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Samsung files patent application for mobile phone with built-in cradle/kickstand

Categories: Samsung
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, August 26th, 2007 at 7:16 PM

Samsung is all about making life as convenient as possible for their customers. They’ve got fertility monitoring down. Their gaming phones are trick. Easy GPS directions? Yep, they’ve got that too.

Now, the South Korean patent application masters have come up with another cool idea. If they get their way, Samsung may soon be pushing mobile phones  with built-in cradle/kickstands. The latest patent application to surface at the USPTO shows a mobile phone whose battery can swivel out to help prop up the phone on a desk, table, or other flat surface.

Samsung patent application for battery cradle/kickstand

The battery becomes more than just a power source, it becomes a super-functional part of the phone’s design. We like it.

We’ll see if Samsung brings something like this to market.

USPTO source

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...