17 December 2007

Innovative triple slider idea from Nokia!

Wow, that’s all I can say, incredible activity; those guys from Nokia research labs are extremely productive nowadays, patent by paten, day by day, I should start a dedicated about Nokia patents blog ;)

Anyway, as you may have already know, Nokia N95 was the first phone that features innovative Nokia dual sliding form factor.

This unique dual sliding feature allows moving the top part in two directions, standard (up) to reveal classic numeric keypad and the most interesting, it also slides down to reveal 4 multimedia buttons arranged in the row that can be used for controlling multimedia playback, audio and video.

From other hand, on some other brands two way slider allowing having both, numeric keypad and QWERTY keyboard which is maybe even better solution especially for those that types a lot.

Now Nokia goes one step further and filed patent that reveals the triple sliding form factor or maybe I should call it multi layer form factor ;) I guess that you’ll agree with me that it looks great on the paper, multimedia keys, classic keypad, QWERTY keyboard and finally the huge high-resolution touch screen over it, simply amazing; one device that features all possible input methods which one to use is up to you.

Nokia N95 dual way slider is already cloned by some leading manufactures, Samsung's i450 is nice example and I guess that Nokia with this huge effort on patents lately trying to stop it in future.