Microsoft patent reveals idea for a modular phone

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While our smartphones can be used for just about anything these days – checking our email, surfing the web, playing games, watching movies, what if one day we had a smartphone that came with interchangeable parts to accomplish those specific tasks? Well Microsoft has recently filed for a patent for what appears to be the Swiss Army knife of smartphones.

Based on the patent drawing above, it depicts a slider smartphone with the area where a keyboard can usually be found being empty. That space which can be used to attach a QWERTY keyboard can also attach a variety of other modules, such as a gaming controller pad, an extra battery pack and even a secondary display. With Microsoft entering the mobile phone market with Windows Phone 7, we don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine that one day we will eventually start seeing devices like these, but for now we can only imagine.

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