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Nokia patent application for tube-like cellphone – redefining the Tube?

Categories: Devices, Nokia
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, June 13th, 2008 at 2:56 PM

Nokia cylinder phone patentIt looks like Nokia’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]

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  • Raidium

    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! :razz: lol. Wow… why tube? :lol:

  • Will Park

    I dunno if I want something that was holding toilet paper in the bathroom pressed up against my ear, but to each his own :D

    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.