Nokia patent application for tube-like cellphone – redefining the Tube?
By Will Park on Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 2:56 PM PST In Devices, Nokia
It looks like Nokia (NYSE: NOK)’s got another take on the Nokia Tube. No, it’s not a variant to the Nokia 5800 XpressMedia Tube, we’re talking about this here patent application from Espoo. Proving that there’s no end to patentable ideas, Nokia has applied for a patent on a tube-shaped mobile phone.
The cylindrical handset sports a “ribbon” that can slide up and down the device’s lengthwise axis. There are apparently two different UIs in this device, differentially activated by the “ribbon’s” position – slide it down and the handset works like a traditional cellphone, slide it the other way and you get a camera.
Nifty? Sure. Marketable? Probably not.
[Via: Cellpassion]
Fianlly a cell phone i can use to hold my toilet paper rolls in the bathroom. I’ve always wanted one that could do that!
lol. Wow… why tube? 
I dunno if I want something that was holding toilet paper in the bathroom pressed up against my ear, but to each his own
Maybe Nokia just decided to include a tube-shaped diagram to throw people like us off their trail. A sliding, dual-UI, camera phone sounds like a good idea – but if we’re too busy laughing at the image, we won’t speculate on the future of this patent.