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RIM Patents the customizable rotating keyboard keys

kurnia | September 14, 2011 | 0 Comments

RIM Patents the customizable rotating keyboard keys. No details available if this is physical keyboard or the virtual keyboard for toucschreen Blackberry Smartphones. But looking on the design it looks like a virtual keyboard, CMIW. Here’s how RIM describes this new patents:

A customizable keyboard for a handheld electronic device is provided. The keys of the keyboard are rotatable, either individually or in groups, either under manual control of a user of the device or by means of one or more micro-motors or solenoids controlled by a microprocessor running software on the device. The keyboard may be integrated in the device or may be detachable therefrom.