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A Nokia application to the US Patent and Trademark Office has revealed its work on a handset that’s operated by cranks - no, not grumpy office-worker types - and which looks suspiciously like the troubled Sidekick Slide. Nokia_patent Nokia cranks things up a notch The handset looks about the size of the iPhone, but Nokia’s …

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  1. Marc Lawrence
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    Bayliss

    So this is not the start of the clockwork battery / mobile revolution we have been waiting for... apparently...

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    They just cant seem to better the PSION Series 5 mechanism can they.

    They just cant seem to better the Psion Series 5 opening/closing mechanism can they.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Err prior art..

    Can you apply a patent to a rack and pinion motion invented oooo sometime around the era of the pyramids?

    Oh sorry forgot, may have word computer or phone tagged to it....

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  4. Edwin

    @Marc

    Hmmm - I regularly spend considerable time away from power outlets, so bought a freecharge mobile phone charger/emergency battery combo.

    It takes a substantial bit of cranking (using quite a lot of force) to charge the internal battery (in turn charging the phone) - I suspect there's not a lot of market there - too much effort involved.

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  5. TeeCee Gold badge
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    Can't resist.....

    Is this for making crank calls?

    I think that this is a Nokia wind-up.

    Fast taxi please.

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  6. Andrew J. Winks
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    Be very a-frayed

    It is nice to see that they have numbered all the positions of the wires that will break through constant flexing.

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  7. Richard Guthrie
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    Design f aw

    Do they n t rea ise that the E g ish anguage has twe ty six etters i it

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    Re: Psion 5 mechanism

    Hear hear! Nothing beats the Psion's design. Even the 3 series is outstanding in terms of the folding mech. Shame about the flexies though.

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