Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Iphone clamshell

iPhone Patent


The patent is for a multi touch interface that would be usable from BOTH sides of the screen, making it active whether the clamshell iPhone is in the open or closed position. This also gives the user a three screen functionality and interaction which makes for some rather interesting design possibilities (see the mockup below).

ClamPhone Mockup


And such an idea won’t kill the long awaited business iPhone either. Much like the Shuffle and the iPod Nano didn’t replace their grandaddy iPod, there’s plenty of room in an iPhone universe for a more compact, and yet still functional cousin.

1 comment:

AbHi.... said...

Hey guys i think this looks much like the phone I have, I mean Ming.
Moto ming is somewhat simililar and is a flip phone. Ming also has a mock crystal cover that has to be opened before the touch screen can be used.
All i want to say is that design of this Clam shell baby is somewhere taken from the present market designs.
Hey any ways i appreciate the idea of having a multi touch screen panels, that too transparent ones.