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"Someone in RIM (probably someone high up) apparently said, \"Hey, you know what'd be great? A candybar Pearl that's narrower for no apparent reason,\" which caused a team of engineers with advanced degrees to spring into action and craft this doozy of a patent app. The concept is that you start off with a numeric keypad slapped onto a handset that's too narrow to handle even an abbreviated SureType configuration, and when the time comes to type, you swing out ridiculous wings that house the extra keys you need. Obviously, we have no good excuse for giving RIM a hard time about this until it appears on an actual product -- a doomed-for-failure product, may we add -- but you think they could've just saved the application fees on this one, you know?[Via Cellpassion]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/26/rim-patents-a-keypad-with-wings/>