____/ Mark Kent on Friday 07 March 2008 22:30 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> RIM out to patent BlackBerry slider
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| What do you get if you mesh a dual-orientation handset together with a
>>| slide-out keyboard and a tracker ball? Potentially, the next BlackBerry
>>| from Research in Motion (RIM), if its latest patent application is anything
>>| to go by.
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/03/05/rim_blackberry_patent_tracker_ball_keyboard/
>>
>> Gosh. This is ridiculius. First to file or first to be the 'genuis' that
>> thinks about a keyboard *gasp* that slides or folds?
>>
>
> My Psion 5mx had a sliding keyboard.
>
> This stuff is insane - how can anyone even consider that these things
> are anything other than natural developments on current technology.
>
> There is nothing /technical/ to these things, they're just moving the
> bl**dy peripherals around.
>
> How long before Audi patents lights on the front of a car?
Or sliding candy dispensers...
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