Nokia has filed a patent application with the US Patent Office for a flexible mobile phone with motion recognition technology. A patent application entitled user interface, device and method for a physically flexible device talks about the possibility of bending a handset into various shapes such as a shape of can, bowl or a roof for triggering shortcuts. Nokia has introduced a further modifier in the shape of motion-recognition. Alternatively the handset could assign different modifiers to different corners being bent initially, or indeed the position, angle, speed or sharpness of the bend. The point at which the phone is bent could be used to select on-screen graphics rather than requiring a traditional touch-screen. Nokia had earlier said that such technologies will be the norm by 2015, the Tech Rumors Daily writes.
