RIM has submitted a patent for a garage door like keypad on their Blackberry phones. Upon reading this, it was an instant "why has no one thought of this before?!?" type of feeling. The idea sounds excellent. You show the keys that you need when you need them and hide the rest to give you more screen real estate.
Think about it, when you're writing a message, you can display the full QWERTY keyboard, but when you're watching a video doing something that doesn't require much text input, you can hide all of QWERTYness and have a much larger screen.
Of course there do seem to be some things that could be problematic. How thick will the device need to be for the design to work? What will the keypad feel like? Will the buttons have a nice solid feel or will there be a lot of flex?
Either way, this is a pretty crafty idea and I guess time will only tell how it works out.
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