Clamshell Blog

Cellphone designs that hide the screen when not in use have

traditionally been separated into two designs, the clamshell and the

slider. People have preferred the clamshell because they’re compact,

and others like the slider because they usually have large screens.

Like Pandas, Cellphone’s forced the two to mate for the good of the

species, and out popped the Sliding-Clamshell.

When you flip the phone open, the body becomes a track for the screen

to move up. There’s enough room for the standard keys plus an iPod like

click wheel. This design seems like it will make phones more compact,

but thicker. Is that a sliding-clamshell in your pocket or did you just

have genital enhancement surgery?