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Apple's Dual Trackpad Phone - iPhone Flip
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iPhone lovers may have a clam in their future. Patents have been filed for an iPhone design that opens like a clamshell to make a “dual sided trackpad.”
That means you can access the interface from both front and back of the phone, and, when you want to dial number, all you have to do is draw the digits on the pad. It will be useable whether open or closed, plus double the screen space for widgets and information.
In the open mode, the transparent trackpad can easily be made to display the standard T9 keypad and other symbols. That can be accomplished by making polarized number and symbol markings that can only be seen when the trackpad is open. Or they can be implemented as tiny LED’s.
When needed, you can keep both sides of the cover/trackpad touch-active at the same time. Thus having “six degrees of freedom” for control, and enabling 3D gestures on the device. Standard multi-touch gestures along “XY” axis on one side of trackpad, adding “Z” axis for the touch events on the other.
This dual sided trackpad approach can be applied to media player functionality as well. When media player mode is selected and cover is closed, it works just like iPod Touch does - media controls on the screen and you control it via touch/gestures.
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