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Cellular Phone Forum / Providers / ATT Wireless / March 2008Clamshell iPhone on the way
Apple's iPhone launch caused a wave of excitement that even now refuses to die down. The company is now planning to ride on this with a "clamshell iPhone". Yes, "clamshell iPhone" which will be smaller -- likely half the size of the iPhone, but will take a couple of years to go to market. A touch-screen patent first filed by Apple in the US in September 2006 has given birth to this speculation about Apple mulling a "clamshell iPhone". The patent application, which has been newly disclosed, contains illustrated features including a transparent dual-sided touch-sensitive trackpad cover; meaning the top of the iPhone is covered with a transparent touch panel which when opened reveals an also touch-sensitive inner side. It also appears from the patent that the "clamshell iPhone" will enable users write in numbers and letters using their fingers. Meanwhile, the patent doesn't talk about any keyboard though it does imply that sensitive controls could be used to create a virtual keyboard > Apple's iPhone launch caused a wave of excitement that even now refuses > to die down. The company is now planning to ride on this with a > "clamshell iPhone". Yes, "clamshell iPhone" which will be smaller -- > likely half the size of the iPhone, but will take a couple of years to > go to market. Source? > > Apple's iPhone launch caused a wave of excitement that even now refuses > > to die down. The company is now planning to ride on this with a [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Source? The source is a so-called "reporter" who is simply guessing based on a recent patent filed by Apple that shows a multi-touchscreen, folding device - a device that looks more like a Nintendo DS, so no doubt an Apple pocket gaming system rumour is floating around too. Patent story on MacRumours: http://tinyurl.com/yo7z2r Apple files numerous patents every year and few of them result in actual products. It's simply part of their normal R&D cycle and safe-guarding their "discoveries". A "clamshell iPhone" is purely web-rumour at this stage, and hopefully stays that way (personally I dislike clamshell phones, people using them always look like Captain Kirk wannabes). Anybody <anybody@anywhere-anytime.com> wrote in news:210320081423088188% anybody@anywhere-anytime.com: > (personally I dislike clamshell phones, people using > them always look like Captain Kirk wannabes) You don't like our captain?...... A couple of clamshells could be made to make the Star Trek Communicator contact sound...(c; It was logical for me to like Spock the best..... > Anybody <anybody@anywhere-anytime.com> wrote in news:210320081423088188% > anybody@anywhere-anytime.com: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > It was logical for me to like Spock the best..... It's the never-ending stream of twits who STILL think it's funny (and original) to flip their phone open and say something like "Beam me up Scotty". :-\ Anybody <anybody@anywhere-anytime.com> wrote in news:210320081808208761% anybody@anywhere-anytime.com: > It's the never-ending stream of twits who STILL think it's funny (and > original) to flip their phone open and say something like "Beam me up > Scotty". :-\ I always like to watch the shocked look on their faces, in the mall, when I dematerialize and disappear right before their eyes. You can see it just before the transition as the noise from the transporter grabs their attention. > It's the never-ending stream of twits who STILL think it's funny (and > original) to flip their phone open and say something like "Beam me up > Scotty". :-\ Then I probably shouldn't admit my ringtone is the "woo-wheeee-woo" bosun whistle sound effect from the original series' ship's intercom? (Sure, the 'beep beep' or chirps of the communicator would be more authentic, but you'd never hear them in a loud room!) (And, for the record, I don't use a flip phone or ever uttered the words "Beam me up" into a cellphone.) Discovery Channel aired a cute documentary a couple of years ago called "How William Shatner Changed the World," starring the man himself, that (very tongue and cheekly) made the case that most modern day technology (like the Motorola flip phone) was inspired by, or copied from, Star Trek. > > It's the never-ending stream of twits who STILL think it's funny (and > > original) to flip their phone open and say something like "Beam me up [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > (very tongue and cheekly) made the case that most modern day technology > (like the Motorola flip phone) was inspired by, or copied from, Star Trek. I don't watch the show, but there were promo adverts playing here this week for Boston Legal that had a clip of Shatner's character opening a flip-phone with Star Trek communicator noises. They should then have had the next scene with Shanks' (who Shatner was calling) phone ring with the Stargate movie theme. > Anybody <anybody@anywhere-anytime.com> wrote in news:210320081423088188% > anybody@anywhere-anytime.com: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > It was logical for me to like Spock the best..... This might be for all you guys: http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-a-Star-Trek-Communicator-edition-R AZR/  SignatureTo reply by email, remove the word "space" > This might be for all you guys: > > http://www.instructables.com/id/Create-a-Star-Trek-Communicator-edition-R > AZR/ I'm a geek, but I'm not THAT much of a geek! ;) Besides- my WinMo phone looks more like a tricorder than a communicator... (and not just because it's stinking huge!) ;) > Besides- my WinMo phone looks more like a tricorder than a > communicator... (and not just because it's stinking huge!) ;) It has blinking lights and an egg vibrator on a cord?? > > Besides- my WinMo phone looks more like a tricorder than a > > communicator... (and not just because it's stinking huge!) ;) > > It has blinking lights and an egg vibrator on a cord?? Yes to the blinking lights- flashing green for GSM, yellow for WiFi and blue for bluetooth. While we 're off on this nostalgic tangent, even as a kid I could never understand how Spock could figure out what data was on those square plastic UNLABELED memory chips they shoved into the ship computer. He'd shuffle a stack of red, yellow and orange blank squares, pick one, scrutinize it's empty face and say "the star chart for the Denebian Sector..." and plug it in. Perhaps the label was written in ultraviolet, infrared, or some other color only Vulcan eyes could see... ;-) > Perhaps the label was written in ultraviolet, infrared, or some other > color only Vulcan eyes could see... ;-) Nope. When he was holding it in his hand, he mind melded with it so he could see what it contained.....in his logical mind....(c; He didn't need "HUMAN" labels. > Source? http://www.techtree.com/India/News/Apple_Mulling_a_Clamshell_iPhone/551-8 7835-615.html > Yes, "clamshell iPhone" which will be smaller -- > likely half the size of the iPhone And fanboi-fingers are expected to evolve to half the size, with visual acuity morphing to resolve a postage stamp-sized display. |
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