camshell

PS: Yeah, even I am drooling over the sexiness of the design.

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Discussion

Comments for “Apple Patent Reveals Flip-Phone iPhone”

  • common sense guy
    this is quite idiotic!!!!! who is going to want an additional touch piece on an already touch phone!!!! This is the dumbest thing I have ever heard of. So a way for Apple to sell more phones is to make their phone bigger? Wow how funny is that?
  • You've gotta love publicly viewable documents. I might actually get an i-phone if they follow through with this idea -- looks cool as all hell.
  • Simply stunning though it's pretty hard to see how well it'll work from those pictures.

    I guess only time will tell.
  • Very cool. I have had no interest in iPhones thus far, but this would definitely make me think twice about that decision. Looking at it, I figured the clear part would be useless, or some kind of plastic cover...but then I saw they had numbers on it, so apparently not.
  • i'm staring at my nokia n70, hell i want that iPhone too!
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