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Going dual-screen (http://www.engadget.com/tag/dualscreen,smartphone/) is really the nuclear option for smartphone design -- it's what you use to draw attention when your regular, single-screen phones aren't thriving. We're at once unsurprised and appreciative, then, that BlackBerry has applied for a patent on a dual-screen phone concept that hasn't gone further than a filing. As shown, it would embrace the familiar concept of running separate apps on each screen, with a slight twist: it could recognize touch gestures that span both displays, such as a pinch to switch app positions. Naturally, it could recognize distinct gestures on only one side or put a keyboard on one display for typing on the other. Given BlackBerry's current design (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/30/blackberry-z10-review/) directions (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/30/blackberry-q10-hands-on/) and very different gesture concepts (http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/30/blackberry-os-10-review/), the application is more of a what-might-have-been than any kind of roadmap. It's just as well when many twin-screen smartphones haven't exactly panned out (http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/13/kyocera-echo-review/).
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Source: USPTO (http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/PTO/search-adv.html&r=13&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=(20130307.PD.+AND+(%22Research+In+Motion%22.AS.))&OS=PD/20130307+AND+AN/%22Research+In+Motion%22&RS=(PD/20130307+AND+AN/%22Research+In+Motion%22))
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