A two-way sliding phone with both a QWERTY and numeric keypad is hardly anything to marvel at in an age where less is more. But a three layer slider phone looks interestingly complex enough to consider. Nokia just filed a patent for a layered mobile device featuring a QWERTY keyboard , a numeric keypad, and a controller for games. The last two layers are designed to move in two directions (see illustration above), making it possible for you to use the QWERTY keyboard and numeric keypad at the same time. I know that patents aren’t a guarantee that the actual product will materialize, but I’d love to see Nokia pull off a user-friendly triple-slider phone in the flesh. On one hand, I’m curious about how a “layered mobile device” is supposed to work and what it can do. On the other hand, do you really need THREE layers on a mobile phone? Especially if the layers are pretty much just keypads and controls.
[via mobilewhack]
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