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RIM grabs the most absurd QWERTY keyboard patent
USPTO Patent Application 20080318617 should go down in the history of patents as the most absurd QWERTY keyboard. Okay, this is how it works — In the original position it looks like a normal alphanumeric keypad and then there are two hinges on the left and right edges that open to reveal four columns of keys (two on each side) that would convert it into a QWERTY keypad! Has anyone stopped to even ponder how uncomfortable it’d be to us the column of keys that are hanging off either edge of the phone? And we’re not yet objecting to the fact that it is a half-QWERTY keyboard with two alphabets for every key!26 December 2008 in Patents by Rajat AgrawalComment on this post
