Samsung files patent for sweep-wing cellphone keyboard

SamSam

#1 – 6:46 AM July 9, 2009

Um, what?? Where do you hold the thing? Do you have to hold it by the flaps when typing?

I can't imagine using that, but I guess they've probably done some usability testing.

KitWorks

#2 – 7:04 AM July 9, 2009

@SAMSAM

I'm with you, that looks super awkward. But then again,w hen has usability testing ever influenced phone design?

Anonymous Anonymous

#3 – 10:01 AM July 9, 2009

I'd assume your palms go around the rounded edges and your thumbs would be the apendages pressing buttons, kind of like a video game controler. But depending on the weight of the phone and the thin-ness(?) of the keyboard I'd imagine it would be very fragile.

RedShirt77

#4 – 10:57 AM July 9, 2009

Why not have them swing down and form an actual keyboard at the bottom rather then two half keyboards?

kaiza

#5 – 3:22 AM July 10, 2009

Because then it would look more like the Kittyhawk than a blocky Tomcat. *ZZZZzzzzooooooOOOOMMMM*PEOW*PEOW*PEOW*

joebrown

#6 – 4:34 AM July 10, 2009

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Pantograph

#7 – 7:46 AM July 10, 2009

My guess is that you lay the phone down on a flat surface and then extend the keyboard before typing.

Chrs

#8 – 3:21 PM July 10, 2009

It may be awkward, but it's a fuckin' swing-wing! One can only imagine if Top Gun had come out last year.

cha0tic

#9 – 7:11 AM July 13, 2009

Is it just me, or does it appear that those 'swing wings' won't fit in the body of the phone.