Let me be the first to take a few shots at this.
"Fawcett, Mitch" wrote:
> I have several Palm's and mine all have one thing in common. They all have
> a clam-shell cover that flips up when I'm working.
What is the future of the clam shell? Is it going to stay with future devices?
> I've been staring at
> this valuable piece of real estate for months (the inside of the clam-shell
> that is) and I've started thinking what a great idea it would be if there
> was a second display screen built into it.
You need to consider cost and also the electrical connection to the
motherboard. Plus whenever you create a device with an LCD on the inside of
the cover that is flipped-up, there is a patent royalty that is enforced.
Can't remember the entity holding the patent right now.
Not to mention that it would be the first Palm device beyond the 160x160
resolution and who knows how much code would break. But then, if you have
legacy apps run at top or bottom pane via an OS switch and have original code
be "multi-pane aware" it may work. In fact this is the most painless way of
going beyond 160x160 that I can think of.
> Especially for P7 apps. I could
> use the lower screen for navigation, sending requests etc, and the upper
> screen would display results. C'mon...somebody build one!! I want one!
To start the idea in the current h/w you can write an app that flips the
windows so it shows: requests, results or half of each. A hardware button
could rotate the display options. Cool idea!
