Now here’s something we haven’t seen before. Sony Ericsson has issued a patent for a mobile phone with a detachable screen. How wonderfully different indeed but really, what is the benefit of such a design?
To be honest, we can’t really think of any one thing that would make this sort of design a killer handset. Maybe the ability to have the screen as some sort of touchscreen MP3 player that can be detached from the rest of the phone might be quite nifty but not really the sort of thing that would make us want one more than say, a W760 or a Nokia N95.
Either we are lacking imagination or this thing really is as pointless as it looks. Our guess is that it is unlikely this thing will ever come to market. We’re humble here are Pocket Picks however, so if any of you brightsparks fancy proving us wrong with your ideas about what this could be used for then we are all ears.
(Via Unwired View)
It could, as the Unwired article suggests, be intended a cartridge system, allowing for more hardware options in small phones. To watch a movie, using headphones, you might just want a big bright display. Later you might trade screen size for a really good camera module or (farily) powerful speakers that wouldn’t fit inside the phone together with the movie display. It could also open a possible aftermarket allowing you to add features to a phone you already own,