A new patent from RIM has made its way to the public domain which suggests that the company is developing a new Blackberry phone that will come with a separate numeric keypad and a QWERTY keyboard.
However, at present, it’s difficult to explain the form factor of this device. The engineers who have filed the patent explain that this model of the phone is to offer an easy way to use the keyboard and keypad in both the landscape and portrait formats. They write,
“In a first aspect, a handheld electronic device, such as a smartphone, has a first device member and a second device member that are connected via a connector. The second device member is rotatable about a rotation axis that is canted relative to an axis of the second device member. As a result, when the second device member is rotated between a first position and a second position, its orientation changes. This may facilitate, for example, switching the handheld electronic device between a text entry mode and a telephone mode. “
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