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6 April 2005

A string of US patents filed by Motorola of Illinois outline how the cellphones of the future may operate.

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Fancy a phone that has a full-sized screen, number pad for dialling, qwerty keyboard for emailing and console for gaming – yet is small enough to fit in your pocket? Motorola says it can be done if a screen covers the top of the phone body, while a number pad and qwerty keyboard slide out from underneath like miniature drawers. A third drawer holding a games console is optional (2005/0059438).

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