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AssigneeNokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
InventorsAndrew Julian Gartrell, Alastair Stuart Curtis, Tanja Finkbeiner
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A compact device and method for communication and entertainment needs that include combining various functions performed by different keypads and units into a single pad or unit. The device includes circuitry with transceiver capabilities, a chassis, a display, two arms secured to the chassis that can rotate from an open position to a closed position, and a user-interface that provides the user with navigational control and image conversion. The method for reducing the number pads on a keypad of the device, which has the circuitry, includes providing a chassis for securely holding the circuitry, securing a user-interface to the chassis, coupling the user-interface to the circuitry, limiting rotation of the user-interface to a first range of rotational motion using a locking mechanism to provide navigational control, and releasing the locking mechanism to allow rotation of the user-interface beyond the first range of rotational motion to provide image conversion.
A device having circuitry, which includes transceiver and multimedia functions, that allows a user to transmit and receive information, the device comprising:
A method of reducing the number pads on a keypad of a device having circuitry, which includes transceiver and multimedia functions, the method comprising:
A device having a chassis for securely holding electronic circuitry, which includes transceiver capabilities and multimedia functions, that allows a user to transmit and receive information, the device comprising a user-interface in the form of a navigation key with embedded camera, the user-interface rotatably secured to the chassis, and coupled to the electronic circuitry for providing the user with navigational control in a navigation mode and image conversion in an image conversion mode, wherein movement of the user-interface provides navigation control in navigation mode and camera movement in image conversion mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.