Palm’s Foldable Cellphone - more than meets the eye
Imagine a candy bar cellphone that you unfold to become a palmtop. This idea, brought to you by Palm, Inc. (patent application 12/266,041) allows you to have a decent sized palmtop computer and cellular telephone in one device. Palm states that by “utilizing flexible display technology, both a PDA and a cellular telephone are incorporated into one device.” The key here is undoubtedly the flexible display technology.
The parent patent application of this was filed way back in 2004. So it seems Palm has been working on this concept for quite sometime now. Anyone seen a prototype? With the Palm Pre currently in the limelight, it may be a while before we see this product (if ever).
