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Nokia Patent Confirms N99 Slider

Tricky Nokia. Thought they could get away with their secret N99 slider that not only houses a QWERTY keyboard, but also a widescreen display and an 8-megapixel camera. Well, the folks at Unwired View dug up this patent that jibes with earlier rumors. It even shows the addition of a twisty number pad. Looking good, all we need now are some more "leaked" shots. – Louis Ramirez

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11:28 AM on Thu Mar 22 2007
By Louis Ramirez
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Geisrud at 09:38 AM on 03/22/07
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IMHO they should make the screen a bit bigger by making the bezel smaller on the top (earpiece) end. It looks funky off-center the way it is.
brazil101 at 09:43 AM on 03/22/07
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These phones are getting so sliding that answering will be as hard as solving a Rubik's cube.
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Solving a Rubik's Cube is easy - just paint all the sides the same colour.
JBreakwell at 09:54 AM on 03/22/07
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Looks good, yer i think the screen needs to be bigger to, but the wasy the number pad slides round to, making it an almost full keyboard si kinda cool, 8MP camera is better than mine lol, bet there isnt any optical zoom though!
kevininstereo at 10:25 AM on 03/22/07
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Just what the N95 is missing, qwerty. If they sneak a gps chip in there like their other new phones.. it's mine.
Tim Faulkner at 10:54 AM on 03/22/07
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I would imagine this design never reaches reality. Why? How does your right thumb USE the QWERTY keyboard when it's 1.5-2 inches further away from the keyboard than the left hand?

This seems basically unuseful and overly complex just to approximate a standard keyboard but that will almost never be used for number data entry.

It would be best if the numpad slid IN or folded back.
Sunatic at 12:14 PM on 03/22/07
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i've been coming on gizmodo everyday for the past months waiting for this... now i know what my next cellphone will be....a soon as it's out it's mine :)