palmOne patents handheld with flexible dual-sided display
They originally filed for this over four years (when they were still called Palm), but palmOne was just granted a patent for a "compact personal digital assistant (PDA) and cellular telephone" with a flexible dual-sided display that folds up when you want to use it as a phone and unfurls in all its glory when you need a little more screen real estate for working. So does that mean there's a Treo with one of these in our future? Not necessarily; companies file patents all the time for products that, for one reason or another, they never end up pursuing (though are always happy to sue over). And given palmOne's rather, uh, sluggish pace of innovation lately, even if they are working on something like this it'd probably still be a few more years before it'd ever see the light of day.