The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
was and still is the only handset with a gamepad - the perfect addition
to a handset for gamers, and now the newest patent filed by Sony
suggests that a successor is possible and it will feature not one, but
two slide-out keyboards, according to a filing with the US Patent and
Trademark Office.
So, how does that work and what does it mean? First of all, thus a possible future device could have both a gamepad and a full QWERTY keyboard.
That’s already a big plus for those of you who prefer to have real
feedback from pressing physical keys. And the mechanism to make this
work actually is not all that complicated - the two keyboards just
slideout.
Now, the two sliding mechanism should
allow each of the keyboards to be accessed separately and if Sony nails
it, this will be one handset that will be truly worthy to be called a
transformer. And yes, it seems that in that case the extra thickness
actually won’t be a dealbreaker. How do you like Sony’s idea?
