What’s in the mind of Samsung? They’ve just applied for the patent for a Clamshell phone to also work as a joystick. Not too sure, how this is going to work. But in the attached picture, it shows that the hinge between the screen and the keypad is flexible enough, to let you hold the keypad portion to twist it to and from many angles. Which is exactly how a joystick works for gaming. My guess is this would be a wireless joystick that works either in a Bluetooth or WiFi manner or even wired via USB cable, to communicate with your game console. I appreciate what Samsung has done. They seem to be contributing plenty of ideas to twist around the body of the cellphone, just like what they’d done last month, patented the antenna of the cellphone to work as a USB charger.
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August 16th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
[...] Samsung seems to be pretty aggressive in integrating new applications into cellphones. I really appreciate their work. We’ve learned before couple of new patents from Samsung, such as the cellphone’s antenna as USB charger, or the cellphone itself is flexible enough to be a joystick for game. And what’s more? Samsung, this time is absolutely worth a praise, it’s filing a patent for an application that works on your cell phone that allows you to monitor your wife’s or your GF’s fertility. [...]