Sony Ericsson has recently applied for a patent for what they have termed “Detachable Housings for a Wireless Communication Device”. This new idea which aims at loading a lot more features into a phone and still keeping it portable has two housings which can be detached from each other. One of the housings for the phone has the user interface devices such as the keypad, keyboard, joystick, touchpad etc. and others like the camera and GPS device while the other housing will have a display and a few user buttons and will house the battery and memory card. The screen is also meant to be detachable so you can switch it to whichever housing you’re using.
When you separate them, the housings communicate with each other through Bluetooth. The design has been conceived keeping clamshell phones in mind at the moment. However it is not limited to clamshells and can also be used on sliders. The housings have also been designed such that they can be put together in different ways such as the screen being on the inside or on the outside of the phone. Though this concept has potential and it could mean that you could keep the bulky part hidden away and whip out the other housing whenever you need it, I am quite doubtful about how practical it is. Whether it can withstand repeated removal and assembling and whether it is convenient is something we’ll know only after the brains behind this concept turn it into a phone.
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