{"id":196835,"date":"2010-01-19T01:10:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T06:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/19\/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays\/"},"modified":"2010-01-19T01:10:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T06:10:05","slug":"nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/196835","title":{"rendered":"Nokia patent application points to flexible phone displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-adv.html&amp;r=3&amp;p=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PG01&amp;S1=nokia.AS.\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2010\/01\/nokia-patent-01-18-2010.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>It may still be quite a ways from realizing its ambitious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/02\/25\/nokias-nanotech-morph-goes-on-display-signals-melting-devices\/\">Morph concept<\/a>, but it looks like Nokia has been toying around with the idea of flexible displays as of late, as evidenced by a just-published patent application (first filed back in 2008). Covering a &#8220;user interface, device and method for a physically flexible device,&#8221; the application details (among other things) how a flexible display might be used on a phone to do things other than make it more portable. Most interestingly, that includes bending the phone into a particular shape to perform a specific task &#8212; Nokia suggests rolling it into a can to search for a bar or pub, or bending it into a bowl to search for a restaurant. Not exactly the most imaginative examples, to be sure, although we&#8217;re sure Nokia will have plenty of time to come up with some more interesting uses before any such phones actually hit the market.<\/p>\n<p>[Thanks, Anand]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/01\/19\/nokia-patent-application-points-to-flexible-phone-displays\/\">Nokia patent application points to flexible phone displays<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\">Engadget<\/a> on Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:15:00 EST.  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